Ebook: Chemical Thermodynamics

Mona (Jamaica): University of the West Indies, 2004. — 60 p.The object of the present book is to provide an introduction to the principles and applications of thermodynamics for students of chemistry and chemical engineering.Contents
Conservation of energy: the First Law
Spontaneous processes: the Second Law and entropy
Entropy
Further consequences of the Second Law. Free energy
Miscellaneous results. Mathematical aspects of Thermodynamics
Phase equilibria of a pure substance
Thermodynamics of open systems
Homogeneous one-component system
Homogeneous mixtures
General properties of the µ_i
Heterogeneous mixtures: the Phase Rule
Chemical reactions and equilibrium
Mixtures of perfect gases
Thermodynamics of mixing. Chemical potentials
Chemical equilibrium in gas mixtures
Liquid mixtures
Ideal solutions
Raoult’s law. p-x and T-x diagrams
Thermodynamic properties of ideal solutions
Non-ideal solutions
Phase diagrams. Activity
Incomplete miscibility
Dilute solutions
Chemical potentials
Colligative properties
Chemical equilibrium in dilute solutions. Solubility. Activity