Thermodynamics with Chemical Engineering Applications

Elias I. Franses has been a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University for over 30 years. An expert in thermodynamics, he has taught numerous courses on this topic to chemical engineering students of all levels.

1. Introduction and synopsis; 2. Problems and concepts at the interface of mechanics and thermodynamics; 3. Phases, interfaces, dispersions, and the first three principles of thermodynamics; 4. Internal energy, the First Law, heat, conservation of total energy; 5. Equations of state for one-component and multicomponent systems; 6. Applications of the mass and energy balances and the equations of state to several classes of thermodynamic problems; 7. The Second Law, absolute temperature, entropy definition and calculation, and entropy inequality; 8. Further implications of the Second Law. Introduction of Helmholtz free energy, Gibbs free energy, chemical potential, and applications to phase equilibria, heat transfer and mass transfer; 9. Thermodynamic fugacity, thermodynamic activity, and other thermodynamic functions (U, H, S, A, G, μi) of ideal and nonideal solutions; 10. Vapor-liquid equilibria (VLE) with applications to distillation; 11. Gas-liquid equilibria (GLE) and applications to gas absorption or desorption; 12. Applications to liquid-liquid equilibria and liquid-liquid extraction; 13. Osmosis, osmotic pressure, osmotic equilibrium, and reverse osmosis; 14. Third Law and molecular basis of the Second and Third Laws; 15. Some special implications and applications of the First and Second Laws; 16. Chemical reaction equilibria: one reaction; 17. Chemical reaction equilibria: two or more reactions occurring simultaneously; 18. Applications of thermodynamics to energy engineering and environmental engineering.