Thermodynamics II

Course contents

Heat transport:
- Basics of heat transport
- Conduction, convection, thermal radiation and transfer by latent heat

Chemical thermodynamics:
- Thermodynamic description of chemical reactions
- Equilibrium constant (introduction, special GGW constants, temperature and pressure dependence)
- Reaction enthalpies (Hess' theorem, standard enthalpies of formation, determination of reaction enthalpies)
- Mollier diagram and drying
- Electrochemical reactions (redox reactions, electrochemical potential, types of electrodes, reduction potential and electromotive force, electrochemical voltage series, temperature and pressure dependence of the EMF)

Kinetics and catalysis:
- Arrhenius equation
- Reaction order
- Reaction cascades
- Approximations (concept of the rate-determining step, quasi-static approximation)
- Lindemann-Hinshelwood mechanism
- Insight into catalysis (homogeneous catalysis, heterogeneous catalysis, Langmuir-Hinshelwood mechanism, Elay-Rideal mechanism and Sabatier principle)

Spinodal decomposition:
- Prediction of alloying and dealloying behavior by combining thermodynamics and kinetics

Department

Bachelor's program Environmental, Process & Energy Engineering