Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics I

This course will guide you through chemical engineering thermodynamics, the branch of chemical engineering that is concerned with the energy balances of processes involving heat exchange and work. This course will provide you with the methods required to analyze industrial reactions aimed at transforming, transferring, and storing energy. You will master fundamental issues such as the law of conservation of energy and irreversibility, and you will discuss complex and diverse situations such as the global operation of an industrial plant. You will also have a chance to discuss ideas such as harnessing energy from the surroundings that continuously challenge engineers and are at the heart of our present energetic and environmental concerns and strategies.

The course includes basic elements of classical thermodynamics: The First and Second Laws, the properties of pure fluids, the Ideal Gas Law, the Carnot Cycle, and Balances in Open Systems. The course also focuses on specific applications to chemical engineering such as vapor-liquid equilibrium, mixtures, ideal and non-ideal solutions, miscibility, solubility, reactions, energy and enthalpy balances, and phase and reaction equilibrium.