CHE602A - Fundamentals Of Chemical Engineering -II

Module on Thermodynamics:

• Review of 1st and 2nd Law of Thermodynamics (including applications).
• PVT relations of pure fluids (cubic EOS, generalized correlations, compressibility factor).
• Thermodynamic properties of pure fluids (Single phase systems: Thermodynamic potentials, Maxwell's relations, residual properties. Two phase systems: Clapeyron equation, Phase diagrams. Generalized property correlations for gases).
• Multi component Mixtures: Partial molar properties, Gibbs Duhem equation, Chemical potential for phase equilibria, Fugacity and fugacity coefficient. The ideal solution and excess molar properties. Activity coefficients and models (Margules, NRTL, Wilson, UNIQUAC).
• Vapor Liquid Equilibrium: multi component phase envelopes, gamma phi formulation, dew point, bubble point and flash calculations, modified Raoult's law, Henry's law.
• Thermodynamic properties and VLE from cubic EOS.
• Other types of phase equilibria: LLE, VLLE, SLE.
• Heat of adsorption, multi component adsorption equilibrium.
• Chemical reaction equilibrium. Module on Reaction Engineering.
• Idealization in chemical reaction engineering.
• Steady and unsteady state operation in idealized reactors.
• Multiple reactions.
• Non elementary reaction kinetics.
• Modeling of Catalytic reaction kinetics.
• External diffusion effects on heterogeneous reactions.
• Diffusion and reaction in porous catalysts.
• Design of fixed bed reactors.