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Course Contents

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.