Credit Weight: 0.5 Description: First law of thermodynamics. Concepts of work, heat, internal energy, enthalpy, steady state, equilibrium and reversible processes. PVT behaviour of pure substances. Work and heat effects for compression and expansion of ideal and real gases. Virial and cubic equations of state Pitzer’s correlations. Heat engine. Carnot cycle. Second law of thermodynamics. Entropy changes in processes and limitations imposed on energy conversions. Standard states. Heats of reaction, formation and combustion. Heat changes in industrial reactions. Offering: 3-1; 0-0
