G.J.M. Koper - Introduction To Chemical Thermodynamics

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An introduction to Chemical Thermodynamics<br /><br />This book is aimed at students in the fields of molecular or life science<br />and technology. It introduces thermodynamics as a predictive tool and<br />discusses the spontaneity of chemical reactions and the power that can be<br />obtained from fuel cells.<br />The emphasis of the first part is on applications of the Second Law of<br />Thermodynamics on (bio)chemical processes and the Gibbs energy is<br />introduced as the predictive quantity. The First Law of Thermodynamics is<br />introduced merely to manage the energy resources. The last chapter of the<br />first part deals with the efficiency of processes where the role of<br />entropy is discovered.<br />The second part is devoted to chemical and physical equilibria. The<br />various relations that exist for equilibria are exposed as universally<br />related to the Gibbs energy. Ideal mixing relations and ideal solution<br />relations are constantly being used as a simplified approach to the real<br />situation. In the last chapter of this part, the deviations from ideality<br />are assessed and the magnitude of the fugacity and activity coefficients<br />is critically discussed.<br />The book is also aimed at chemical engineering students. These need to<br />know more about processes and their efficiencies. Therefore the third part<br />of the book is devoted to distributed processes. In the first chapter some<br />important aspects of formal thermodynamics are discussed, in particular<br />the role of entropy to identify equilibrium and stability. The second<br />chapter of this part continues this discussion and introduces the concept<br />of internal entropy production. To discuss these two issues, systems are<br />subdivided into two parts that are not necessarily in equilibrium: the<br />system is inhomogeneous. The last chapter of this part explains how fully<br />inhomogeneous and flowing systems can be dealt with and how entropy<br />production can be managed.<br />The fourth - and new - part of the book contains applications to<br />macromolecular systems where solution properties, binding phenomena and<br />membranes are discussed. This part has been added to provide material for<br />a more advanced course. The topics dealt with in these chapters are<br />relatively modern and appropriate references to the relevant literature<br />are made. The author has tried to present this material from a few<br />unifying concepts so as to demonstrate the analogy between the various<br />treatments in the current literature. Also, the relation to colloid<br />science - even though dealing more with particles than with macromolecules<br />- is discussed.<br />Contents<br />Preface<br />Part I - Processes in Chemistry and Biochemistry<br />1 Overview <br />2 Spontaneity of processes<br />3 Available work<br />4 Energy conservation<br />5 Efficiency and entropy<br />Part II - Chemical and Physical Equilibria<br />6 General aspects of equilibria<br />7 Phase equilibria of pure substances<br />8 Capillary phenomena and adsorption<br />9 Phase equilibria of mixtures<br />10 Mixtures and colligative properties<br />11 Non-ideal mixtures<br />Part III - Distributed Processes<br />12 Fundamentals of chemical thermodynamics<br />13 Irreversible processes<br />14 Flow processes<br />Part IV - Macromolecular Systems<br />15 Macromolecular solutions<br />16 Macromolecular binding equilibria<br />17 Membranes<br />Index<br /><br />http://www.vssd.nl/hlf/d008.htm