ABSTRACT

The book presents concepts and equations of equilibrium thermodynamics or thermostatics. Key features that distinguish this book from others on chemical engineering thermodynamics are: a mathematical treatment of the developments leading to the discovery of the internal energy and entropy; a clear distinction between the classical thermodynamics of Carnot, Clausius and Kelvin and the thermostatics of Gibbs; an intensive/specific variable formalism from which the extensive variable formalism is obtained as a special case; a systematic method of obtaining the central equations of thermostatics with the use of the implicit/inverse function theorems and the chain rule.


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chapter 0|24 pages

Mathematical Preliminaries

chapter 1|43 pages

A Synopsis of Classical Thermodynamics

chapter 2|52 pages

Single Component Fluid–Fundamentals

chapter 3|77 pages

Single Component Fluid–Applications

chapter 4|63 pages

Homogeneous (Single Phase) Mixtures

chapter 5|44 pages

Heterogeneous (Multiphase) Mixtures

chapter 6|50 pages

Reaction Equilibrium