ABSTRACT
Chapter 8 presents the properties of gases and gas mixtures including the kinetic theory of gases, proposed by Clerk Maxwell, which forms the basis for establishing ideal gas equation of state useful to determine the properties of ideal gases. It also covers the other equations of state such as the Van der Waals equation of state, Berthelot equation of state, Dieterich equation of state, and Redlich–Kwong equation of state, which are used to determine the properties of real gases. It also presents the compressibility factor—the deviation of real gases from the ideal gas behavior, gas compression—reducing the work of compression, and properties of gas mixtures, internal energy, enthalpy, specific heats, and entropy of gas mixtures.
