CX4102 Fluid Phase Equilibria Syllabus:

CX4102 Fluid Phase Equilibria Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

 To impart knowledge on energy, laws of thermodynamics to applications that require quantitative knowledge of thermodynamic properties at macroscopic level
 To gain knowledge about stability and phase transition of thermodynamic systems.
 To impart knowledge about multi component mixtures
 To gain knowledge about phase equilibrium typically encountered in design of chemical processes such as separation operations.
 To impart knowledge about chemical equilibrium

UNIT I BASIC CONCEPTS

Energy and first Law; Reversibility and second Law; Review of Basic Postulates, Equilibrium criteria ,Legendre Transformation and Maxwell‘s relations

UNIT II STABILITY AND PHASE TRANSITION

Stability of thermodynamic systems, first order phase transitions and critical phenomenon, phase rule, single component phase diagrams, thermodynamic properties from volumetric and thermal data

UNIT III MULTICOMPONENT MIXTURES

Partial molar properties, fugacities in gas and liquid mixtures, activity coefficients, Ideal and Nonideal solutions, Gibbs-Duhem equation, Wilson, NRTL, and UNIQUAC equations, UNIFAC method

UNIT IV PHASE EQUILIBRIUM

VLE – Equations of state, corresponding states, Henry‘s Law, lattice theory, criticality, high pressure VLE. Other phase equilibriums-SLE/LLE/VLLE.

UNIT V CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM

Homogeneous gas and liquid phase reactions, heterogeneous reactions – phase and chemical equilibrium

TOTAL:45 PERIODS

COURSE OUTCOMES:

The students will be able to
CO1: Apply the concepts of energy, laws of thermodynamics to applications that require quantitative knowledge of thermodynamic properties at macroscopic level.
CO2: Understand and apply the thermodynamics of phase equilibria in design of chemical processes such as separation operations.
CO3: Relate the theoretical results used to physical systems that convert matter and energy in terms of the laws of thermodynamics.
CO4: Analyze many of the thermodynamic properties of dilute solutions can be derived analytically from statistical formulations.
CO5: Apply the various phase equilibrium models in practical situations

REFERENCES

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2. Rao., Y.V.C., Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics, University Press, Hyderabad,2005
3. Tester, J. W. and M. Modell, Thermodynamics and Its Applications. 3rd Edn. Prentice Hall, New Jersey,1997.
4. Stanely M. Walas., – Phase Equilibria in Chemical Engineering, Butterworth Publishers., 1985.
5. Mats Hillert.,- Phase Equilibria, Phase Diagrams and Phase transformations., 2nd Edn., Cambridge University Press., 2007