CL3010:03
Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
Townsville
Prerequisites: ME2512
39 lectures, 39 tutorials. First semester.
Available to level 3 chemical engineering, chemistry and industrial chemistry students.
Review of conservation of energy law and use of steam tables. Equations of state for pure substances and mixtures. The mathematical development of thermodynamic relations. Thermodynamics of ideal and real gas mixtures. The application of mixing property changes to industrial processes. The estimation of fugacity and activity coefficients using standard correlations and models of the excess Gibbs energy. The prediction of phase equilibrium (vapour-liquid) by hand and using thermodynamic software. Introduction to statistical thermodynamics and molecular modelling.
Learning Objectives:
- to provide students with the ability to apply the first and second laws of thermodynamics to physical and chemical processes;
- to provide students with knowledge of the behaviour of pure fluids and mixtures at equilibrium;
- to apply this knowledge to the design of industrial processes;
- to provide students with the ability to use and critically evaluate thermodynamic software.
Assessment by examination (50%-70%); on-course assessment (30%-50%).
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