Thermodynamics of Mixtures

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Regular lectures using modern teaching aids. The study materials are available to the students in electronic or written form. Auditorium and laboratory exercises, focused on concrete practical cases related to the subject matter delivered at lectures. Work with domestic databases (Laboratory for heating technology, UL FS) and world databases (NIST) of thermodynamic properties of matters, and with software for the determination of thermodynamic properties of matter.

Learning Outcomes

The objective of this course is to provide the students with the fundamental knowledge to be able to understand and thermodynamically describe mixtures and processes involving mixtures.

The students will earn competences enabling them to understand the processes involving bi- and multicomponent mixtures in different states of matter. This will enable them to understand and deepen their work on processes in process engineering, providing them with the foundation for an in-depth study of narrower professional fields of energy and process engineering.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Introduction, mixtures of ideal gases, mixtures of gases and vapors, moist air, Mollier h-x diagram, dry- and wet-bulb temperature; 2. Conservation of mass and energy in psychrometric systems, heating and cooling, mixing of moist air flows, humidification and dehumidification, evaporative cooling, air conditioning, cooling tower, drying; 3. Gibbs free energy and chemical potential, main Gibbs equation; 4. Real mixtures, equations of state for pure matter, equations of state for mixtures; 5. Gibss' phase rule, phase diagrams, chemical potential of real fluids, fugacity and fugacity coefficient, activity and activity coefficient, ideal solutions, excess quantities; 6. Vapor–liquid equilibrium in a mixture, equilibrium and stability; 7. Thermodynamic processes involving mixtures, exergy analysis; 8. Chemical reactions and combustion; 9. Chemical and phase equilibria. 10 Transport properties of matter, databases of thermodynamic material properties of pure matters and mixtures.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
The exam consists of a written part and oral questioning (50%/50%). Laboratory work (100%). Overall grade is from exam/laboratory work (100%/100%).: 100.0%

Bibliography

1] M.J. Morgan, H.N. Shapiro, Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics. 6th Edition, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2007 - selective chapters

[2] K.Stephan, F.Mayinger, Thermodynamik. Band 2: Mehrstoffsysteme un chemishe Reaktionen.

14.neubearbeitete und erweiterte Auflage, Springer, Berlin, 1999 - selective chapters

[3] J.M. Smith, H.C. Van Ness, M.M. Abbot, Introduction to Chemical Thermodynamics. 7th Edition, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2005 - selective chapters

[4] M. Oprešnik, Termodinamika zmesi. 3. predelana izdaja, Fakuleta za strojništvo, Univerza v Ljubljani, Ljubljana 1988.

[5] A. Bejan, Advanced Engineering Thermodynamics. Third Edition, John Wiley &Sons, Hoboken, 2006 - selective chapters

[6] B.E. Poling, J.M. Prausnitz, J.P. O'Connel, The Properties of Gases and Liquids. 5th Edition, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2001 – selective chapters.