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Terminated in academic year 2007/2008

Special Topics in Physical Chemistry for Electrical Engineers

Type of study Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 619-0025/01
Abbreviation fche
Course title Special Topics in Physical Chemistry for Electrical Engineers
Credits 8
Coordinating department Department of Physical Chemistry and Theory of Technological Processes
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Jana Dobrovská, CSc.

Subject syllabus

Signification of physical chemistry in electrotechnics and electronics. Thermodynamic state function for gases. Fugacity. Real gases. Heat capacities of substances, variation of heat capacities with temperature. Thermodynamic laws, theoretical calculation of reaction heat (enthalpy), variation of reaction enthalpy with temperature. Thermodynamic potentials, Gibbs-Helmholtz equations, chemical potential.

Chemical equilibria: homogeneous, heterogeneous, equilibrium constants. Calculation of equilibrium composition.

Phase equilibria, Gibbs phase rule, classification of systems. Thermodynamic of liquid solutions, Raoult’s law and Henry’s law. Real solutions, activity and activity coefficient. . Thermodynamic functions and models of solutions. Vaporization and distillation. Application of solutions theory on metal alloys. Structure and properties of liquid metals, melting, vaporization, surface tension, viscosity. Crystallisation. Homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation. Distribution coefficients. Segregation process, crystallization, process modelling.

Chemical kinetics: rate of chemical reaction, order of reaction, molecularity and reaction mechanism. Theory of chemical kinetics. Elementary steps in heterogenous reactions. Diffusion mechanism and mathematical description, molecular, molecular, convection and turbulent diffusion. Diffusion and chemical reaction, diffusion limited reactions, external and internal diffusion, diffusion through phase interface.

Surface phenomena and kinetics of reactions. Surface properties of solid components. Physical adsorption and chemisorption. Adsorption isotherms. Gas adsorption kinetics. Surface properties of solutions, application of surface phenomena.

Kinetics of topochemical reactions. Autocatalytic reactions. Industry application of heterogeneous kinetics.

Literature

Atkins,P.W., Physical Chemistry. Fourth Edition, Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1993. 995 p.
Lupis,C.H.P.Chemical Thermodynamics of materials. New York, North-Holland,
1983. 581 p.Atkins,P.W., Physical Chemistry. Fourth Edition, Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1993. 995 p.

Advised literature

No advised literature has been specified for this subject.