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Physical chemistry for technological practice

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction English
Code 9350-3012/02
Abbreviation FCHTP
Course title Physical chemistry for technological practice
Credits 10
Coordinating department Institute of Environmental Technology
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Kamila Kočí, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

The course focuses on the applications of thermodynamics, phase and chemical equilibria, and reaction kinetics in chemical and environmental technologies. In this context, the following topics are covered:
Thermodynamics - real gases, heat capacities, reaction heats and their temperature dependencies, thermodynamic state functions, enthalpy balances, thermochemistry, irreversible processes, thermodynamic equilibria, applications, thermodynamics of mixtures.
Phase Equilibria - single-component systems, multicomponent systems, intensive equilibrium criteria in condensed systems, liquid-vapor systems, solid-vapor systems, partial molar quantities, chemical potential, solubility of gases in liquids.
Chemical Equilibria - material balances, equilibrium conditions, equilibrium constants, equilibrium compositions, criteria of thermodynamic equilibria, equilibria of chemical reactions and physical processes and the factors that affect them, reactions in dilute solutions, electrolyte dissociation, solubility product.
Electrochemistry - electrolysis, electrodes, galvanic cells, chemical and concentration cells, applications of measuring equilibrium voltages, kinetics of electrode processes.
Chemical Kinetics - reaction rates and methods for their experimental measurement for homogeneous and heterogeneous chemical reactions, catalysis, simultaneous reactions, mechanisms of chemical reactions.

Literature

ATKINS, P.W. Physical Chemistry. Fourth Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. Nebo novější vydání.
• MORTIMER, R.G. Physical Chemistry, 2nd ed. Academic Press, 2000.

Advised literature

• KONDEPUDI, D., PRIGOGINE, I., Moder thermodynamics: From Heat Engines to Dissipative Structures, 1 st ed. Wiley, 1998.
• PRAUSNITZ, J.M., LICHTENTHALER, R.N., de AZEVEDO, E.G. Molecural Thermodynamics of Fluid-Phase Equilibria, 3rd ed. Prentice Hall, 1998.