Course Information:
Course ID: | CHEM 201 |
Type of course: | Required course |
Semester: | Spring |
Credits: | 4 |
ΕCTS: | 6 |
Teaching Hours: | Th=3, E=0, L=6/2 |
Instructor: Professor I. Yentekakis (Faculty Member - EnvEng)
Laboratory Exercises: G. Botzolaki, N. Vakakis
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Course contents:
The states and properties of matter. The Ideal gas and its PVT behavior and relationships. Mixtures of ideal gases; the Dalton’s law. Diffusion of gases and liquids and calculations. PVT behavior of real gases: equations of states; the critical region; the virial and van der Waals equations; the law of corresponding states, etc. Chemical kinetics: rate constant and Arrhenius theory; reaction rate equations; experimental methods in kinetic data acquisition (batch, CST and PF reactors) and determination or reaction order; Reaction mechanism and rate equation; Kinetics and mechanisms of heterogeneous catalytic reactions (Eley-Rideal and Langmuir-Hinshelwood models); Applications for the design of chemical reactors. Thermodynamics: First law and applications; chemical thermodynamics; second law and applications; Enthalpy; Entropy; Gibbs and Helmholtz free energy; chemical potential; chemical equilibrium and calculations. Changes of states: Phases and Phases equilibrium; Liquid-vapor equilibrium and distillation; fractional distillation analysis and design; gas-liquid equilibrium and absorption; gas-solid surfaces equilibrium and adsorption; liquid-liquid equilibrium and extraction. Introduction to electrochemistry and fuel cells.
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Last modification: 31-08-2018