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Phase Equilibria and Surface Chemistry

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CHE 210 10 Phase Equilibria and Surface Chemistry

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Method of assessment: End of semester theory examination

15 Lectures

Brief Syllabus:

Introduction to Phase Equilibria: - Components, Phases and Degrees of Freedom, Gibbs Phase rule, Phase transitions, One-component systems, Clausius-Clapeyron equation, P/T diagrams, Triple points, Critical points. Allotropy, Metastable Equilibria, Liquid Crystals and Anisotropic liquids. Two Component Systems. liquid systems, Ideal and real solutions, Zeotropic, and azeotropic distillation of liquid mixtures. Patially and immiscible liquids. Two component solid liquid systems, Eutectic mixtures, Compound formation, Congurent and incongurent melting points, Construction of cooling curves. Miscibility in the solid state. Two component solid solutions. Three Component Systems, Experimental methods for constructing phase diagrams, Ternary systems with water and two water soluble salts. Systems with more than three components. Thermal analysis.

Introduction to Surface Phenomena: - Adsorption and desorption, Surface tension, Comparative description of physisorption and Chemisorption Adsorption Theories: - Adsorption isotherms, Langmuir adsorption isotherm and its applications, Introduction to multilayer adsorption, B.E.T. theory of multilayer isotherm, Introduction to kinetics of unimolecular surface reactions, Langmuir-Hinshelwood mechanism.