Week - 1 |
Phase equilibrium in one-component systems |
Week - 2 |
Clapeyron and Clausius-Clapeyron equation. |
Week - 3 |
Basic solution definitions, terms and types |
Week - 4 |
Behaviour of solutions
a. Solution formation from its pure components.
b. Raoult's and Henry's laws.
c. Activity of components in a solution.
d. Gibbs-Duhem equation. |
Week - 5 |
Behaviour of solutions (continued)
a. Change in Gibbs free energy due to formation of a solution.
b. Method of tangential intercepts. |
Week - 6 |
Midterm I |
Week - 7 |
Behaviour of solutions (continued)
a. Application of Gibbs-Duhem relation to determination of activity.
b. The relationship between Henry'sand Raoult's laws. |
Week - 8 |
Behavior of solutions (continued)
a. Regular solutions.
b. Excess properties. |
Week - 9 |
Relationship between solution thermodynamics and binary phase diagrams
a. Gibbs free energy and thermodynamic activity.
b. Double tangent. |
Week - 10 |
Relationship between solution thermodynamics and binary phase diagrams (continued)
a. Criteria for phase stability in regular solutions. |
Week - 11 |
Midterm II |
Week - 12 |
Relationship between solution thermodynamics and binary phase diagrams (continued)
a. Liquid and solid standard states. |
Week - 13 |
Relationship between solution thermodynamics and binary phase diagrams (continued)
a. Determination of phase diagrams of systems, which form ideal solid and ideal liquid solutions, by the melting temperatures and the molar heats of melting of the components. |
Week - 14 |
Relationship between solution thermodynamics and binary phase diagrams (continued)
a. Phase diagrams, Gibbs free energy, and thermodynamic activity. |