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Besides using the DFT approach, other high-level theoretical models have also been developed to probe the kinetic parameters, relevant to SOFC operation. For example, the unity bond index-quadratic exponential potential (UBI-QEP) [104,105] was successfully performed to study several elementary reactions on various transition metal surfaces [106]. This approach generated activation barriers and enthalpy changes for forward and reverse reactions for the formation and dissociation of H20 and OH" species. 

The quantity which measures the enthalpy change upon vaporization is the heat of vaporization. A useful model can be based on the / index alone (equation 18)". ... 

Table 12.1 Definitions of Dimensionless Groups, Thermal Conductivity, T, the Flow Temperature (7 or TJ, the Melt Density, AH the Enthalpy Change, Cp the Heat Capacity, b Exponent of Viscosity Temperature Change, n the Power Law Index, the Viscosity...

In Frame 13, section 13.2 we established the Gibbs function, G, as the index of spontaneous change. Equation (13.10) Frame 13 gave the relationship between G and the enthalpy, H and entropy, S namely ... 

Table I. Enthalpy and Entropy Changes of the Melting and Isotropization Transitions, together with the Crystallinity Index ...

The total changes in entropy and enthalpy (Table I) can be considered to be composed of 2 terms, one accounting for the changes in the energy of interaction with the lattice, the other for the changes in the hydration of the ions. This was discussed earlier by Sherry et al. (10) and by Barrer et al. (2). This gives us the following equations where the index 1 indicates the interaction terms with the lattice, and the index h the hydration terms. 

Microkinetic modeling predicts thermodynamic properties for species and kinetic parameters of elementary steps of a mechanism, as described in subsequent sections. The kinetic parameters, that is, sticking coefficient (5 ) of a species, preexponential factor (Ajp, and activation energy as well as the change in enthalpy (Aff ) and entropy (A5°) in each elementary step at 298 K on Pt(lll) are also presented in Table 8.1. Here, stands for reaction index and f for forward. This mechanism will be used throughout this chapter to illustrate the capabilities of microkinetic modeling tools. 

There are actually a variety of polymer properties that change at the glass transition (modulus, specific volume, enthalpy, entropy, specific heat, refractive index, and dielectric constants), a variety of physical methods to measure the glass transition and, indeed, a variety of ways to define glass transition (5,21). 

While borrowing from the classical models, these phenomenological approaches have also helped to clarify and refine the concepts of free-volume and configurational entropy and have focused attention on the nature of the relaxation spectrum (7-10,109,110). When a hquid in equiUbrium at a temperature Ti is suddenly cooled to a temperature, T2, its structure has no time to adjust and its properties (such as volume V, enthalpy H, or index of refraction n) exhibit instantaneous, solidlike changes characteristic of the glassy state as illustrated in Figure 9. For example, the instantaneous change in the enthalpy H may be written as follows ... 

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