Thermodynamic properties, defined

ENTHALPY. The enthalpy, H or heat content, of a substance is a thermodynamic property defined as the internal energy. E. plus the product of the pressure, P. times the volume. V. of the substance... 

This equation can be written as function of the equilibrium adsorption-desorption constant, which is a thermodynamic property. Defining,... 

The following thermodynamic properties define the state of a system ... 

The values of the thermodynamic properties of the pure substances given in these tables are, for the substances in their standard states, defined as follows For a pure solid or liquid, the standard state is the substance in the condensed phase under a pressure of 1 atm (101 325 Pa). For a gas, the standard state is the hypothetical ideal gas at unit fugacity, in which state the enthalpy is that of the real gas at the same temperature and at zero pressure. 

Enthalpy. Enthalpy is the thermodynamic property of a substance defined as the sum of its internal energy plus the quantity Pv//, where P = pressure of the substance, v = its specific volume, and J = the mechanical equivalent of heat. Enthalpy is also known as total heat and heat content. 

Free energy, G, is a related thermodynamic property. It is most commonly used to define the condition for equiUbrium in a processing step. It is identical to AH if the processing step occurs at Tq. 

Each of the two laws of thermodynamics asserts the existence of a primitive thermodynamic property, and each provides an equation connecting the property with measurable quantities. These are not defining equations they merely provide a means to calculate changes in each property. 

If M represents the molar value of any extensive thermodynamic property, an excess property is defined as the difference between the actual property value of a solution and the value it would have as an ideal solution at the same temperature, pressure, and composition. Thus,... 

Thus, all the thermodynamic properties of a fluid are known if we are in possession of a single function of the independent variables in terms of which the state is defined. 

Students often ask, What is enthalpy The answer is simple. Enthalpy is a mathematical function defined in terms of fundamental thermodynamic properties as H = U+pV. This combination occurs frequently in thermodynamic equations and it is convenient to write it as a single symbol. We will show later that it does have the useful property that in a constant pressure process in which only pressure-volume work is involved, the change in enthalpy AH is equal to the heat q that flows in or out of a system during a thermodynamic process. This equality is convenient since it provides a way to calculate q. Heat flow is not a state function and is often not easy to calculate. In the next chapter, we will make calculations that demonstrate this path dependence. On the other hand, since H is a function of extensive state variables it must also be an extensive state variable, and dH = 0. As a result, AH is the same regardless of the path or series of steps followed in getting from the initial to final state and... 

The Helmholtz free energy A is the second of the three derived thermodynamic properties. It is defined as... 

Fugacity, like other thermodynamics properties, is a defined quantity that does not need to have physical significance, but it is nice that it does relate to physical quantities. Under some conditions, it becomes (within experimental error) the equilibrium gas pressure (vapor pressure) above a condensed phase. It is this property that makes fugacity especially useful. We will now define fugacity, see how to calculate it, and see how it is related to vapor pressure. We will then define a related quantity known as the activity and describe the properties of fugacity and activity, especially in solution. 

In Chapter 5, we defined the partial molar property Z, and described how it could be used to determine the total thermodynamic property through the equation... 

A chart which correlates experimental P - V - T data for all gases is included as Figure 2.1 and this is known as the generalised compressibility-factor chart.(1) Use is made of reduced coordinates where the reduced temperature Tr, the reduced pressure Pr, and the reduced volume Vr are defined as the ratio of the actual temperature, pressure, and volume of the gas to the corresponding values of these properties at the critical state. It is found that, at a given value of Tr and Pr, nearly all gases have the same molar volume, compressibility factor, and other thermodynamic properties. This empirical relationship applies to within about 2 per cent for most gases the most important exception to the rule is ammonia. 

A simple example of how molecular electronic structure can influence condensed phase liquid crystalline properties exists for molecules containing strongly dipolar units. These tend to exhibit dipolar associations in condensed phases which influence many thermodynamic properties [29]. Local structural correlations are usually measured using the Kirkwood factor g defined as... 

Lipophilicity is a molecular property expressing the relative affinity of solutes for an aqueous phase and an organic, water-immiscible solvent. As such, lipophilicity encodes most of the intermolecular forces that can take place between a solute and a solvent, and represents the affinity of a molecule for a lipophilic environment. This parameter is commonly measured by its distribution behavior in a biphasic system, described by the partition coefficient of the species X, P. Thermodynamically, is defined as a constant relating the activity of a solute in two immiscible phases at equilibrium [111,112]. By convention, P is given with the organic phase as numerator, so that a positive value for log P reflects a preference for the lipid phase ... 

Besides the partial molar and the relative partial molar free energies of the components, some other important thermodynamic properties are the partial molar and the relative partial molar enthalpies and entropies. The partial molar enthalpy and entropy of the component A are defined by... 

The stability of a trivial assembly is simply determined by the thermodynamic properties of the discrete intermolecular binding interactions involved. Cooperative assembly processes involve an intramolecular cyclization, and this leads to an enhanced thermodynamic stability compared with the trivial analogs. The increase in stability is quantified by the parameter EM, the effective molarity of the intramolecular process, as first introduced in the study of intramolecular covalent cyclization reactions (6,7). EM is defined as the ratio of the binding constant of the intramolecular interaction to the binding constant of the corresponding intermolecular interaction (Scheme 2). The former can be determined by measuring the stability of the self-assembled structure, and the latter value is determined using simple monofunctional reference compounds. 

Permeability (P) is usually defined as the product of a thermodynamic property and a transport property which are, respectively, the partition or solubility coefficient, K, and the diffusion coefficient, D. This partition coefficient is defined as the ratio at equilibrium of the solute concentration inside the gel to that in solution. A value of K less than 1 indicates that the solute favors the solution... 

Since the interplay of theory and experiment is central to nearly all the material covered in this chapter, it is appropriate to start by defining the various concepts and laws needed for a quantitative theoretical description of the thermodynamic properties of a dilute solid solution and of the various rate processes that occur when such a solution departs from equilibrium. This is the subject matter of Section II to follow. There Section 1 deals with equilibrium thermodynamics and develops expressions for the equilibrium concentrations of various hydrogen species and hydrogen-containing complexes in terms of the chemical potential of hy-... 

Suppose we now assign a physical meaning to the velocity v, representing it as the velocity of matter in the volume, V. Then if V always contains the same mass, it is a system volume. The properties defined for each point of the system represent those of a continuum in which the macroscopic character of the system is retained as we shrink to a point. Properties at a molecular or atomic level do not exist in this continuum context. Furthermore, since the system volume is fixed in mass, we can regard volume V to always enclose the same particles of matter as it moves in space. Each particle retains its continuum character and thermodynamic properties apply. 

The Clausius-Clapeyron equation provides a relationship between the thermodynamic properties for the relationship psat = psat(T) for a pure substance involving two-phase equilibrium. In its derivation it incorporates the Gibbs function (G), named after the nineteenth century scientist, Willard Gibbs. The Gibbs function per unit mass is defined... 

In open systems consisting of several components the thermodynamic properties of each component depend on the overall composition in addition to T and p. Chemical thermodynamics in such systems relies on the partial molar properties of the components. The partial molar Gibbs energy at constantp, Tand rij (eq. 1.77) has been given a special name due to its great importance the chemical potential. The corresponding partial molar enthalpy, entropy and volume under the same conditions are defined as... 

Thermodynamic properties at high pressures are of great interest for instance to Earth scientists who wish to understand the behaviour of the Earth s mantle, where pressures reach 100 GPa. To carry out energy minimizations in the static limit at non-zero pressures we minimize the enthalpy H = U + pV with respect to all the variables that define the structure, where p is the applied pressure and V the volume. When p is zero we regain eq. (11.7). 

Following from Equation (3.3), we say that internal energy is a state function. A more formal definition of state function is, A thermodynamic property (such as internal energy) that depends only on the present state of the system, and is independent of its previous history . In other words, a state function depends only on those variables that define the current state of the system, such as how much material is present, whether it is a solid, liquid or gas, etc. 

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