Lecture 19: Affinity and Nonequilibrium Law of Mass Action; Potential Energy Surface
MIT 2.43 Advanced Thermodynamics, Spring 2024
Instructor: Gian Paolo Beretta
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This lecture covers: Potential energy surface. Transitional state and activated complex. Affinity of a reaction. Nonequilibrium law of mass action for ideal and nonideal mixtures and solutions. Affinities vanish at chemical equilibrium. Complete chemical equilibrium.
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Key moments:
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:00:27 - Second Law and State Principle for Reacting System
00:01:47 - Hatsopoulos-Keenan Statement of the Second Law
00:06:20 - State Principle and Maximum Entropy Principle
00:09:20 - Review: Enthalpy of Formation and Bond Energies
00:10:45 - Collisions
00:13:19 - Potential Energy Surface and Activated Complex
00:23:32 - Forward and Backward Half-Reactions
00:28:57 - Extension of the Simple System Model: Assumptions
00:42:13 - Fundamental Relation for Chemical Equilibrium
00:46:53 - Necessary Condition for Chemical Equilibrium
00:47:08 - Non-Equilibrium Law of Mass Action
01:01:03 - Law of Mass Action in Terms of Activities
01:02:37 - Temperature Dependence of Equilibrium Constants
01:06:05 - Equilibrium Constants from Properties of Formation
01:16:10 - Dissociation and NOx Formation in Combustion
01:18:21 - Hydrocarbon Oxidation: Detailed Kinetic Mechanisms
01:23:05 - Chemical Equilibrium Using Lagrange Multipliers
01:28:37 - Complete Chemical Equilibrium
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