The Corresponding-States Principle and its Practice: Thermodynamic, Transport and Surface Properties of Fluids

by Hong Wei Xiang

Overview

The corresponding-states principle helps the understanding and calculating of thermodynamic, transport, and surface properties of substances in various states, required by our modern lifestyle. The Corresponding-States Principle and its Practice: Thermodynamic, Transport and Surface Properties of Fluids describes the origins and applications of the principle from a universal point of view with comparisons to experimental data where possible. It uses the universal theory to explain present theories. Emphasis is on the properties of pure systems, and the corresponding-states theory can also be extended to mixtures, which are treated as pure systems. Furthermore, the author discusses current progress, and shows technicians how to derive practical equations from molecular modeling. The Corresponding-States Principle and its Practice: Thermodynamic, Transport and Surface Properties of Fluids is the ideal handbook for those in chemical science and engineering related to energy, environment, natural gas, and petroleum.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780444520623
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	09/15/2005
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.45(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. The Corresponding-States Principle from the Continuity of Vapor and Liquid States 3. Theoretical Basis of the Corresponding-States Principle 4. The Corresponding-States Parameters 5. Thermodynamic Properties 6. Vapor Pressures 7. Transport Properties 8. Surface Tension

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A new look at the behaviour of nonspherical molecules' properties

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"This book is highly recommended to our profession in applied fields of petroleum, natural gas, and environmental science and engineering, and the fundamental fields of molecular-based study of fluids and phase transitions included highly nonspherical molecules into the corresponding-states frame with about one order of magnitude more accurate than that of Pitzer et al. for heavy hydrocarbon, polar, associating, and hydro-bonding molecules, and provided a new way to understand the behavior of properties of nonspherical molecules" —Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, December 2004

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