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Module Specifications
Archived Version 2009 - 2010
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Assume that a 5 credit module load represents approximately 75 hours' work, which includes all teaching, in-course assignments, laboratory work or other specialised training and an estimated private learning time associated with the module. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indicative Syllabus | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
- Review: definitions and variables, R, T, U etc.; state functions; first law. - Second law, entropy, free energy, Gibbs-Helmholtz equation, Clausius-Clapeyron equation, Raoult''''s Law, Gibbs-Duhem equation - Measurement of thermodynamic quantities, standard entropy, enthalpy and Gibbs free energy, third law. - Equilibrium and kinetics, rates and order of reactions, stoichiometry vs. molecularity, mechanisms, determining the rate law, law of mass action. - Methods of determining reaction, overall order of a reaction, elementary reactions and complex mechanisms, reaction energetics, microscopic reversibility, steady state approximation. - Temperature dependence of reaction rates, Arrhenius equation, activation energy and activated complex theory, measuring the activation energy, sampling and continuous methods, collision theory. -Complex reactions, chain processes, initiation, propagation, termination, reactions in solution, transition state theory. - Natural energy flows. - Human energy consumption. - Fossils fuels; - Origins, carbon cycle, coal, oil, gas. - Introduction to nuclear energy; - Radioactivity, naturally occurring isotopes, fission, fission reactors, hazards, fusion. - Introduction to renewable energy; - Solar (heating and photovoltaics) biomass (thermal and biochemical conversion), biofuels (biodiesel and bioethanol), wind, ocean and geothermal energy. - Future clean energy; - The hydrogen economy. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Indicative Reading List | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Essential: Physical Chemistry by R. A. Alberty, Wiley & Sons, 1993. The Essential Guide to Environmental Chemistry, G. Schwedt, Wiley 2001. Supplementary: Environmental Chemistry, I Williams. Wiley 2001. Chemistry of the Environment, T. Spiro, W. M. Stigliani. Prentice-Hall 1996. Basic Concepts of Environmental Chemistry, D.W. Connelly, Lewis 1997. Energy Systems and Sustainability, G. Boyle et al, Oxford, 2003. Renewable Energy, G. Boyle, Oxford, 2004. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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AC | BSc in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sc. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
AS | BSc in Analytical Science | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CF | BSc in Chemistry with French | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CG | BSc in Chemistry with German | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ESH | BSc Environmental Science & Health | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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