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Research activities. Rational Thermodynamics. Physical chemistry is the ancestor of chemical engineering thermodynamics: => Inheritance of definitions originally introduced to please the experimentator.

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  1. Research activities

  2. Rational Thermodynamics • Physical chemistry is the ancestor of chemical engineering thermodynamics: => Inheritance of definitions originally introduced to please the experimentator. => Theory is adequate for hand calculations, but quite disadvantageous for general computer programming.

  3. Rational Thermodynamics • Let the following VLE condition serve as an illustration: • The fundamental EOS equilibrium condition is: • For activity coefficient models an equivalent expression becomes:

  4. Rational Thermodynamics • For supercritical components a Henry reference state will be more appropriate: • There is now a bewildering number of symbols & indices:

  5. Rational Thermodynamics • Complex notation => model errors may occur at two different levels: 1) Inconsistent approximations made at the implementation level (semantic bugs). 2) Inconsistent use of model features in the user interface (syntactic bugs).

  6. Rational Thermodynamics • In both cases the errors will be hard to capture. Typically they require the presence of an expert (programmer) to be solved. • Conclusion: Thermodynamic modelling is an old subject ready for a thorough face-lift.

  7. Rational Thermodynamics • Identify the canonical variables of the model. In practice either or • These are homogeneous functions which can be added to yield a total contribution:

  8. Rational Thermodynamics • The standard state contribution can be split into new (sub)contributions following the same rules:

  9. Rational Thermodynamics • Proposition: Only two algebraic operators are needed for a general thermodynamic model setup! 1) The chain operator for doing things like: 2) The patch operator for defining sub-graphs:

  10. Rational Thermodynamics • Operator precedence: chain > patch • For programming reasons overload * as chain and + as patch • The equation of state VLE model can now be written: • Where the standard state is defined as:

  11. Rational Thermodynamics • The operators are type safe:

  12. Rational Thermodynamics • Note that a list operator has been introduced to make the expression more legible. • Similar, albeit more complex, expressions can be written for Gibbs energy models.

  13. * + * * Rational Thermodynamics • An equivalent calculation graph is:

  14. Rational Thermodynamics • Example code (in Ruby for a change): mix = [”H2O”,”CH3OH”,”C2H5OH”] A0 = MuT.new(mix) * [[:cpDippr,”ig”] + Mu.new(mix) * [:HoSo,”ig”]] A = Helmholtz.new(mix) * [:cubicEOS,”fl”] * [:idealGas,”ig”] + A0

  15. Rational Thermodynamics • The thermodynamic object A is explicit in (T,V,N). For practical use the output needs to be transformed into (H,P,N), (S,P,N), (T,P,N), etc: • Legendre: extensive <=> intensive variable. • Massieu: function <=> extensive variable. • A new object is required to take care of the transformations => thermodynamic surface.

  16. Rational Thermodynamics • More program code (x is a coordinate vector provided by e.g. the flow sheet solver): S = Surface.new(mix) + A S = S.legendre(”-T”).legendre(”-V”) .massieu(”S”) .legendre(”-P”) g = S.gradient(x) H = S.hessian(x)

  17. Rational Thermodynamics • Thermo-objects are made by operators but modified by methods => clean interface. • Use of operators => thermodynamic frameworks can be broken down into small, manageable, sequences. • Model description is not tied to any particular implementation => easy to export, exchange and update model info.

  18. H P T H Rational Thermodynamics • Example: Propane-butane splitter with multiple coordinate specifications.

  19. Rational Thermodynamics • Thermodynamic surface transformations => canonical (& aesthetically pleasing) equation system.

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