AN IDENTITY IN CHEMICAL THERMODYNAMICS

Citation
I. Gutman et al., AN IDENTITY IN CHEMICAL THERMODYNAMICS, Journal of mathematical chemistry, 16(3-4), 1994, pp. 229-244
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Chemistry,Mathematics
ISSN journal
02599791
Volume
16
Issue
3-4
Year of publication
1994
Pages
229 - 244
Database
ISI
SICI code
0259-9791(1994)16:3-4<229:AIICT>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
In this work we consider the equilibrium state of a multicomponent sys tem in which chemical reactions occur, and its sensitivity to the chan ge of any of the thermodynamic parameters influencing the equilibrium. A general expression is obtained for the sensitivity coefficient part ial-derivativen(i)/partial-derivativeY, where n(i) is the equilibrium amount of the ith chemical species in the system, and Y is a thermodyn amic parameter such as temperature, pressure, initial amount of a spec ies, chemical potential of a species, etc. We demonstrate that the sen sitivity coefficients are linear combinations of contributions origina ting from certain special reactions, called response reactions, which are defined in the paper.