Endothermic and Exothermic Processes

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  Physical Chemistry

  How Chemistry Works

  • Kurt W. Kolasinski(Author)
  • 2016(Publication Date)
  • Wiley

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  CHAPTER 10 Thermochemistry: The role of heat in chemical and physical changes

  PREVIEW OF IMPORTANT CONCEPTS

  • The standard state of a substance is its pure form in equilibrium at 1 bar.
  • Δr H° < 0 defines an exothermic reaction. Δr H° > 0 defines an endothermic reaction.
  • Energy is not released from bonds when they are broken. Energy is released from a reactive system when weaker bonds are replaced by stronger bonds being formed.
  • In an exothermic reaction, weaker bonds are broken on average in the reactants and stronger bonds are made in the products.
  • Calorimetry – the science of the measurement of heat exchange associated with a process – is the standard method for determining the enthalpy change during a reaction.
  • The heat exchanged at constant pressure is equal to the enthalpy change.
  • The heat exchanged at constant volume is equal to the internal energy change.
  • Enthalpy is a state function, which leads to Hess's law: The standard enthalpy of an overall reaction is the sum of the standard enthalpies of the individual reactions into which a reaction may be divided.
  • The enthalpy change of any reaction can be calculated from the enthalpies of formation of the reactants and products.
  • Heat capacity is a temperature-dependent quantity.
  • Changes in the heat capacity between reactants and products are responsible for the changes in reaction enthalpy with temperature.

  Thermochemistry lies at the heart of one of the areas that makes chemistry so important. Energy can be extracted from a chemical system when bonds are rearranged in the making of products from reactants. This energy can be harvested to perform work, to generate steam and electricity, and to provide warmth in our homes. The energy changes that occur during reactions and phase changes are directly dependent on bonding and intermolecular interactions. Thus, the measurement of temperature changes during these processes is a direct measure of the strength of these interactions. By probing the strength of bonds and intermolecular interactions, thermochemical measurements provide tests to our models of these interactions.

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  Careers in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

  • Victor Edwards, Suzanne Shelley(Authors)
  • 2018(Publication Date)
  • CRC Press

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  5 Basic Concepts: Equilibrium and Rate Processes

  Thermodynamics

  Fundamental definitions in thermodynamics

  Thermodynamics is a branch of physics that is concerned with temperature and heat, and their relation to energy and work in macroscopic systems (Van Ness and Abbott 2008). There are four laws of thermodynamics (discussed below) that apply to thermodynamic systems, such as heat engines or chemically reacting substances. There are numerous other equations that derive from those laws, and those equations allow users to predict the outcome of physical and chemical phenomena involving thermodynamic systems.

  Chemical thermodynamics is the study of the interrelation of energy with chemical reactions or with a physical change of state, within the confines of the laws of thermodynamics. Numerous chemical engineering unit operations and processes can be represented as thermodynamic systems for the purposes of analysis and design.

  Conceptually, in thermodynamics, a system may be an object, a quantity of matter, or a region of space that is selected for study and set apart (conceptually) from everything else; the “everything else” is referred to as the surroundings (Van Ness and Abbott 2008). The boundary of the system can be imagined as an envelope that encloses the system and separates it from its surroundings.

  A system can interact with its surroundings in several ways. If there is no interaction, the system is said to be isolated . A system that is not isolated may allow the exchange of energy and/or material across its boundary. A system that allows exchange of matter is said to be open . If energy can exchange between the system and the surroundings, but no matter can be exchanged, the system is said to be closed .

  Initially, changes in temperature or pressure may occur within an isolated system, even if there is no exchange of matter or energy with the surroundings. However, these changes eventually stop, and the system is said to be in a final static state of internal equilibrium (Figure 5.1

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  Medical Biochemistry

  • Antonio Blanco, Gustavo Blanco(Authors)
  • 2017(Publication Date)
  • Academic Press

    (Publisher)

  Chapter 7

  Elements of Thermodynamics and Biochemical Kinetics

  Abstract

  Chemical reactions proceed with energy changes. Heat is one of the most common forms of energy and it is easy to measure. At constant pressure and temperature, the change in heat is the change in enthalpy (∆H ). Free energy (G ) is the fraction of released energy available to perform work. The free energy change (∆G ) of a reaction is given by the equation: ∆G  = ∆H  – T · ∆S . A reaction occurs spontaneously when the change in G (∆G ) is negative. The tendency to increase entropy (S, increased disorder) determines the reaction direction. All processes occur with free energy decrease until equilibrium is reached, in which G is minimal. Reactions with negative ∆G are exergonic, while those with positive ∆G are endergonic. Endergonic reactions are possible when coupled with others sufficiently exergonic. ATP, energy rich compound, participates in coupled reactions. Chemical reactions can be coupled when the product of one of them is a reagent for the next. In this case, the overall process ∆G equals the sum of ∆G of individual reactions. In biochemical transformations, endergonic reactions are possible by coupling them with other sufficiently exergonic, so that the overall ∆G is negative. From a kinetic standpoint, reactions can be classified according to the relationship between the reaction rate and the concentration of reactants. A reaction is zero order when the rate of reaction is constant regardless of the reagent concentration. It is first order when the rate is directly proportional to the reactant concentration. Activation energy is the energy needed by the reactants to reach the transition or activated state, from which the reaction can proceed spontaneously. Catalysts

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  Introduction to Geochemistry

  Principles and Applications

  • Kula C. Misra(Author)
  • 2012(Publication Date)
  • Wiley-Blackwell

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  r values are negative for exothermic reactions and positive for endothermic reactions. In general, the enthalpy of a reaction is not a measure of its tendency to occur.

  The free energy change of a chemical reaction at the temperature and pressure of interest, which takes into account changes in both enthalpy and entropy, allows us to answer two important questions about chemical reactions: (i) are the reactants and products in equilibrium? and (ii) if not in equilibrium, in which direction would the spontaneous reaction proceed to achieve equilibrium? The rules may be summarized as follows (Fig. 4.8 ):

  (1) the reactants and products are in equilibrium at the P and T of interest.

  (2) the reaction should be expected to proceed spontaneously in the direction of the product assemblage, which has a lower free energy and thus is more stable than the reactant assemblage at the P and T of interest.

  (3) the reaction should be expected to proceed spontaneously in the direction of the reactant assemblage, which has a lower free energy and thus is more stable than the product assemblage at the P and T of interest.

  Fig. 4.8

  Schematic illustration of the change in Gibbs free energy of a system (G ) consisting of two pure phases, A and B, as a function of the extent of reaction (ξ) between A and B at constant temperature (T ) and pressure (P ). Starting with either pure A or pure B, G of the system decreases with increasing ξ and reaches a minimum at equilibrium. At equilibrium, ΔG r , P T = 0.

  The magnitude of for a reaction may be looked upon as a measure of the “driving force” for the reaction, but

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  Foundations for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

  • Nils O. Petersen(Author)
  • 2017(Publication Date)
  • CRC Press

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  6

  The basics of thermodynamics

  6.1 SOME BASIC CONCEPTS

  Thermodynamics refers to the field of chemistry which is concerned with understanding the flow of energy within a system or when a system changes from one state to another. One ultimate purpose of thermodynamics is to predict whether a change will occur spontaneously. The field of thermodynamics is based on three fundamental laws which lead to a set of parameters such as the free energy and the chemical potential, which are key to our understanding of spontaneous change.

  In contrast to the field of quantum mechanics, the field of thermodynamics is, to a first approximation, not concerned with the detailed structures of the materials, and hence the outcomes become very generally applicable.

  Our first task is to remind ourselves of some basic concepts of systems and how we describe these.

  A system is simply that region of space or matter that we are interested in understanding. The surroundings of the system is everything else —in principle, everything else in the universe, but in practice everything else that matters, such as the laboratory in which we study the system. For example, the system could be a gas held in a glass container, with the surroundings being the glass container and everything around it. Similarly, the system could be a solution of molecules in a solvent where the system is the molecules in solution and the surroundings include the solvent, the container and everything around it.

  We characterize a system by a number of functions (or variables) that tell us something unique about the system. Examples would be the temperature of the system, the pressure of the system, the volume of the system, the mass (or the number of molecules) in the system, and the energy of the system. If the state of the system changes, we expect one or more of these functions to change as well, for example, if the number of molecules in the system changes, the volume might change; or if a chemical reaction occurs, the temperature might change. In the context of thermodynamics we are most interested in understanding the change in energy, which is in turn often related to the changes in temperature, pressure, volume, and mass.

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