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CHEMICAL THERMODYNAMICS SET CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SERIES
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Coordinated by Michel Soustelle CHEMICAL THERMODYNAMICS SET

This book is part of a set of books which offers advanced
students successive characterization tool phases, the study
of all types of phase (liquid, gas and solid, pure or multi-
component), process engineering, chemical and Michel Soustelle
electrochemical equilibria, and the properties of surfaces and
phases of small sizes. Macroscopic and microscopic models
are in turn covered with a constant correlation between the
two scales. Particular attention has been given to the rigor of
mathematical developments.

This fourth volume of the set concerns the study of chemical
equilibria. The conditions of evolution of systems are first
discussed through the De Donder affinity method. The
modes of movement and stability under the action of
disturbances are examined as well as the Gibbs and Duhem
phase laws. The azeotropic transformations and the
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description of indifferent states complete this study.
The methods of experimental determination and the
calculation of different values associated with chemical
reactions (enthalpies, entropies, calorific capacities, free and
constant equilibrium enthalpies) lead to complex equilibrium Chemical Equilibria Chemical Equilibria
calculations and their graphical representations in various
forms: pole figures, generalized Ellingham diagrams, binary,
tertiary and quaternary diagrams.

Michel Soustelle is a chemical engineer and Emeritus
Professor at Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne in France. He
taught chemical kinetics from postgraduate to Master degree
level while also carrying out research in this topic.
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