This course aims to connect the principles, concepts, and laws/postulates of classical and statistical thermodynamics to applications that require quantitative knowledge of thermodynamic properties from a macroscopic to a molecular level. It covers their basic postulates of classical thermodynamics and their application to transient open and closed systems, criteria of stability and equilibria, as well as constitutive property models of pure materials and mixtures emphasizing molecular-level effects using the formalism of statistical mechanics. Phase and chemical equilibria of multicomponent systems are covered. Applications are emphasized through extensive problem work relating to practical cases.
Chemical Engineering
化学工程，简称化工，是研究以化学工业为代表以及其他过程工业（例如石油炼制、冶金、食品及印染工业等）生产过程中有关化学过程与物理过程的一般原理和规律，并且应用这些规律来解决过程及装置的开发、设计、操作及改善问题的工程技术学科。它主要研究大规模改变物料中的化学组成及其机械和物理性质。 简单地定义化学工程的本质，它以数学及少量的物理观念为基础应用于化学工业上，替生产各式化学品或物料的工厂提供一个最节省成本的反应流程设计方式。实验研究、理论分析和科学计算已经成为当代化工研究中不可或缺的三种主要手段。
