Consider you are working at laboratory, and you have liquid n-hexane (C6H14) at ambient temperature and pressure (25°C and 1 atm). Based on your experiment procedure, you need to have vapor phase of n-hexane at 300°C and 1 atm. (a) Draw the hypothetical process path for phase change and calculate the enthalpy changes for each step. Determine the total specific enthalpy (kJ/mol) of n-hexane for this process. (b) Assuming ideal gas behavior, calculate the specific internal energy (kJ/mol) of the n- hexane vapor at 300°C and 1 atm
Thermochemistry
Thermochemistry can be considered as a branch of thermodynamics that deals with the connections between warmth, work, and various types of energy, formed because of different synthetic and actual cycles. Thermochemistry describes the energy changes that occur as a result of reactions or chemical changes in a substance.
Exergonic Reaction
The term exergonic is derived from the Greek word in which ‘ergon’ means work and exergonic means ‘work outside’. Exergonic reactions releases work energy. Exergonic reactions are different from exothermic reactions, the one that releases only heat energy during the course of the reaction. So, exothermic reaction is one type of exergonic reaction. Exergonic reaction releases work energy in different forms like heat, light or sound. For example, a glow stick releases light making that an exergonic reaction and not an exothermic reaction since no heat is released. Even endothermic reactions at very high temperature are exergonic.
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