Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

    • Welcome video

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    • Expected starting competences

    • Meet the teacher

    • Learning objectives

    • What do you want to learn?

    • Have a look at what other students want to learn

    • Present yourself to your classmates

    • Become familiar with the learning platform

    • Good practices to use this course
  • 2

    Course context

    • Course context
  • 3

    Introduction, definitions and laws

    • Introduction and definitions

    • Exercise: Application of balance equation

    • The first law of thermodynamics

    • Exercise: Calculation of enthalpy change

    • Exercise: Prediction of end result by first law

    • The second law of thermodynamics: Entropy

    • Characteristic functions

    • Exercise: Gibbs energy: absolute or relative

    • Fundamental equations and thermodynamic equilibrium for closed systems
  • 4

    Open systems, chemical potential and solutions

    • Open Systems

    • Chemical potential of pure component

    • Chemical potential of component in mixture

    • Solutions

    • Calphad

    • Alternative standard states

    • Recap

    • Open Systems + chemical potential + solutions - Exercises
  • 5

    Equilibrium

    • Gibbs free energy change and chemical equilibrium

    • Exercise: Fraction reaction

    • Standard state conversions

    • Sievert’s law and the solubility of gasses in metals

    • Phase-equilibria

    • Predominance diagrams

    • Recap

    • Equilibrium - Exercises
  • 6

    Ellingham

    • Basics

    • Ellingham diagram construction

    • Explain the slopes of the following lines on the Ellingham diagram

    • How to use an Ellingham diagram

    • Application examples

    • Recap

    • Exercise: Reductants in industry

    • Ellingham: exercise 1

    • Ellingham: exercise 1 - Solution

    • Ellingham: exercise 2

    • Ellingham: exercise 2 - Solution

    • Ellingham - exercise 3
  • 7

    Phase diagrams

    • Gibbs' phase rule

    • Unary systems

    • Binary systems

    • Binary phase diagrams in practice

    • Ternary phase diagrams

    • Recap

    • Phase diagrams: exercise 1

    • Phase diagrams: exercise 1 - Solution

    • Phase diagrams: exercise 2

    • Phase diagrams: exercise 2 - Solution

    • Phase diagrams - exercises 3 & 4
  • 8

    Conclusion

    • Concluding video

    • What did you learn?

    • How can we improve this course?

    • Read what others want to improve on this course

    • Further readings
  • 9

    References

    • References
  • 10

    Evaluate this course

    • How this evaluation is structured

    • Evaluate this course

Instructor(s)

Professor

Inge Bellemans

Prof. Dr. ir. Inge Bellemans has been working since 2013 as a researcher in the Sustainable Materials Science research group at Ghent University (Belgium). First, as a PhD student with a fellowship from the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO), then as a post-doctoral researcher with a fellowship from the Special Research Fund at Ghent University and now as a post-doctoral researcher with a fellowship from the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) and as an assistant professor (10%). In this way, she built expertise on experimental work and modelling in a pyrometallurgical context. She is the author of several Web of Science papers and supervisor of 7 ongoing PhDs. Since 2013, she has been teaching part of the course ‘Materials Science Thermodynamics’ at Ghent University and in 2019, she became responsible lecturer for this course and started teaching the full course.