Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:

• Interprets the biggest global environmental problems of Chemical and Environmental Engineering.
• Calculates conversions between the various units of measurement of physical quantities frequently encountered in Chemical and Environmental Engineering.
• Solves mass and energy balances of relatively simple Chemical and Environmental Engineering problems.
• Recognizes the basic concepts/principles of Physical Chemistry, the microcosm of the macrocosm and the behavior of organized matter.
• Describes the behavior of ideal and non-ideal gases and the behavior of real gases in processes.
• Analyzes and designs physical chemistry, thermodynamic and separation processes (Distillation, Absorption, Adsorption, Extraction).
• Analyzes and designs physical chemistry, thermodynamic and separation processes (Distillation, Absorption, Adsorption, Extraction.
• Applies 1st and 2nd law of thermodynamics.
• Uses the physicochemical properties of organized matter to develop, design and analyze processes.
• Examines the kinetics and mechanism of chemical reactions and performing thermodynamic calculations.
• Defines the behavior of reactors and processes.
• Relates phase equilibria (liquid-vapor, liquid-liquid, liquid-solid) and use of physicochemical properties and equations to design the processes involved.
• Designs a fractional distillation process.
• Determines the thermodynamic parameters of a reaction.

• Research, analysis and synthesis of data and information, using the necessary technologies
• Autonomous Work
• Teamwork
• Project design and management
• Production of new research ideas

1. States of matter and basic properties.
2. The gaseous state of matter: Ideal and non-ideal behavior, empirical laws, constitutive equations (of ideal and non-ideal gases), critical and reduced variables, theorem of corresponding states.
3. Diffusion of gases.
4. Phase Balance.
5. Equilibrium of a liquid mixture and its vapors and laws governing it.
6. Distillation: physicochemical distillation analysis and design, differential and fractional distillation.
7. Equilibrium of gas-liquid, liquid-liquid, liquid-solid
8. Physicochemical analysis of Absorption, Extraction, Adsorption processes.
9. Physical and chemical sorption, isotherms.
10. Thermodynamics: 1st Law and applications.
11. Chemical Thermodynamics,
12. 2nd Law and applications, Enthalpy, Entropy, Gibbs and Helmholtz Free Energy.
13. Chemical potential, Chemical equilibrium.

Assessment Method

Written final examination (100%):
- Questions of theoretical knowledge.
- Theoretical problems to be resolved.

• Physical Chemistry, Peter Atkins, Julio de Paula, James Keeler, Oxford University Press; 11th edition, ISBN: 978-0198769866
• Physical Chemistry, Kurt W Kolasinski, Wiley; 1st edition, ISBN: 978-1118751121