Chemical reactions in endoreversible thermodynamics
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Chemical reactions in endoreversible thermodynamics
zbMATH Open document ID: 1346.80006
DOI: 10.1088/0143-0807/37/1/015101
author: Katharina Wagner
author: Karl Heinz Hoffmann
published in: European Journal of Physics
publication date: 2016-05-20T00:00:00Z
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 80A32
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 80A05
zbMATH DE Number: 6583037
zbMATH Keywords: non-equilibrium thermodynamics
zbMATH Keywords: chemical reactions
zbMATH Keywords: modelling
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0143-0807/37/1/015101
OpenAlex ID: W2270463087
review text: ``To overcome the limitations of classical equilibrium thermodynamics, endoreversible thermodynamics was developed.'' (page 2). This paper presents a new concept, how chemical reactions can be included in endoreversible thermodynamics, where a new type of subsystems, the so-called reactor, is introduced. The authors start with a short overview of the required concepts and describe the details concerning the two classes of subsystems: reservoirs and engines. After that they give an insight into the difference between reversible and irreversible interactions between subsystems. In classical formulation of endoreversible thermodynamics, only one type of the interactions is considered, thus, they take a look at multi-extensity fluxes. Next, they go over to the discussion of reversible and irreversible reaction processes, where they define new endoreversible subsystems, namely a reversible and a totally irreversible reactor, which are also depicted in the corresponding scheme.
reviewed by: Sarah Eberle
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6583037