Book details:

Heat Capacities - Liquids, Solutions and Vapours

Year:2010
ISBN:978-0-85404-176-3
Publisher:RSC Publishing
Description:

The book contains the very latest information on all aspects of heat capacities related to liquids and vapours, either pure or mixed. The chapters, all written by knowledgeable experts in their respective fields, cover theory, experimental methods, and techniques (including speed of sound, photothermal techniques, brillouin scattering, scanning transitiometry, high resolution adiabatic scanning calorimetry), results on solutions, liquids, vapours, mixtures, electrolytes, critical regions, proteins, liquid crystals, polymers, reactions, effects of high pressure and phase changes. Experimental methods for the determination of heat capacities as well as theoretical aspects, including data correlation and prediction, are dealt with in detail. Of special importance are the contributions concerning heat capacities of dilute solutions, ultrasonics and hypersonics, critical behaviour and the influence of high pressure.

This new book covers the wide range of topics in the field of heat capacities and vapours and as such is a key point of reference for undergraduates and graduates alike as well as researchers, academics and anyone working in the field or related areas.

last modified 27 July 2010

Content:
Heat Capacities: Introduction, Concepts and Selected Applications.- Calorimetric Methods for Measuring Heat Capacities of Liquids and Liquid Solutions.- An Exact Analysis of Conductive Heat Losses in a Flow Calorimeter for Heat capacity Measurement.- Excess Heat Capacities and Related Properties of Liquid mixtures.- Heat Capacity of Non-Electrolyte Solutions.- Heat Capacities and Related Properties of Vapours and Vapour Mixtures.- Heat Capacity of Electrolyte Solutions.- Scanning Transitiometry and its Use to Determine Heat Capacities of Liquids at High Pressures.- Speed of Sound Measurements and Heat Capacities of Liquid Systems at High Pressure.- Heat Capacities and Brillouin Scattering in Liquids.- Photothermal Techniques for Heat Capacities.- High Resolution Adiabatic Scanning Calorimetry and Heat Capacities.- Heat Capacities in the Critical Region.- Heat Capacity of Polymeric Systems.- Protein Heat Capacity.- Specific Heat in Liquid Crystals.- Heat Capacities and Phase Transitions for the Dynamic Chemical Systems: Conformers, Tautomers, Plastic Crystals and Ionic Liquids.- The Estimation of Heat Capacities of Pure Liquids.- Computer Simulation Studies of Heat Capacity Effects Associated with Hydrophobic Effects.- Partial Molar Heat Capacities of Gases Dissolved in Liquid.- Heat Capacities of Molten Salts.