Liquid-liquid equilibrium (LLE) problems such as phase stability analysis, phase equilibrium calculations, chemical equilibrium calculations, binary interaction parameter identification of thermodynamic models and other problems of fluid characterization have been the core subject of many recent studies. This study introduces Cuckoo Search (CS), Firefly Algorithms (FA) and its variants as p...

we assume that every act of absorption from lower level A to upper level B is followed by an act of emission from B to A. In other words, the number of atoms in state B is defined by the number in A, and by the transition probability A---B. This is in contradiction to the assumption of thermodynamic equilibrium. Since in thermodynamic equilibrium the number of atoms in any state is fixed, it se...

The formal consideration of the concept of interaction in thermodynamic analysis makes it possible to deduce, in the broadest terms, new results related to the coevolution of interacting systems, irrespective of their distance from thermodynamic equilibrium. In this paper I prove the existence of privileged coevolution trajectories characterized by the minimum joint production of internal entro...

Abstract: Thermodynamic computational packages MTDATA and FactSage have been used to carry out calculations on the variation with temperature of the phases precipitated on cooling in both oxidising and reducing conditions of a typical ladle slag composition, in the temperature range 1700 - 900°C. The current coverage of the databases associated with the computational packages is discussed i...

Vapor-liquid equilibrium relationships are important properties for practical use, such as in the design and operation of distillation equipment. In general, vapor-liquid equilibrium relations are determined experimentally, and it is a custom to test the thermodynamic consistency of the equilibrium data. Investigators1^4-15'17'19~22-24) have proposed various methods for testing thermodynamic co...

Conditions for thermodynamic equilibrium of liquid drops on solid substrates are presented. It is shown that if surface force (disjoining/conjoining Derjaguin pressure) action in a vicinity of the three-phase contact line is taken into account the condition of thermodynamic equilibrium is duly satisfied. Then the thermodynamic expressions for equilibrium contact angles of drops on solid substra...

hydroxyapatite nanocrystals were synthesized by sol-gel combustion method for the sorption ofhg(ii) ions from aqueous solutions. the effects of varying parameters such as ph, temperature, initialmetal concentration, and contact time on the adsorption process were examined. adsorptionequilibrium was established in 360 minutes and the maximum adsorption of hg(ii) on thehydroxyapatite was observed...

A communication theory for a transmitter broadcasting to many receivers is presented. In this case energetic considerations cannot be neglected as in Shannon theory. It is shown that, when energy is assigned to the information bit, information theory complies with classical thermodynamic and is part of it. To provide a thermodynamic theory of communication it is necessary to define equilibrium ...

Thermodynamic theory of phase equilibrium is the main base for the development of the methods of fluid mixtures separation. Thermodynamic approach has a lot of advantages in the practical application when conditions of separation processes are close to the equilibrium. For nonequilibrium processes these advantages fail and one should use another methods including empirical relationships and mod...

In a classic paper, Morduchow and Libby use an analytic solution for the profile of a Navier–Stokes shock to show that the equilibrium thermodynamic entropy has a maximum inside the shock. There is no general nonequilibrium thermodynamic formulation of entropy; the extension of equilibrium theory to nonequililbrium processes is usually made through the assumption of local thermodynamic equilibr...