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Explore advanced thermodynamics concepts through this comprehensive MIT graduate-level course taught by Professor Gian Paolo Beretta. Master fundamental principles including multicomponent equilibrium properties, chemical equilibrium, electrochemical potentials, and chemical kinetics while developing a unified understanding of phase equilibria, transport phenomena, and nonequilibrium thermodynamics. Delve into practical applications such as second-law efficiencies, primary energy allocation methods in cogeneration and hybrid power systems, minimum work of separation, maximum work of mixing, osmotic pressure, membrane equilibria, metastable states, and spinodal decomposition. Examine Onsager's near-equilibrium reciprocity in thermodiffusive, thermoelectric, and electrokinetic cross effects. Progress through 25 detailed lectures covering system definitions and the first law, entropy and the second law, energy-entropy diagrams, temperature and chemical potentials, heat interactions and efficiencies, free energies and stability conditions, availability functions, the Gibbs phase rule, Van der Waals model, exergy analysis, chemical potential applications, ideal mixtures, the Gibbs paradox, osmotic pressure and blue energy, stratification phenomena, liquid-vapor equilibria, chemical reactions, reaction properties and fuel exergy, chemical kinetics and the Arrhenius law, nonequilibrium theory, Onsager reciprocity, heat and diffusion interactions, entropy production principles, and multicomponent transport. Access complete course materials including hyperlinked table of contents, analytical index, and video timestamps for enhanced learning efficiency.
