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Thermodynamics I Interactive Simulations

Our CDF simulations can be downloaded and used offline with the Wolfram CDF plug-in. They are also available on the Wolfram Demonstration Project website. Please contact us at learncheme@gmail.com if you identify problems with any of the simulations or if you have suggestions for simulations we might prepare.

Energy Balances and Entropy

Throttling High-Pressure Water	Energy Balance on Pressurizing a Tank	Evaporative Cooling of Water	Reversible and Irreversible Expansion or Compression Work	Temperature Changes in an Ideal Gas
Entropy Changes in Mixing Ideal Gases	Compressed-Gas Spray	Compare Compressors or Turbines with Different Efficiencies	Compressible Flow through a Nozzle/Diffuser	Adiabatic Compression of Pure Gases Prepared by H. Binous, N. A. Al-Baghli, and B. G. Higgins
Joule-Thomson Expansion	Material and Energy Balances in a Reactor with Heat Exchange	Arranging Balls into Boxes Prepared by Marc Brodie	Adiabatic Evaporation of Water into Vacuum	Adiabatic Gas Expansion between Two Tanks

Cycles

Rankine Cycle

Ordinary Vapor Compression (OVC) Cycle for Refrigerant R-134a

Carnot Cycles with Irreversible Heat Transfer

Phase Equilibrium in a Pure Fluid/Phase Diagrams

Phase Behavior on a Pressure-Volume Diagram	Single-Component P-V and T-V Diagrams	Circumnavigating the Critical Point	Injecting a Liquid into an Evacuated Tank	Reading a Psychrometric Chart
Pressure-Enthalpy Diagram for Water	Temperature-Entropy Diagram for Water	Adiabatic Compression of Water in VLE	Compressibility Factor Charts	Enthalpy-Entropy Diagram for Water
P-V Diagram for Heating a Vapor-Liquid Mixture at Constant Volume	Pressure-Temperature Phase Diagram for Water	Compare Clausius-Clapeyron and Antoine Equations