Chemical Potential: Pressure, Fugacity, & More

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Chemical potentials can be expressed using a logarithmic term that incorporates various factors such as pressure, fugacity, concentration, activity coefficients, and mole fractions. For a comprehensive understanding of these concepts, advanced thermodynamics textbooks are recommended. Key references include "Thermodynamics" by Lewis and Randall, which, despite its somewhat outdated language, provides extensive coverage of these topics. A more contemporary option is "Matter in Equilibrium" by Berry, Rice, and Ross. Additionally, "Introduction to Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics" by Smith and Van Ness is noted for its thorough treatment of real versus ideal species behavior.
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Chemical potentials can be written with an an ln term which has pressure, fugacity, concentration, activity coeff times concentration, mole fraction, and mole fraction times activity coeff. Is there any source that makes sense of this?
 
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Chemical potentials can be written with an an ln term which has pressure, fugacity, concentration, activity coeff times concentration, mole fraction, and mole fraction times activity coeff. Is there any source that makes sense of this?

You will need to look at more advanced thermodynamics books for discussion of things like this. Lewis and Randall (Pitzer and Brewer) "Thermodynamics" has a lot of discussion of these things, though the language is kind of stilted. Another, more modern, textbook is Berry, Rice and Ross "Matter in Equilibrium"

Basically, all of these things are things that are used that take into account the behavior of real species, as compared to their ideal counterparts.
 
Smith and van ness is also a good book that covers all of this.
 

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