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Heats of Reaction: Screencasts

Explains how to determine heats of reaction at 298 K from heats of formation and how to calculate heats of reaction at elevated temperatures.

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Explains Hess’s law and provides an example of how to use it to solve for the heat of reaction for an equation.

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Uses Hess’s law to show how heat of combustion is used to calculate the heat of reaction. 

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Important Equations:

ΔHrxn=νiΔHf,i

where ΔHrxn= heat of reaction at 298 K, νi= stoichiometric coefficient for component i, and ΔHf,i= heat of formation (enthalpy of formation) or species i at 298 K.

ΔHreaction,T=ΔHreaction,298+298TΔCPdT

Heat capacity (J/(mol K)) can be of the form

CP,i=Ai+BiT+CiT2+DiT3

where CP,i is the heat capacity of component i, Ai,Bi,Ci,andDi are the constants for the heat capacity equation for component i, and T is temperature in Kelvin.

ΔCP=νiCP,i

ΔHreaction,T=ΔHreaction,298+νiAi(T298+νiBi2(T2298)+νiCi3(T32983)+νiDi4(T4298)

ΔHreaction,T=ΔHC,reactantΔHC,product

where ΔHC,reactant is the heat of combustion of a reactant at standard states, and ΔHC,product is the heat of combustion of a product at standard states.