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% Tutorial 4:   Chemical Equilibrium
%
%   Topics:
%     - the equilibrate method
%     - specifying fixed TP, HP, UV, SV, or SP
%     - checking reaction rates of progress
%
help tut4

% To set a gas mixture to a state of chemical equilibrium, use the
% 'equilibrate' method.
%
g = GRI30;
set(g,'T',1200.0,'P',oneatm,'X','CH4:0.95,O2:2,N2:7.52')
equilibrate(g,'TP')

% The above statement sets the state of object 'g' to the state of
% chemical equilibrium holding temperature and pressure
% fixed. Alternatively, the specific enthalpy and pressure can be held
% fixed:

disp('fixed H and P:');
set(g,'T',1200.0,'P',oneatm,'X','CH4:0.95,O2:2.0,N2:7.52');
equilibrate(g,'HP')


% Other options are
%     'UV'   fixed specific internal energy and specific volume
%     'SV'   fixed specific entropy and specific volume
%     'SP'   fixed specific entropy and pressure

disp('fixed U and V:');
set(g,'T',1200.0,'P',oneatm,'X','CH4:0.95,O2:2,N2:7.52');
equilibrate(g,'UV')

disp('fixed S and V:');
set(g,'T',1200.0,'P',oneatm,'X','CH4:0.95,O2:2,N2:7.52');
equilibrate(g,'SV')

disp('fixed S and P:');
set(g,'T',1200.0,'P',oneatm,'X','CH4:0.95,O2:2,N2:7.52');
equilibrate(g,'SP')

% How can you tell if 'equilibrate' has correctly found the
% chemical equilibrium state? One way is verify that the net rates of
% progress of all reversible reactions are zero.

% Here is the code to do this:
set(g,'T',2000.0,'P',oneatm,'X','CH4:0.95,O2:2,N2:7.52');
equilibrate(g,'TP')
rf = rop_f(g);
rr = rop_r(g);
format short e;
for i = 1:nReactions(g)
   if isReversible(g,i)
      disp([i, rf(i), rr(i), (rf(i) - rr(i))/rf(i)]);
      end
end


% You might be wondering how 'equilibrate' works. (Then again, you might
% not, in which case you can go on to the next tutorial now.)  Method
% 'equilibrate' invokes Cantera's chemical equilibrium solver, which
% uses an element potential method. The element potential method is
% one of a class of equivalent 'nonstoichiometric' methods that all
% have the characteristic that the problem reduces to solving a set of
% M nonlinear algebraic equations, where M is the number of elements
% (not species). The so-called 'stoichiometric' methods, on the other
% hand, (including Gibbs minimization), require solving K nonlinear
% equations, where K is the number of species (usually K >> M). See
% Smith and Missen, "Chemical Reaction Equilibrium Analysis" for more
% information on the various algorithms and their characteristics.
%
% Cantera uses a damped Newton method to solve these equations, and
% does a few other things to generate a good starting guess and to
% produce a reasonably robust algorithm. If you want to know more
% about the details, look at the on-line documented source code of
% Cantera C++ class 'ChemEquil' at http://www.cantera.org. 

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clear all
cleanup
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%   end of tutorial 4
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