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The thermochemistry library ChemApp and its applications

  • Stephan Petersen and Klaus Hack
Published/Copyright: May 23, 2013
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Abstract

ChemApp is a thermochemical software library which enables the user to perform thermochemical calculations across a wide spectrum of applications by providing an easily programmable interface to complex equilibrium calculation techniques for multicomponent, multiphase chemical systems. ChemApp is described, and an overview of selected application examples from areas such as metallurgy, gas phase and aqueous chemistry, combustion technology, corrosion, geochemistry, and more is given.


* Correspondence address, Dr.-Ing. Stephan Petersen, GTT-Technologies, Kaiserstraße 100, D-52134 Herzogenrath, Germany, Tel.: +49 2407 59 533, Fax: +49 2407 59661, E-mail:

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Received: 2007-3-30
Accepted: 2007-7-20
Published Online: 2013-05-23
Published in Print: 2007-10-01

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