a switch in chemical potential calculation

[broshe]

I calculated the chemical potential in of Fe in Al-Fe liquid.
Here is the code:
db = Database('alfe_sei.TDB')
data = equilibrium(db, ['FE', 'AL'], 'LIQUID', {v.X('FE'): .2, v.T: Trange, v.P: 1e5},verbose=False)
muFe=data['MU'].sel( component='FE').data[0][0][0]
print('Mu(Fe)=',muFe)

The output is
MuFe=-133484.35563831546

Now, this is not what I got from thermo-calc with the same calculation.
Interestingly, the value of -133484.356 is the chemical potential of Al for the same conditions.
So, perhaps pycalphad somehow switched between the two potentials.

Best regards,
Eli

[richardotis]

Hi Eli, what is the value of Trange?

[broshe]

Sorry,
Trange=2000 (K)

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Hi Eli, what is the value of Trange?

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[richardotis]

Okay, I can reproduce your value. Can you tell me what Thermo-Calc's value for MU(Fe) is?

[broshe]

POLY_3:s-c t=2000 x(fe)=.2 p=1e5 n=1
POLY_3:ch_st ph *=sus
POLY_3:ch_st ph liquid=ent 0
POLY_3:l-c
T=2000, X(FE)=0.2, P=1E5, N=1
DEGREES OF FREEDOM 0
POLY_3:c-e
Using global minimization procedure
Calculated 137 grid points in 0 s
Found the set of lowest grid points in 0 s
Calculated POLY solution 0 s, total time 0 s
POLY_3:show mu(fe)

• MU(FE)=-184306.01*
  POLY_3:show mu(al)
  MU(AL)=-133815.12

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Okay, I can reproduce your value. Can you tell me what Thermo-Calc's value
for MU(Fe) is?

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[richardotis]

You appear to be correct. I've also checked the energy surface and the error becomes self-evident. I'll investigate this further.

[richardotis]

The overall molar Gibbs energy I compute at 2000 K and X(Fe) = 0.2 is -144066.749. Does Thermo-Calc get close to that value? I'm trying to figure out if this issue is just a display error or if there's a more serious bug in the equilibrium engine.

[broshe]

Thermo-calc gives:
GM=-143913.3

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The overall molar energy I compute at 2000 K and X(Fe) = 0.2 is
-144066.749. Does Thermo-Calc get close to that value? I'm trying to
figure out if this issue is just a display error or if there's a more
serious bug in the equilibrium engine.

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[richardotis]

As you suggested this looks like an error with sorting component names. If you change your condition to X(AL)=0.8, which should be equivalent, the chemical potentials are now the same as Thermo-Calc and the reported energy is -143913.2912436. What appears to be happening is pycalphad is flipping the component names around, so the equilibrium it's reporting is for X(FE)=0.8. The result is correct, just for the wrong conditions. I will write a fix and test and ping you when the bugfix release is pushed out.

[broshe]

Thanks Richard,
I tried the calculation with x(Al)=0.8 instead of x(Fe)=.2. This gives the
correct results.
Eli

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As you suggested this looks like an error with sorting component names. If
you change your condition to X(AL)=0.8, which should be equivalent, the
chemical potentials are now the same as Thermo-Calc and the reported energy
is -143913.2912436. What appears to be happening is pycalphad is flipping
the component names around, so the equilibrium it's reporting is for
X(FE)=0.8. The result is correct, just for the wrong conditions. I will
write a fix and test and ping you when the bugfix release is pushed out.

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[richardotis]

@broshe pycalphad 0.2.1 has been released, which includes a fix for this issue. pip install -U pycalphad to update. Please let me know if this resolves your issue. (Make sure the value of pycalphad.__version__ when you print it is 0.2.1, after the update.)

By the way, these are exactly the kinds of bugs I'm looking to find, so please keep on reporting and I'll fix them as quickly as I can.

[broshe]

Hi Richard,
I tried to install the new pycalphad
by using
pip install -U pycalphad
or
pip3 install -U pycalphad

In both cases the installation failed.
The log file is attached.
What can be done?

Thanks,
Eli

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@broshe https://github.com/broshe pycalphad 0.2.1 has been released,
which includes a fix for this issue. pip install -U pycalphad to update.
Please let me know if this resolves your issue. (Make sure the value of
pycalphad.version when you print it is 0.2.1, after the update.)

By the way, these are exactly the kinds of bugs I'm looking to find, so
please keep on reporting and I'll fix them as quickly as I can.

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