Thermochemistry and chemical thermodynamics

High pressures play a more and more important role in modern technology.

An important challenge brought to chemical engineering by new emerging technologies, in particular then by nano and bio technologies, is to deal with complex systems that cannot be dealt with and cannot be fully understood on a single scale.

The applications and interest in thermal analysis and calorimetry have grown enormously during the last half of the 20th century.

Science of Heat and Thermophysical Studies provides a non-traditional bridging of historical, philosophical, societal and scientific aspects of heat with a comprehensive approach to the field of generalized thermodynamics.

Demonstrates how the tools of physical chemistry can be applied to biological questions, with numerous exercises and clearly-worked examples.

This book is an introduction to statistical mechanics, intended for advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate students.

Thermodynamics is fundamental to university and college curricula in chemistry, physics, engineering and many life sciences around the world.

Get up to speed with the future of logic switch design with this indispensable introduction to post-CMOS technologies.

The book discusses the sciences of operations, converting raw materials into desired products on an industrial scale by applying chemical transformations and other industrial technologies.

Solution Thermodynamics and its Application to Aqueous Solutions: A Differential Approach, Second Edition introduces a differential approach to solution thermodynamics, applying it to the study of aqueous solutions.

Many data needed for problem solving in Chemical Engineering are dispersed over the literature.

This unique book provides a fundamental introduction to all aspects of modern plasma chemistry.

This book is part of a set of books which offers advanced students successive characterization tool phases, the study of all types of phase (liquid, gas and solid, pure or multi-component), process engineering, chemical and electrochemical equilibria, and the properties of surfaces and phases of small sizes.

Chemistry of High-Energy Materials continues in this new and revised 3rd edition to provide fundamental scientific insights into primary and secondary explosives, propellants, rocket fuel and pyrotechnics.

This book presents basic information about combustion, mostly in the form of examples.

This book is for chemical engineers, fuel technologists, agricultural engineers and chemists in the world-wide energy industry and in academic, research and government institutions.

This novel, interdisciplinary text presents biological understanding in terms of general underlying principles, treating energy as the overarching theme and emphasizing the all-pervading influence of energy transformation in every process, both living and non-living.

The book begins with an overview of the phase diagrams of fluid mixtures (fluid = liquid, gas, or supercritical state), which can show an astonishing variety when elevated pressures are taken into account; phenomena like retrograde condensation (single and double) and azeotropy (normal and double) are discussed.

Since the discovery of the transistor in 1948, the study of the solid state has been burgeoning.

This book is the first to detail the chemical changes that occur in deforming materials subjected to unequal compressions.

Phase Diagrams and Thermodynamic Modeling of Solutions provides readers with an understanding of thermodynamics and phase equilibria that is required to make full and efficient use of these tools.

The book covers recent developments in the theory of non-equilibrium thermodynamics and its applications.

This book explains molecular solution modeling utilising the potential distribution theorem.

A comprehensive overview and summary of recent achievements and the latest trends in bioinspired thermal materials.

A comprehensive overview and summary of recent achievements and the latest trends in bioinspired thermal materials.

Containing the very latest information on all aspects of enthalpy and internal energy as related to fluids, this book brings all the information into one authoritative survey in this well-defined field of chemical thermodynamics.

Thermochemical surface engineering significantly improves the properties of steels.

Natural phenomena consist of simultaneously occurring transport processes and chemical reactions.

Thermal physics deals with collections of large numbers of particles - typically 10 to the 23rd power or so.

This book provides a fundamental description of multiphase fluid flow through porous rock, based on understanding movement at the pore, or microscopic, scale.

Demonstrates how the tools of physical chemistry can be applied to biological questions, with numerous exercises and clearly-worked examples.

Natural phenomena consist of simultaneously occurring transport processes and chemical reactions.

A treatment of the transport and transfer processes of heat, mass and momentum in terms of their analogy.

Combustion science in general and combustion chemistry in particular, have seen a resurgence of interest in recent years due to the importance of energy and pollution problems in modern society.

Propellants and Explosives Explosives and propellants are termed energetic materials for containing considerable chemical energy which can be converted into rapid expansion.

This book is part of a set of books which offers advanced students successive characterization tool phases, the study of all types of phase (liquid, gas and solid, pure or multi-component), process engineering, chemical and electrochemical equilibria, and the properties of surfaces and phases of small sizes.

Technologies for hazardous waste destruction (including nuclear, hospital and chemical waste) based on thermal plasma processes: state of the art and perspectives.

This book summarizes the salient features of both equilibrium and steady-state thermodynamic theory under a uniform postulatory viewpoint.

Published under the auspices of both IUPAC and its affiliated body, the International Association of Chemical Thermodynamics (IACT), this book will serve as a guide to scientists or technicians who use equations of state for fluids.

This much-needed book presents a clear and very practice-oriented overview of thermal separation processes.

Follow step-by-step explanations to understand mathematical models - algebraic and differential equations - of chemical reactors and how numerical models workin computer implementation.

"e;Drysdale's book is by far the most comprehensive - everyone in the office has a copy.

Many data needed for problem solving in Chemical Engineering are dispersed over the literature.