Complexity and Complex Chemo-Electric Systems
- 1st Edition - February 9, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Author: Stanislaw Sieniutycz
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 3 4 6 0 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 3 6 3 6 - 9
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Request a sales quoteComplexity and Complex Chemo-Electric Systems presents an analysis and synthesis of chemo-electric systems, providing insights on transports in electrolytes, electrode reactions, electrocatalysis, electrochemical membranes, and various aspects of heterogeneous systems and electrochemical engineering. The book describes the properties of complexity and complex chemo-electric systems as the consequence of formulations, definitions, tools, solutions and results that are often consistent with the best performance of the system. The book handles cybernetics, systems theory and advanced contemporary techniques such as optimal control, neural networks and stochastic optimizations (adaptive random search, genetic algorithms, and simulated annealing).
A brief part of the book is devoted to issues such as various definitions of complexity, hierarchical structures, self-organization examples, special references, and historical issues. This resource complements Sieniutycz’ recently published book, Complexity and Complex Thermodynamic Systems, with its inclusion of complex chemo-electric systems in which complexities, emergent properties and self-organization play essential roles.
- Covers the theory and applications of complex chemo-electric systems through modeling, analysis, synthesis and optimization
- Provides a clear presentation of the applications of transport theory to electrolyte solutions, heterogeneous electrochemical systems, membranes, electro-kinetic phenomena and interface processes
- Includes numerous explanatory graphs and drawings that illustrate the properties and complexities in complex chemo-electric systems
- Written by an experienced expert in the field of advanced methods in thermodynamics and related aspects of macroscopic physics
Students at university and researchers and (chemical) engineers in industry working on applied electrochemistry and electrochemical energy sources. Researchers in industry involved in electrolysis, linked with chemical or other processes, e.g. chemical transformation or purification of outcoming streams
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: Complexity in abstract and physical systems
- Abstract
- 1.1: Problem formulation
- 1.2: Some historical aspects
- 1.3: Spontaneously created complexities
- 1.4: Complex thermodynamic systems
- 1.5: Equipment complexity
- Chapter 2: Examples of complex states and complex transformations
- Abstract
- 2.1: Instabilities in liquids
- 2.2: Turbulence and randomness in fluid mechanics
- 2.3: Complexities in chemically reacting systems
- 2.4: Optical instabilities (Badii and Politii, 1997)
- 2.5: Growth and aging phenomena (Badii and Politii, 1997, Sec. 2.5, pp. 23–24)
- Chapter 3: Heylighen's enlarged view of growing complexities in evolution
- Abstract
- 3.1: Introduction
- 3.2: What is complexity?
- 3.3: Evolutionary mechanisms
- 3.4: The growth of structural complexity (Heylighen, 1996)
- 3.5: Self-reinforcing structural complexification
- 3.6: The growth of functional complexity
- 3.7: Self-reinforcing functional complexification
- 3.8: Selection for simplicity?
- 3.9: The direction of evolution
- 3.10: Conclusion and final remarks
- Chapter 4: Selected aspects of complexity in biological systems
- Abstract
- 4.1: Fractal erythrocytes vs COVID-19
- 4.2: Bejan's pulsating physiologies
- 4.3: Thermostatistics of helix-coil transitions
- 4.4: Biochemical cycles in living cells
- 4.5: Sequence-structure relations in proteins
- 4.6: Complexity in self-organization, evolution, and life
- Chapter 5: Modeling and optimal control of bioelectrochemical systems
- Abstract
- 5.1: Introduction
- 5.2: Dynamic modeling of bioelectrochemical systems
- 5.3: Control and optimization of BESs
- 5.4: Perspectives
- Chapter 6: Hierarchical scaling complexities: Badii and Politi, 1997, their Ch 9, p. 249
- Abstract
- 6.1: Diversity of trees
- 6.2: Effective-measure and forecasting complexity
- 6.3: Topological exponents
- 6.4: Convergence and predictions of Badii and Politi model
- 6.5: Scaling function
- 6.6: Mathematicians and their fractal word
- 6.7: Summary and perspectives (Badii and Politi, 1997, mainly Ch. 10)
- Chapter 7: Modeling power yield in thermal, chemical, and electrochemical systems
- Abstract
- 7.1: Introduction
- 7.2: Carnot controls in power yield systems
- 7.3: Energy systems with internal imperfections
- 7.4: Dynamical energy yield: General issues
- 7.5: Dynamical energy yield: Radiation systems
- 7.6: Finite-rate exergies and finite resources
- 7.7: Some HJB equations for energy systems
- 7.8: Solutions of HJB equations for energy systems
- 7.9: Rate-dependent exergies as optimal work functions
- 7.10: Toward chemical power systems
- 7.11: Steady-state fuel cells
- 7.12: Concluding remarks
- Chapter 8: Fuels, catalysts, wastes, and poisons in chemo-electric systems
- Abstract
- 8.1: Kinetics of contact (catalytic) reactions
- 8.2: Kinetics of surface processes
- 8.3: External diffusion
- 8.4: Internal diffusion
- 8.5: Chemical networks for complex chemistries
- 8.6: Anode-supported SOFC for determination of poisoning limits
- 8.7: Conclusions
- 8.8: Generalized equations for linear catalyst deactivation
- 8.9: Life processes running under enzymes as biological catalysts
- Chapter 9: Modeling of chemo-electro-mechanical coupling
- Abstract
- 9.1: Motivation, aims, and scope
- 9.2: Continuous problem of chemo-electro-mechanics
- 9.3: Discrete problem of chemo-electro-mechanics
- 9.4: Constitutive equations of chemo-electro-mechanics
- 9.5: Examples
- 9.6: Discussion
- 9.7: Basic properties of constitutive equations of the chemo-electrical problem
- 9.8: Sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium: Concentrations, currents, and gating variables
- Glossary
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: February 9, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 320
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128234600
- eBook ISBN: 9780128236369
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Stanislaw Sieniutycz
Stanislaw Sieniutycz is a former member of the Committee of Engineering at the Polish Academy of Sciences and also a professor of chemical engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology, Poland. His research focuses on problems of chemical, environmental, ecological, and biomechanical engineering with emphasis on analysis, control, and optimization of these systems. He is a former member of the Editorial Board of Open System and Information Dynamics and an honorary editor of the Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics. He has served as an associate editor of Advances in Thermodynamics Series and Energy & Conversion Management. He has published 12 books, 250 articles, and 152 conference papers. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Budapest, University of Bern, University of San Diego, University of Delaware, and University of Chicago.
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Professor of Chemical Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Chemical and Process Engineering, PolandRead Complexity and Complex Chemo-Electric Systems on ScienceDirect