Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics
Transport and Rate Processes in Physical, Chemical and Biological Systems
- 5th Edition - February 17, 2025
- Latest edition
- Authors: Yasar Demirel, Vincent Gerbaud
- Language: English
This fully updated and revised fifth edition of Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics: Transport and Rate Processes in Physical, Chemical, and Biological Systems emphasizes the unifying… Read more
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Description
Description
This fully updated and revised fifth edition of Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics: Transport and Rate Processes in Physical, Chemical, and Biological Systems emphasizes the unifying role of thermodynamics and their use in transport processes and chemical reactions in physical, chemical, and biological systems. This reorganized new edition provides thermodynamical approaches for foundational understanding of natural phenomena with multiscale chemical, physical, and biological systems, consisting of interactive processes leading to self-organized dissipative structures, fluctuations, and instabilities. This edition also emphasizes thermodynamic approaches, tools, and techniques, including energy analysis, process intensification, and artificial intelligence, for undertaking sustainable engineering.
This book will be an excellent resource for graduate students and researchers in the fields of engineering, chemistry, physics, energy, biotechnology, and biology, as well as those whose work involves understanding the evolution of nonequilibrium systems, information theory, stochastic processes, and sustainable engineering. This may also be useful to professionals working in irreversibility, dissipative structures, process exergy analysis and thermoeconomics, digitalization in manufacturing, and data processing.
Key features
Key features
- Highlights the fundamentals of equilibrium thermodynamics and phase equilibria
- Expands the theory of nonequilibrium thermodynamics and its use in coupled reactions and transport processes in various time and space scales of physical, chemical, and biological systems
- Discusses self-organized dissipative structures, quantum thermodynamics, information theory, and stochastic approaches in thermodynamic analysis, including fluctuation theories and molecular motors
- Includes new content on sustainable engineering with thermodynamics tools and techniques, including energy analysis, process intensification, and artificial intelligence
- Presents many fully solved examples and numerous practice problems
- Offers instructor resources containing a solution manual that can be obtained from the authors
Readership
Readership
Graduate students, scientists, and researchers in chemical engineering, chemistry, physics, energy, biotechnology, and biology, Energy scientists and researchers for energy analysis, process intensification, industry 4.0, Professionals in manufacturing, information, and data processing, Computer scientists dealing with information, data processing, Economists dealing with artefacts engineered on a sustainable design basis at pilot scale and large plant scale
Table of contents
Table of contents
1. Fundamentals of equilibrium thermodynamics
2. Transport and rate processes
3. Fundamentals of nonequilibrium thermodynamics
Section 2: Sustainable engineering
4. Sustainable engineering: thermodynamic analysis
5. Thermoeconomics
Section 3: Coupled transport and rate processes
6. Diffusion
7. Heat and mass transfer
8. Chemical reactions
9. Coupled systems of chemical reactions and transport processes
10. Membrane transport
Section 4: Biological Systems
11. Thermodynamics and biological systems
12. Stability analysis
Section 5: Organized structures
13. Organized structures
Section 6: Stochastic systems
14. Nonequilibrium thermodynamics approaches
15. Probabilistic approach in thermodynamics
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 5
- Latest edition
- Published: July 3, 2025
- Language: English
About the authors
About the authors
YD
Yasar Demirel
VG