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Informationen zum Autor NOEL de NEVERS , PhD, followed five years of working for Chevron with thirty-seven years as a Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department of the University of Utah. His textbooks (and research papers) are in fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and air pollution control engineering. He regularly consults as an expert on explosions, fires, and toxic exposures. In addition to technical work, he has three "de Nevers's Laws" in a Murphy's Laws compilation and won the title "Poet Laureate of Jell-O Salad" in a Salt Lake City competition, with three limericks and a quatrain. He has climbed the Grand Teton, Mt. Rainier, Mt. Whitney, Kala Pattar, and Mt. Kilimanjaro, and is the official discoverer of Private Arch in Arches National Park. Klappentext The most readable, understandable, and intuitively satisfying book on the thermodynamics of physical and chemical equilibriumPhysical and chemical equilibrium and the calculation of the thermodynamic properties of mixtures is a topic of great interest--and importance--to engineers, but it is not always easy to master. Using the simplest mathematics possible, and providing extensive discussion of the theory and practice of equilibrium calculations, the Second Edition of Physical and Chemical Equilibrium for Chemical Engineers provides rigorous but readable, understandable, and intuitively satisfying coverage, showing the reader how to solve common and advanced problems by hand, and by using spreadsheets, and then explains how such problems are solved in computer process design programs.Fully revised and expanded, this new edition explores physical and chemical equilibrium in detail, including a new appendix on the Bridgman Table and its uses, a new chapter on Equilibrium in Biochemical Reactions, and new sections on minimum work, eutectics and hydrates, adsorption, buffers, and the charge-balance method of computing them. Its appendix on Calculation of Fugacities from Pressure-Explicit EOSs clearly shows how modern computer equilibrium programs actually do their work using the SRK and related equations.Providing a concise and highly accessible guide to the thermodynamic properties of a wide range of mixtures, and how these properties control physical and chemical equilibrium, this book is of interest not only to chemical, but also environmental and civil engineers. Large numbers of problems and examples--worked in detail--help the reader integrate the material in this book into his/her working technical toolkit. Physical and Chemical Equilibrium for Chemical Engineers is a must-have for anyone wanting to understand and then apply this important branch of thermodynamics. Zusammenfassung This book concentrates on the topic of physical and chemical equilibrium. Using the simplest mathematics along with numerous numerical examples it accurately and rigorously covers physical and chemical equilibrium in depth and detail. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface xiii About the Author xv Nomenclature xvii 1 Introduction to Equilibrium 1 1.1 Why Study Equilibrium? 1 1.2 Stability and Equilibrium 4 1.3 Time Scales and the Approach to Equilibrium 5 1.4 Looking Ahead, Gibbs Energy 5 1.5 Units, Conversion Factors, and Notation 6 1.6 Reality and Equations 8 1.7 Phases and Phase Diagrams 8 1.8 The Plan of this Book 10 1.9 Summary 10 References 11 2 Basic Thermodynamics 13 2.1 Conservation and Accounting 13 2.2 Conservation of Mass 14 2.3 Conservation of Energy; the First Law of Thermodynamics 15 2.4 The Second Law of Thermodynamics 17 2.4.1 Reversibility 17 2.4.2 Entropy 18 2.5 Convenience Properties 19 2.6 Using the First and Second Laws 19 2.7 Datums and Reference States 21 2.8 Measurable and Immeasurable Properties 22 2.9 Work and Heat 22
