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This book develops the theory of chemical thermodynamics from first principles, demonstrates its relevance across scientific and engineering disciplines, and shows how thermodynamics can be used as a practical tool for understanding natural phenomenon and developing and improving technologies and products.
List of contents
1. Introduction. 2. Fundamental Concepts. 3. Gases. 4. The First Law. 5. Sources of Thermodynamic Data for Substances. 6. Some Applications of the First Law. 7. The Second and Third Laws. 8. Gibbs and Helmholtz Energy. 9. Mixtures and Solutions. 10. Reactive Systems: Single Reactions. 11. Aqueous Solutions. 12. Gibbs Energy Application to Metal Production. 13. Phase Equilibria: Nonreactive Systems. 14. Phase Equilibria: Reactive Systems. 15. Complex Equilibria. 16. Electrochemistry. 17. Some Applications of Electrochemistry.
About the author
W. John Rankin has BSc and PhD degrees from the University of Queensland, Australia. He worked initially for MINTEK, then lectured in extractive metallurgy and chemical engineering at the University of Stellenbosh (both in South Africa), the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Australia), and the University of Waterloo (Canada). During the 1990s, he was Professorial Research Fellow and Director of the G.K. Williams Cooperative Research Centre for Extractive Metallurgy at the University of Melbourne. Later, he accepted a position in CSIRO (Australia's national science agency) and held the role of Chief Scientist of the Division of Process Science and Engineering. His research interests are in the fields of thermodynamics, pyrometallurgy, and the implications of sustainability for the minerals industry. He has published over 130 research papers, authored the book Minerals, Metals and Sustainability: Meeting Future Material Needs (CRC Press), and edited the third edition of the Australasian Mining and Metallurgical Operating Practices (published by the AusIMM). He is co-editor of the journal Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy, Adjunct Professor (Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne), and Honorary Fellow (CSIRO).
Summary
This book develops the theory of chemical thermodynamics from first principles, demonstrates its relevance across scientific and engineering disciplines, and shows how thermodynamics can be used as a practical tool for understanding natural phenomenon and developing and improving technologies and products.
