Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics of Heterogeneous Systems

Kjelstrup and Bedeaux (both Norwegian U. of Science and Technology) explain how to use non-equilibrium thermodynamics to describe the transport of heat, mass, charge, and chemical reactions through complex, heterogeneous media. Their textbook is designed for a graduate course for physicists, physical chemists, and chemical or mechanical engineers; it assumes a knowledge of basic thermodynamics.

List of contents

General Theory: The Entropy Production for a Homogeneous Phase; The Excess Entropy Production for the Surface; Flux Equations and Onsager Relations; Transport of Heat and Mass; Transport of Mass and Charge; Applications: Evaporation and Condensation; A Non-Isothermal Concentration Cell; Adiabatic Electrode Reactions; The Formation Cell; Modeling the Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell; The Impedance of an Electrode Surface; The Non-Equilibrium Two-Phase van der Waals Model; and other chapters.

Product details

• Authors: Dick Bedeaux, Signe Kjelstrup, Kjelstrup Signe
• Publisher: World Scientific
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• No. of pages: 452
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 228 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 771 g
• Series: Series on Advances in Statisti
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Chemistry > Physical chemistry