Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics For Engineers

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World Scientific, 28. juni 2010 - 272 sider
The book describes in a simple and practical way what non-equilibrium thermodynamics is and how it can add to engineering fields. It explains how to describe proper equations of transport, more precise than used so far, and how to use them to understand the waste of energy resources in central unit processes in the industry. It introduces the entropy balance as an additional equation to use, to create consistent thermodynamic models, and a systematic method for minimizing energy losses that are connected with transport of heat, mass, charge, momentum and chemical reactions.
 

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1 Scope
1
2 Why nonequilibrium thermodynamics?
7
3 The entropy production of onedimensional trans port processes
23
4 Flux equations and transport coefficients
45
5 Nonisothermal multicomponent diffusion
75
6 Systems with shear flow
93
7 Chemical reactions
109
8 The lost work in the aluminum electrolysis
129
9 The state of minimum entropy production and optimal control theory
147
10 The state of minimum entropy production in selected process units
177
Appendix A
207
Bibliography
231
List of Symbols
245
Index
251
About the authors
259
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