Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics: Transport and Rate Processes in Physical, Chemical and Biological Systems

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 multi-scale 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. The fifth edition updates and revises most of the chapters of the fourth edition in six sections: Section 1: Fundamentals of Thermodynamics, Section 2: Fundamentals of Coupled Transport and Rate Processes, Section 3: Biological Systems, Section 4: Organized Structures, Section 5: Stochastic Systems, and Section 6: Sustainable Engineering, which emphasize the role of thermodynamics in 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 in 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. Highlights fundamentals of equilibrium thermodynamics and phase equilibriaExpands the theory of nonequilibrium thermodynamics and its use in coupled reaction and transport processes in various time and space scales of physical, chemical, and biological systemsDiscusses self-organized dissipative structures, quantum thermodynamics, information theory, and stochastic approaches in thermodynamic analysis including fluctuation theories and molecular motorsIncludes new content on sustainable engineering with thermodynamics tools and techniques including of energy analysis, process intensification, and artificial intelligencePresents many fully solved examples and numerous practice problemsOffers an instructor resources containing a solution manual that can be obtained from the authors INDICE: Section 1: Fundamentals of thermodynamics 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

• ISBN: 978-0-443-22149-1
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 900
• Fecha Publicación: 01/01/2025
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés