Thermodynamic Approaches in Engineering Systems

Thermodynamic Approaches in Engineering Systems responds to the need for a synthesizing volume that throws light upon the extensive field of thermodynamics from a chemical engineering perspective that applies basic ideas and key results from the field to chemical engineering problems. This book outlines and interprets the most valuable achievements in applied non-equilibrium thermodynamics obtained within the recent fifty years. It synthesizes nontrivial achievements of thermodynamics in important branches of chemical and biochemical engineering. Readers will gain an update on what has been achieved, what new research problems could be stated, and what kind of further studies should be developed within specialized research.
- Presents clearly structured chapters beginning with an introduction, elaboration of the process, and results summarized in a conclusion
- Written by a first-class expert in the field of advanced methods in thermodynamics
- Provides a synthesis of recent thermodynamic developments in practical systems
- Presents very elaborate literature discussions from the past fifty years

Stanislaw Sieniutycz is a former member of the Committee of Engineering at the Polish Academy of Sciences and also a professor of chemical engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology, Poland. His research focuses on problems of chemical, environmental, ecological, and biomechanical engineering with emphasis on analysis, control, and optimization of these systems. He is a former member of the Editorial Board of Open System and Information Dynamics and an honorary editor of the Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics. He has served as an associate editor of Advances in Thermodynamics Series and Energy & Conversion Management. He has published 12 books, 250 articles, and 152 conference papers. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Budapest, University of Bern, University of San Diego, University of Delaware, and University of Chicago.

1. Contemporary thermodynamics for engineering systems2. Variational approaches to non-equilibrium thermodynamics3. Wave equations of heat and mass transfer4. Classical and anomalous diffusion 5. Thermodynamic Lapunov functions and stability 6. Analysing drying operations in thermodynamic diagrams 7. Frictional fluid flow through inhomogeneous porous bed 8. Thermodynamics and optimization of practical processes 9. Thermodynamic controls in chemical reactors10. Power limits in thermo-chemical units, fuel cells and separation systems 11. Thermodynamic aspects of engineering biosystems 12. Multiphase flow systems 13. Radiation and solar systems14. Appendix: A causal theory of hydrodynamics and heat transfer