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Thermodynamics

An Advanced Textbook for Chemical Engineers

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  • © 1989

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Authors:
  1. Gianni Astarita

    1. University of Delaware, Newark, USA
      University of Naples, Naples, Italy

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

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      Pages 1-7

  3. Macroscopic Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. First and Second Laws

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      Pages 11-33

    3. State and Equilibrium

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      Pages 35-66

    4. Homogeneous Reactions

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      Pages 67-99

    5. Phases

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      Pages 101-129

    6. Thermodynamics of Relaxation

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      Pages 131-154

    7. Surface Thermodynamics

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      Pages 155-165

    8. Dissipative Phenomena

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      Pages 167-203

  4. Engineering Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205
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    2. Equations of State

      • Gianni Astarita
      Pages 207-242

    3. Phase Equilibria

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      Pages 243-267

    4. Chemical Equilibria

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      Pages 269-289

    5. Electrochemistry

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      Pages 291-318

    6. Polymers

      • Giuseppe Marrucci
      Pages 319-363

    7. Thermodynamics of Electromagnetism

      • R. E. Rosensweig
      Pages 365-438

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 439-444
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About this book

If a Writer would know how to behave himself with relation to Posterity; let him consider in old Books, what he finds, that he is glad to know; and what Omissions he most laments. Jonathan Swift This book emerges from a long story of teaching. I taught chemical engineering thermodynamics for about ten years at the University of Naples in the 1960s, and I still remember the awkwardness that I felt about any textbook I chose to consider-all of them seemed to be vague at best, and the standard of logical rigor seemed immensely inferior to what I could find in books on such other of the students in my first class subjects as calculus and fluid mechanics. One (who is now Prof. F. Gioia of the University of Naples) once asked me a question which I have used here as Example 4. 2-more than 20 years have gone by, and I am still waiting for a more intelligent question from one of my students. At the time, that question compelled me to answer in a way I didn't like, namely "I'll think about it, and I hope I'll have the answer by the next time we meet. " I didn't have it that soon, though I did manage to have it before the end of the course.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Delaware, Newark, USA

    Gianni Astarita

  • University of Naples, Naples, Italy

    Gianni Astarita

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Thermodynamics

  • Book Subtitle: An Advanced Textbook for Chemical Engineers

  • Authors: Gianni Astarita

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0771-4

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1989

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-43048-0Published: 31 March 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-0773-8Published: 19 June 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-0771-4Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 444

  • Topics: Thermodynamics, Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer

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