Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics

Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics: Transport and Rate Processes in Physical, Chemical and Biological Systems, Fifth Edition emphasizes the unifying role of thermodynamics in analyzing natural phenomena. This fully revised and updated new edition expands on the fourth edition by focusing on sustainable engineering with thermodynamics tools and techniques, fundamentals of energy analysis, process intensification, information processing that use thermodynamics principles, and artificial intelligence and thermodynamics. This fifth edition has a novel focus on thermodynamics for sustainable engineering, so as to help engineers better address sustainability in their engineering practice, that will expand or include new material about process intensification and energy analysis. Another turn in engineering is related to digitalization of engineering, both regarding the manufactured devices and regarding the way engineers design these devices, which is addressed in this new edition by discussion of issues relating to thermodynamics and artificial intelligence. Fully revised and updated new editionIncludes new content on sustainable engineering with thermodynamics tools and techniques, fundamentals of energy analysis, process intensification, information processing that use thermodynamics principles, and artificial intelligence and thermodynamicsHighlights the fundamentals of equilibrium and nonequilibrium thermodynamics and their use in transport processes and chemical reactions in physical, chemical and biological systemsPresents a unified analysis for transport and rate processes in various time and space scalesDiscusses stochastic approaches in thermodynamic analysis, including fluctuation and information theories, mesoscopic nonequilibrium thermodynamics, constructal law and quantum thermodynamics, sustainable engineering, process intensification, energy, and exergy analysisContains many fully solved examples and many practice problemsInstructor Resource containing the ‘Solution Manual’ available via the authors