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Transport Processes in Applied Chemistry. The Flow of Physical Properties in Chemical Reactors R. C. L. BOSWORT/H.
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 440 Fourth Ave., New York 16, Ν. Υ. 1956. SI 2.00.
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INDUSTRIAL AND ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY
1 any industrial operations m a y be regarded as transport processes on the macroscopic scale, representing summations of a n u m b e r of simul taneous a n d interacting microscopic transport processes such as momen tum flow, diffusion, a n d chemical reaction, each of which gives rise to the irreversible generation of en tropy. By analyzing the entropy production, one can evaluate the relative contribution of each irrever sible process to the inefficiency of the over-all process, a n d thus obtain useful information for attacking the problem of improving over-all effi ciency. T h e b u r d e n of Dr. Bosworth's book, " T r a n s p o r t Processes in Applied Chemistry," is the a p plication of the concept of the " g r a n d transport process" to separational processes, chemical reactors, pre cision tool manufacture, a n d even to the utilization of natural re sources. This stimulating a p p r o a c h should appeal to chemical engineers, industrial chemists, a n d others in terested in the practical aspects of the thermodynamics of irreversible processes. Before discussing irreversibility a n d the grand transport process, the a u t h o r devotes over half of the book to a unified presentation which brings o u t t h e similarities a n d dis similarities of various transport proc esses; all are given a c o m m o n phenomenological description in terms of driving force, flux, resist ance, a n d energy dissipation. T h e scope of this section is indicated by a recital of chapter titles: M e c h a nism of T r a n s p o r t Processes, Phenom enological Description, Potential, T r a n s p o r t by Molecular Motion, R a d i a n t Transfer, Convective T r a n s fer, T u r b u l e n t Transport, Interphase
