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Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics in Chromatography and Electrophoresis

by Liang Heng

Published 15 June 2019

This is the first book on non-equilibrium thermodynamics. It covers a gap that has been left by the treatment of separation processes using classical thermodynamics. Because separation phenomena are dynamic processes, classical thermodynamics may not describe the true phenomena occurring in a particular separation media; rather a flux of entropy will bring the system out of the classical equilibrium and, as a consequence, different rules should apply – non-equilibrium thermodynamics. This book offers a different look at the theory of separation.