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Designed as an undergraduate textbook, this concise and systematically organized text deals primarily with the thermodynamics of systems involving physico-chemical processes and chemical reactions, such as calculations of enthalpy, entropy and free energy changes of processes; thermodynamic properties of solutions; chemical and phase equilibria; and thermodynamics of surfaces, interfaces and defects. The major emphasis is on high-temperature systems and processes involving metals and inorganic compounds.
The many worked examples, diagrams, and tables that illustrate the concepts discussed, and chapter-end problems that stimulate self-study should enable the students to study the subject with enhanced interest.
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AHINDRA GHOSH, holder of a Doctorate of Science (ScD) degree in Metallurgical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, is one of India’s most renowned academicians in the area of Process Metallurgy. He had been engaged in teaching thermodynamics, kinetics and transport phenomena, with specific research emphasis on application of these areas to ironmaking and steelmaking, for almost four decades at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He also interacted with steel plants extensively, and is continuing to do so even after retirement.
Professor Ghosh during his academic career guided many research students and scholars. He has to his credit five books and ninety original research publications in reviewed journals.
