Electrochemical Engineering: Science and Technology in Chemical and Other Industries

ISBN-13: 9783540643869 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 408 str.

Hartmut Wendt; G. Kreysa; Gerhard Kreysa

Opis

Electrochemical Engineering sounds very much like chemical engineering, but the chemists, electro chemists, material scientists and whoever else comes into touch with technical electrochemical systems very soon gets the feeling, that chemical engineering wisdom will not get them very far in enhancing their un derstanding and helping them to solve their problems with technical electro chemical devices. Indeed not only the appearance of but also the physics and physical chemistry in electrochemical reactors - electrolyzers, batteries or fuel cells and others - are quite different from that of normal chemical reactors. Next to interfacial charge transfer and current density distributions is the relatively high importance of mass transfer and its hindrance in liquid electrolytes which distinguishes electrolyzers from chemical reactors. Therefore electrochemical engineering science became a science branch which at first developed with little reference to chemical engineering treating the relevant topics on a high mathe maticallevel. This has led to a certain perfection, which today - in principl- allows us to model almost any desired electrolyzer or cell configuration with nu merical methods to a degree and precision which satisfies the highest demands. This is classical chemical engineering stuff, which, however, neglects the chem ical side of electrochemical technology."

Spis treści

1 The Scope and History of Electrochemical Engineering.- 2 Basic Principles and Laws in Electrochemistry.- 3 Electrochemical Thermodynamics.- 4 Electrode Kinetics and Electrocatalysis.- 5 Mass Transfer by Fluid Flow, Convective Diffusion and Ionic Electricity Transport in Electrolytes and Cells.- 6 Electrochemical Reaction Engineering.- 7 Electrochemical Engineering of Porous Electrodes and Disperse Multiphase Electrolyte Systems.- 8 Electrochemical Cell and Plant Engineering.- 9 Process Development.- 10 Industrial Electrodes.- 11 Industrial Processes.- 12 Fuel Cells.

O autorze

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Kreysa befaßte sich nach seinem Chemiestudium und Promotion seit 1973 mit Themen der Technischen Elektrochemie und des Umweltschutzes am Karl-Winnacker-Institut der DECHEMA (Frankfurt/Main). Mehrere wissenschaftliche Auszeichnungen im In- und Ausland, Ehrendoktorate der Technischen Universität Clausthal und der Königlich-Technischen Hochschule Stockholm. Lehrstuhlinhaber an den Universitäten Dortmund und Regensburg. 1992 Übernahme der DECHEMA -Geschäftsführung. Arbeit - auch in Ehrenämtern - zu Fragen der Forschungsförderung und der Akzeptanz von Naturwissenschaft und Technik in der Gesellschaft.