Publisher's Synopsis
Mechanical kinetics constitutes one of the basic subjects of metallurgical engineering. This presents the kinetics of metallurgical processes in a compressive fashion.Organised into 14 chapters, the book begins with an introduction to the basic concepts. It then discusses the kinetics of homogeneous and heterogeneous chemical reactions with some real-life examples from the metallurgical field. The book also covers diffusion, convective mass transfer and mixing in fluids, and mass transfer in fluids adjacent to a solid surface.Several important processes in metallurgical and materials engineering involve reactions of porous solids with gases. The book discusses this with the help of two important reactions - reduction of iron ores and gasification of carbon. It also deals with mass transfer among two fields and presents the kinetics of electrochemical reactions and phase transformation.The book also contains numerical worked-out examples and problems. The appendix provides important data useful for solving problems in kinetics.
