
Physics of Cryogenics
An Ultralow Temperature Phenomenon
Description
Key Features
- Defines the fundamentals of thermodynamics that are associated with cryogenic processes
- Provides an overview of the history of the development of cryogenic technology
- Includes new, low temperature tables written by the author
- Deals with the application of cryogenics to preserve objects at very low temperature
- Explains how cryogenic phenomena work for human cell and human body preservations and new medical approaches
Readership
Scientists at universities, graduate and senior undergraduate students in thermodynamics and cryogenic science; researchers and (chemical) engineers in industry working on very low temperature devices
Table of Contents
1. Cryogenics Technologies
2. Properties of Pure Substances
3. Mixtures
4. Work and Heat
5. First Law of Thermodynamics
6. Second Law of Thermodynamics
7. The Kinetic Theory of Gases
8. Reversible Work, Irreversibility, and Exergy (Availability)
9. Gas Kinetic Theory of Entropy
10. Thermodynamic Relations
11. Heat Transfer
12. Concept of Cryogenic, Basic Principles
13. Transport Properties of Solids at Cryogenic State
14. Cryogenic Equipment, Systems, and ApplicationsAppendix A: Tables and Properties of Solids and Fluids at Cryogenic State
Product details
- No. of pages: 726
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2017
- Published: November 17, 2017
- Imprint: Elsevier
- eBook ISBN: 9780128145203
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128145197