Multi-Scale Modeling and Thermal Analysis of Chemical Processes

A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemical Processes and Systems".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2021) | Viewed by 326

Special Issue Editors

Mines Saint-Etienne, CNRS, UMR 5307 Laboratory Georges Friedel, Centre SPIN, F-42023 Saint-Etienne, France
Interests: heterogeneous kinetics; solid–gas reactions; thermal analysis; reactor design
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Department of Science Education, Division of Educational Sciences, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University, 1-1-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8524, Japan
Interests: thermal analysis; solid-state reactions; heterogeneous kinetics; chemistry education
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Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Sevilla, C.S.I.C–Universidad de Sevilla, C. Américo Vespucio No. 49, 41092 Sevilla, Spain
Interests: solid-state processes; kinetics; materials; thermal energy storage
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Chemical processes are involved in numerous fields, including catalysis, waste treatment, biochemistry, food and polymer sciences, materials processing, and heat storage. Today, sustainable development requires such processes to be more efficient, be more acceptable to society, and leave a smaller environmental impact. To achieve these goals, materials and reactors need to be well-designed and/or optimized based on a detailed description of physical phenomena and chemical reactions. Multi-scale approaches are thereby necessary in order to rely on upward and downward cascades of information between small and larger scales.

Among these various properties, the thermodynamic conditions inside the process are difficult to understand since they are driven not only by the operating conditions but also by the heat and mass transfers, which are influenced in space and time by the chemical reactions that are themselves influenced by thermodynamic conditions. Thus, the process rates and their dependence on thermodynamic parameters (temperature, partial pressures, etc.) are of great importance. The kinetics of thermally stimulated processes is generally measured by thermal analysis techniques such as calorimetry (DSC, for example) and thermogravimetric analysis.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to present a collection of papers that reflect recent developments in the field of multi-scale modeling of chemical processes and highlight the essential role of thermal analysis in understanding the behavior of various chemical processes.

Prof. Dr. Loïc Favergeon
Prof. Dr. Nobuyoshi Koga
Prof. Dr. Luis A. Perez-Maqueda
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)
  • thermogravimetric analysis (TGA)
  • process simulation
  • reaction kinetics
  • scaling

Published Papers

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