Kinetics of Heterogeneous Solid State Processes

Kinetic studies have traditionally being extremely useful in characterizing several physical and chemical phenomena in organic, inorganic and metallic systems. It provides valuable qualitative, quantitative and kinetic information on phase transformations, solid state precipitation, crystallization, oxidation and decomposition. Unfortunately, no single reference comprehensively presents nonisothermal kinetic analysis method for the study of complex processes, determining the actual mechanism and kinetic parameters. This book provides a new method for nonisothermal kinetics and its application in heterogeneous solid state processes. In the backdrop of limitations in existing methods, the book presents a brief review of the widely used isothermal and nonisothermal kinetic analysis methods.

Pritam Deb is currently Associate Professor at Tezpur University (Central University), India and also holds concurrent position of Max Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Eisenforschung, Germany. He received his PhD from Jadavpur University. Dr. Deb is recipient of several national and international accolades which include DAE Young Scientist Research award, ISCA Young Scientist award, MRSI Young Scientist award, BHUMET Golden Jubilee fellowship. Dr. Deb has published over 40 peer-refereed research papers and delivered over 25 invited talks at various conferences during the last 5 years. In addition, three patents and two software copyrights are also credited to him. He has published one book with McGraw Hill and edited one special volume of Indian Journal of Physics.