Classical and Molecular Thermodynamics of Fluid Systems: Principles and Applications

About Claudio Olivera-FuentesCostas PanayiotouGrazyna Wilczek-VeraJuan H. Vera

Juan H. Vera is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemical Engineering McGill University Montreal Canada. He earned a doctorate (Ing. Quim.) at the Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria Chile and a Master of Science in chemical engineering at the University of California Berkley. He coauthored the first edition of this book a manual on copper metallurgy (in Spanish) a module in Elsevier Encyclopedia coedited the book Ionic Surfactants and Aqueous Solutions: Biomolecules Metals and Nanoparticles (2018) and authored more than 200 refereed publications in international journals. He has an international patent on the extraction of proteins and a Canadian patent on the extraction of heavy metals.Grazyna Wilczek-Vera is a chemist who has taught and conducted research in various areas of thermodynamics at several universities. During her more than 30year academic career she served as a Faculty Lecturer and the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Chemistry and as a Research Associate in the Department of Chemical Engineering at McGill University Montreal Canada and as an Adjunct in the Department of Chemistry University of Warsaw Poland. She received the 2008 Principals Prize for Excellence in Teaching at McGill University. She earned a PhD in chemical sciences (with distinction) and a Master of Science in chemistry (with distinction) at the University of Warsaw. She has authored 60 refereed publications in journals given 38 conference presentations and coauthored three books.Claudio Olivera-Fuentes is a Professor Emeritus in the Thermodynamics and Transport Phenomena Department and Coordinator of Applied Sciences and Engineering in the Deans Office of Research and Development at Universidad Simón Bolívar Caracas Venezuela. He earned a chemical engineering degree at the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María Chile and an MSc in chemical engineering at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology UK. He has been an Invited Researcher at the University of Concepción Chile and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. He has authored over 120 publications in conference proceedings and scientific journals three book chapters and one textbook on vector and tensor analysis applied to transport phenomena. Among other recognitions he received the 2003 Procter & Gamble of Venezuela Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 2016 Simón Rodríguez Award for Lifetime Academic Achievement.Costas Panayiotou is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemical Engineering Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece. He earned a PhD at McGill University Montreal Canada. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Texas Austin and at Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne Switzerland and he was an Otto Monsted Professor at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). He has published more than 250 peerreviewed articles in international journals ten book chapters and two textbooks and he has served on the editorial boards of ACS and Elsevier journals.