| Preface to the English Edition | |
| Preface to the French Edition | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Energy, Processes, Environment | |
| Raw Material and Energy | p. 9 |
| Energy Production | p. 12 |
| Chemical Industries | p. 13 |
| Chemical Safety | p. 15 |
| Atmospheric Pollution | p. 18 |
| Conclusion: the concept of ecodevelopment | p. 32 |
| Fuels, Engines, Burners, Industrial Reactors | |
| Engine and Heating Fuels | p. 35 |
| Thermal Engines | p. 47 |
| Burners | p. 56 |
| Industrial Chemical Reactors | p. 58 |
| Macroscopic Description of a Reacting Gas Mixture | |
| The State of a Mixture of Gases | p. 65 |
| Conversion, Selectivity, Yield | p. 68 |
| Stoichiometric Analysis | p. 73 |
| Reaction Schemes | p. 78 |
| Thermodynamic Laws | |
| Thermodynamic Properties of Chemical Species | p. 91 |
| Thermodynamic Properties of Reactions | p. 98 |
| Equilibria Laws | p. 99 |
| Calculation of Equilibria | p. 104 |
| Estimation of Thermodynamic Data | |
| Benson's Method | p. 111 |
| Statistical Mechanics | p. 117 |
| Thermodynamic Data for Free Radicals | p. 126 |
| Extrapolation to High Temperature | p. 132 |
| Chetah Safety Criteria | p. 134 |
| Elementary Reactions | |
| Generic Elementary Reactions | p. 139 |
| Kinetic Laws | p. 143 |
| Estimation of Kinetic Parameters | |
| Collision Theory | p. 153 |
| Benson's Method | p. 155 |
| Structure-Reactivity Correlations | p. 159 |
| Kinetic Morphology | |
| Quasi-Stationary-State Approximation | p. 163 |
| Molecular Reactions | p. 166 |
| Non-Chain Reactions | p. 168 |
| Straight Chain Reactions | p. 171 |
| Branched Chain Reactions | p. 182 |
| Chain Reactions with Degenerate Branching | p. 188 |
| Thermal Explosions | p. 196 |
| Generation of Reaction Mechanisms | |
| General Description of the Exgas System | p. 203 |
| The C0-C1-C2 Basic Set of Reactions | p. 205 |
| The Generation of Detailed Primary Mechanisms | p. 207 |
| The Generation of Secondary Mechanisms | p. 210 |
| Lumping of the Detailed Primary Mechanisms | p. 215 |
| Molecular Transport Laws | |
| Molecular Transport Phenomena | p. 225 |
| Molecular Transport of Matter | p. 226 |
| Molecular Transport of Heat | p. 228 |
| Molecular Transport of Momentum | p. 230 |
| Analogies Between the Phenomena of Molecular Transport | p. 231 |
| Estimation of Molecular Transport Data | |
| Diffusion Coefficient | p. 235 |
| Viscosity | p. 238 |
| Thermal Conductivity | p. 239 |
| Lennard-Jones Parameters | p. 242 |
| Limits of Validity | p. 244 |
| Laboratory Reactors | |
| General Characteristics | p. 245 |
| Batch Reactor | p. 247 |
| Stirred Flow Reactor | p. 254 |
| Plug-Flow Reactor | p. 260 |
| Rapid Compression Machine | p. 265 |
| Flat-Flame Burner | p. 268 |
| Shock Tube | p. 271 |
| Analysis and Reduction of Reaction Mechanisms | |
| Analysis of Reaction Mechanisms | p. 285 |
| Reduction of Reaction Mechanisms | p. 291 |
| Tables of Thermodynamic and Kinetic Data and of Molecular Parameters | |
| Thermodynamic Tables | p. 299 |
| Kinetic Tables | p. 307 |
| Tables of Molecular Parameters | p. 311 |
| Computer Programs and Databases | p. 313 |
| URLs | p. 321 |
| Symbols, Fundamental Constants, Units | p. 323 |
| Linear Chemical Notation | p. 326 |
| Index | p. 329 |
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