Electrostatics       by Dr. Niels Jonassen

Published November 1997 by Chapman & Hall 115 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003  - for ordering please contact Customer Service at 1-800-842-3636 (FAX: 606-525-7778)

512 Pages; Price $97.50

 

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The book is divided into the following Chapters:

1.  Introduction

2.  Fundamental Concepts

3.  Static Electrification

4.  Static Electric Effects

5.  Abatement of Static Electricity

6.  Static Electric Measurements

7.  Static Electricity and People

8.  Applications of Static Electricity

Appendices:

A.  Twelve Critical Factors

B.  Implementing an ESD Control Program: The Basic Steps

C.  An Economic Analysis

 

Jonassen has accomplished in this book the complicated feat of descibing electrostatics in such as way that it may be understood by the novice and the engineer.  Electrostatics  is 194 power packed pages of knowledge. This book is a mathematical/physical treatment of the subject of electrostatics.  It would be well suited for a text book for university level courses on electrostatics engineering.

Niels discusses the basics of electrostatics in a technical manner with very understandable examples such as explosions in the chemical and related industries.   Jonassen expertly explores the hazards and solutions to this problematic subject.

The detailed discussions of ESD Control Programs is a must read for any ESD Coordinator.  Jonassen further discusses the  "12 Critical Factors" first set forth by Ted Danglemayer in his book ESD Program Management.  

The ESD Journal editorial staff highly recommends Electrostatics by Niels Jonassen!

About the Author:

Dr. Niels Jonassen received his M.S. Degree from the University of Copenhagen in 1954 majoring in physics, and minoring in mathematics, chemistry and astronomy.  In 1962 he received the Dr. Techn. (D.Sc.) degree from the Technical University of Denmark and in the same year the Danish Esso Prize for his work on industrial static electricity.

He has worked several periods in the United States (mostly New Mexico) on atmospheric electric and radioactive problems.  He was a member of the OECD group of Radon and Radon Daughters.  He has twice been a UN specialist for the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) to the Philippines, advising on radon projects.

Dr. Jonassen is a member of the ESD Association (and has served on its technical committee since 1985) and the Electrostatic Society of America.  For 20 years he has been teaching a three-week full course on static electricity at the Technical University of Denmark and has been conducting about 70 extended courses on static electricity, ions, and indoor climate.

He received the ESD Association Outstanding Contribution Award in 1989.  He has recently officially retired from the Technical University but is still running his office and laboratory.

 

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