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Provides a thorough understanding of chemical engineering and applied chemistry. Develops knowledge of the chemical engineering principles needed for both the solution of process problems and the optimization of processes. Explores how to break down language barriers between chemists and engineers. Presents a comprehensive approach to understanding the limitations and virtues of an engineering problem-solving approach.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface
• 1 Introduction to Chemical Engineering Principles
• Interface Between Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
• What's in This Book
• Mass Balances
• Energy Balances
• Heat Transfer in Industrial Chemical Processes
• Fluid Flow and Chemical Processing
• Mass Transfer in Separation, Purification, and Heterogeneous Systems
• Examples of Mass Transfer
• Chemical Engineering Kinetics, Process Control, and Engineering Economics
• Basic Steps for Scaling Up a Process Design
• The Principles of Fluid Flow, Heat Transfer, and Mass Transfer
• Chemical Engineering Principles Applied to New Technologies
• 2 Applied Thermodynamics
• Terms
• Temperature and Heat
• Definition of Work
• Conservation of Energy--The First Law of Thermodynamics
• The Second Law of Thermodynamics--The Limits of Efficiency
• Gibbs Free Energy, Chemical Potential, Fugacity, and Activity
• Applied Phase Equilibrium and the Distribution Coefficient
• Activity Coefficients
• 3 Fluid Flow
• Fluid Statics
• Buoyancy
• Fluid Dynamics--The Character of Flowing Fluids
• Flow and the First Law of Thermodynamics--Bernoulli's Equation
• Friction Losses in Fluid Flow
• Types of Pumps and Their Uses
• Flow Around Submerged Objects--Calculating a Drag Force
• Non-Newtonian Fluid Flow
• Mixing Fluids
• Flow Through Packed Beds, Porosity, and Sphericity
• 4 Heat Transfer
• Conduction
• Convection--Heat Transfer with Motion
• Radiation--Heat Transfer through a Vacuum
• Steady-State Heat Conduction--q Steady with Time
• Steady-State Heat Conduction with a Heat Source--Heated Wires, Chemical Reactors, and Phase Changes
• Unsteady-State Heat Conduction
• Convective Heat Transfer--Forced and Free
• Dimensionless Number for Comparing Conduction and Convection--The Nusselt Number
• The Overall Heat Transfer Coefficient, U-Combining Conductive and Convective Heat Transfer Effects
• Heat Transfer with Flow around Objects
• Radiative Heat Transfer
• How an Object's Shape Affects Radiation
• An Introduction to Heat Exchangers
• 5 Mass Transfer
• Steady-State Molecular Diffusion
• Unsteady-State Molecular Diffusion--Time Dependence
• Mass Transfer at a Phase Boundary
• Mass Transfer for Different Geometries
• Equilibrium Stage Operations, the Ideal Stage, and Phase Equilibria
• Mechanical Separation Processes
• 6 Applied Reaction Kinetics and Reactor Design
• A Review of Chemical Kinetics and Chemical Equilibrium
• Chemical Reaction Kinetics Categories
• Chemical Reactor Design
• 7 Process Control and Data Acquisition
• Control Applications and Types of Systems
• Types of Control
• Basics of Control Systems
• Process Control Equipment
• Process Dynamics--Determining Control Response Mathematically
• Process Dynamics Design Methods
• Additional and Advanced Control Methods
• Data Acquisition by Computer
• 8 Engineering Economics and Process Design
• Time Value of Money
• Depreciation and Salvage Value: Depreciation Methods and Sinking Funds
• Economic Alternatives
• Guidelines for Comparing Investment Alternatives
• Cost Indexes--Estimating Process Costs from Existing Operations
• Equipment Cost--Capacity and Scaling Factors, Six-Tenths Rule
• Capital Investment Estimating Techniques
• Pricing Chemical Products
• Proce

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CHOICE Review

As it title implies, this book is written to give chemists an understanding of the basic elements of chemical engineering. It is an outgrowth of the author's three-day course for more than 4,000 professional chemists. Traditional concepts of chemical processes and equipment, thermodynamics, fluid flow, heat transfer, mass transfer, reaction kinetics and reactor design, process control, and engineering economics and design are covered in eight chapters. The author assumes that the reader is familiar with basic chemistry, stoichiometry, etc. The treatment is fundamental and classical, with solved example problems of an introductory nature included in most chapters. The mathematical level is primarily algebra, with some calculus required. There are few derivations, and most of the material is presented in terms of "working relations." The latest developments and most modern aspects of chemical engineering have not been addressed, and much of the material is taken from references 40 years or more old; however, much of this material is timeless due to its basic nature. The book is well written, with clear illustrations and diagrams, and the author has had more than 40 years of extensive experience in many universities. Recommended not only for chemists but for others who need a practical, working introduction to chemical engineering. Lower-division undergraduates; professionals; two-year technical program students. R. Darby Texas A&M University