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Introducing the principles and practices of design and analysis in chemical engineering, this textbook teaches students to apply three vital analytical skills - mathematical modelling, graphical modelling, and dynamic scaling - in the contexts of modern chemical processes such as the hydrogen economy, petrochemical processes, and pharmaceuticals.

Chemical separations are of central importance in many areas of environmental science, whether it is the clean up of polluted water or soil, the treatment of discharge streams from chemical processes, or modification of a specific process to decrease its environmental impact. This book is an introduction to chemical separations, focusing on their use in environmental applications. The authors first discuss the general aspects of separation technology as a unit operation. They also describe how property differences are used to generate separations, the use of separating agents, and the selection criteria for particular separation techniques. The general approach for each technology is to present the chemical and/or physical basis for the process and explain how to evaluate it for design and analysis. The book contains many worked examples and homework problems. It is an ideal textbook for undergraduate and graduate students taking courses on environmental separations or environmental engineering.

This text allows instructors to teach a course on heat and mass transfer that will equip students with the pragmatic, applied skills required by the chemical industry. This combined presentation of heat and mass transfer allows students to develop a practical understanding, while maintaining mathematical rigour, without extensive mathematical analysis.

Thorough treatment of the design, preparation, and utilization of catalytic systems for optimal performance.

This authoritative book addresses the fundamental principles of gas-solid flows and their application to various gas-solid flow systems.

This text on transport phenomena is arranged in three parallel parts covering the major topics of momentum, energy, and mass transfer. Each part begins with the theory and is followed by applications. Includes numerous real-world examples and exercises. Intended for first-year graduate engineering students, the book will be equally useful as a reference for researchers.

Process Control, first published in 2002, covers the most essential aspects of process control for a two-semester introductory course. Theory and analysis of process control are well-presented, and MATLAB is employed as a powerful yet approachable computational tool. Each chapter concludes with problem sets, and a custom web site provides MATLAB support.

This book presents the current state of the art in computational models for turbulent reacting flows, and analyzes carefully the strengths and weaknesses of the various techniques described. The focus is on formulation of practical models as opposed to numerical issues arising from their solution.

This book is the first to provide a thorough treatment of parametric sensitivity and sensitivity analysis. The emphasis is on applications to real situations. The book covers definitions of various sensitivity indices, numerical techniques used for their evaluation, and sensitivity analysis in a variety of chemical reactors and in combustion systems, air pollution, and metabolic processes.

The flow of granular materials such as sand, snow, coal, and catalyst particles is common occurrence in natural and industrial settings. The mechanics of these materials is not well understood. They are important since a large fraction of the materials handled and processed in the chemical, metallurgical, pharmaceutical, and food processing industries are granular in nature. This book describes the theories for granular flow based mainly on continuum models although alternative discrete models are also discussed briefly. The level is appropriate for advanced undergraduates or beginning graduate students. The goal is to inform the reader about observed phenomena, some available models, and their shortcomings and to visit some issues that remain unresolved. There is a selection of problems at the end of the chapters to encourage exploration, and extensive references are provided.

Most of the shaping in the manufacture of polymeric objects is carried out in the melt state, as it is a substantial part of the physical property development. Melt processing involves an interplay between fluid mechanics and heat transfer in rheologically complex liquids, and taken as a whole it is a nice example of the importance of coupled transport processes. This book is on the underlying foundations of polymer melt processing, which can be derived from relatively straightforward ideas in fluid mechanics and heat transfer; the level is that of an advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate course, and the material can serve as the text for a course in polymer processing or for a second course in transport processes.

Originally published in 2004, Distillation Theory and Its Application to Optimal Design of Separation Units presents a clear, multidimensional geometric representation of distillation theory that is valid for all distillation column types, splits, and mixtures. This representation answers such fundamental questions as: what are the feasible separation products for a given mixture? What minimum power is required to separate a given mixture? What minimum number of trays is necessary to separate a given mixture at a fixed power input? This book is intended for students and specialists in the design and operation of separation units in the chemical, pharmaceutical, food, wood, petrochemical, oil-refining, and natural gas industries and for software designers.