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Summary
Summary
'Chemical engineering is the field of applied science that employs physical, chemical, and biological rate processes for the betterment of humanity'. This opening sentence of Chapter 1 has been the underlying paradigm of chemical engineering. Chemical Engineering: An Introduction is designed to enable the student to explore the activities in which a modern chemical engineer is involved by focusing on mass and energy balances in liquid-phase processes. Problems explored include the design of a feedback level controller, membrane separation, hemodialysis, optimal design of a process with chemical reaction and separation, washout in a bioreactor, kinetic and mass transfer limits in a two-phase reactor, and the use of the membrane reactor to overcome equilibrium limits on conversion. Mathematics is employed as a language at the most elementary level. Professor Morton M. Denn incorporates design meaningfully; the design and analysis problems are realistic in format and scope.
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Denn (City College of NY, CUNY) states that "the intent of this text is to provide a fundamental understanding of the elements of chemical engineering and to provide a flavor of the challenges that a chemical engineer might face." The focus is on mass and energy balances in liquid phase systems, with most space devoted to reacting systems of various kinds. The author also emphasizes mass transfer and separations processes and provides one chapter on heat exchange. The examples are typical of problems that are normally included in the fundamental components of the usual required courses, such as material and energy balances, heat transfer, mass transfer and separations processes, and kinetics and reactor design (although problems illustrating applications of fluid mechanics are conspicuously absent). The mathematical level is that of a first-year calculus course, and many of the examples involve solutions to linear ordinary differential equations. The examples are intended to illustrate what is expected of the student as a chemical engineering graduate, and in the courses that follow in the core curriculum. Although proposed as an introductory text, the book seems a bit advanced for students who have had no prior exposure to the chemical process industries. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates. R. Darby emeritus, Texas A&M University
Table of Contents
| Preface |
| 1 Introduction |
| 2 Basic concepts of analysis |
| 3 The balance equation |
| 4 Component mass balances |
| 5 Membrane separation |
| 6 Reacting systems |
| 7 Designing reactors |
| 8 Bioreactors and nonlinear systems |
| 9 Overcoming equilibrium |
| 10 Two-phase systems and interfacial mass transfer |
| 11 Equilibrium staged processes |
| 12 Energy balances |
| 13 Heat exchange |
| 14 Energy balances for multi-component systems |
| 15 Energy balances for reacting systems |
