About the Book
The Number One Guide to Chemical Engineering Principles, Techniques, Calculations, and Applications: Now Even More Current, Efficient, and Practical
Basic Principles and Calculations in Chemical Engineering, Eighth Edition goes far beyond traditional introductory chemical engineering topics, presenting applications that reflect the full scope of contemporary chemical, petroleum, and environmental engineering. Celebrating its fiftieth Anniversary as the field’s leading practical introduction, it has been extensively updated and reorganized to cover today’s principles and calculations more efficiently, and to present far more coverage of bioengineering, nanoengineering, and green engineering.
Offering a strong foundation of skills and knowledge for successful study and practice, it guides students through formulating and solving material and energy balance problems, as well as describing gases, liquids, and vapors. Throughout, the authors introduce efficient, consistent, student-friendly methods for solving problems, analyzing data, and gaining a conceptual, application-based understanding of modern chemical engineering processes. This edition’s improvements include many new problems, examples, and homework assignments.
Coverage includes
Modular chapters designed to support introductory chemical engineering courses of any length
Thorough introductions to unit conversions, basis selection, and process measurements
Consistent, sound strategies for solving material and energy balance problems
Clear introductions to key concepts ranging from stoichiometry to enthalpy
Behavior of gases, liquids, and solids: ideal/real gases, single component two-phase systems, gas-liquid systems, and more
Self-assessment questions to help readers identify areas they don’t fully understand
Thought/discussion and homework problems in every chapter
New biotech and bioengineering problems throughout
New examples and homework on nanotechnology, environmental engineering, and green engineering
Extensive tables, charts, and glossaries in each chapte
Many new student projects
Reference appendices presenting atomic weights and numbers, Pitzer Z factors, heats of formation and combustion, and more
Practical, readable, and exceptionally easy to use, Basic Principles and Calculations in Chemical Engineering, Eighth Edition,is the definitive chemical engineering introduction for students, license candidates, practicing engineers, and scientists.
This is the digital version of the print title. Access to the CD content that accompanies the print title is available through product registration. See the instructions in back pages of your digital edition.
CD-ROM INCLUDES
The latest Polymath trial software for solving linear, nonlinear, and differential equations and regression problems
Point-and-click physical property database containing 700+ compounds
Supplemental Problems Workbook containing 100+ solved problems
Descriptions and animations of modern process equipment
Chapters on degrees of freedom, process simulation, and unsteady-state material balances
Expert advice for beginners on problem-solving in chemical engineering
Table of Contents:
PART I: INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1: What are Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering?
Chapter 2: Introductory Concepts
Part II: Material Balances
Chapter 3: Material Balances
Chapter 4: Material Balances without Reaction
Chapter 5: Material Balances Involving Reactions
Chapter 6: Material Balances for Multi-Unit Systems
Part III: Gases, Vapors, and Liquids
Chapter 7: Ideal and Real Gases
Chapter 8: Multiphase Equilibrium
Part IV: Energy
Chapter 9: Energy Balances
Chapter 10: Energy Balances: How to Account for Chemical Reaction
CHAPTER 11: Humidity (Psychrometric) Charts and Their Use
Part V: Supplementary Material
Chapter 12: Analysis Of The Degrees Of Freedom in a Steady-State Process
Chapter 13: Heats of Solution and Mixing
Chapter 14: The Mechanical Energy Balance
Chapter 15: Liquids and Gases in Equilibrium with Solids
Chapter 16: Solving Material and Energy Balances UsingProcess Simulators (Flowsheeting Codes)
Chapter 17: Unsteady-State Material And Energy Balances
Appendixes
Index
About the Author :
David M. Himmelblau was (until his death in April) the American Petrofina Foundation Centennial Professor in Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin. The author of sixteen books, his areas of research included the use of artificial neural networks for fault diagnosis and data rectification. James B. Riggs is Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at Texas Tech University, where he directs the Texas Tech Process Control and Optimization Consortium. His books include Chemical Process Control, Second Edition and An Introduction to Numerical Methods for Chemical Engineers, Second Edition.
