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It contains extensive new coverage and examples related to biotechnology, nanotechnology, green/environmental engineering, and process safety, as well as many new MATLAB and Python problems throughout.
Like previous editions, Basic Principles and Calculations in Chemical Engineering, 9th Edition, Global Edition offers a strong foundation of skills and knowledge for successful study and practice, guiding students through formulating and solving material and energy balance problems, as well as describing gases, liquids, and vapors. Throughout, it introduces efficient, consistent, student-friendly methods for solving problems, analysing data, and gaining a conceptual, application-based understanding of modern chemical engineering processes.
Table of Contents:
- Part I: Introduction
- Chapter 1: Introduction to Chemical Engineering
- Chapter 2 Introductory Concepts
- Part II Material Balances
- Chapter 3 Material Balances
- Chapter 4 Material Balances with Chemical Reaction
- Chapter 5 Material Balances for Multiunit Processes
- Part III Gases, Vapors, and Liquids C
- Chapter 6 Ideal and Real Gases
- Chapter 7 Multiphase Equilibrium
- Part IV Energy Balances
- Chapter 8 Energy Balances without Reaction
- Chapter 9 Energy Balances with Reaction
- Part V Combined Material and Energy Balances
- Chapter 10 Humidity
- Chapter 11 Unsteady-State Material and Energy Balances
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- Chapter 12 Heats of Solution and Mixing
- Chapter 13 Liquids and Gases in Equilibrium with Solids
- Chapter 14 Solving Material and Energy Balances
- Part VI Supplementary Materials
About the Author :
David M. Himmelblau was the Paul D. and Betty Robertson Meek and American Petrofina Foundation Centennial Professor Emeritus in Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas, where he taught for forty-two years. He authored eleven books and more than two hundred articles on process analysis, fault detection, and optimisation. He was president of the CACHE Corporation, and director of AIChE.
James B. Riggs was a university professor for thirty years. Twenty-five of those years were spent at Texas Tech University, where he founded and directed the Texas Tech Process Control and Optimization Consortium. He authored several popular textbooks, including Computational Methods for Chemical Engineers, Programming with MATLAB for Engineers, and Chemical and Bio-Process Control.
