Basic principles and calculations in chemical engineering

✍ Scribed by David Mautner Himmelblau

• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 244
• Series: Prentice-Hall international series in the physical and chemical engineering sciences
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

''Over the past decade the field of chemical engineering has broadened significantly, encompassing a wide range of subjects. However, the basic underlying principles have remained the same. To help readers keep pace, this volume continues to offer a comprehensive introduction to the principles and techniques used in the field of chemical, petroleum, and environmental engineering.'' ''As in previous editions, author David M. Himmelblau strives to help readers learn to develop systematic problem-solving skills, understand what material balance are, comprehend energy balances, and cope with the complexity of big problems. In addition, readers are exposed to background information on units and measurements of physical properties, basic laws about the behavior of gas, liquids, and solids, and basic mathematical tools.''--BOOK JACKET. Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: 1. Introduction to Chemical Engineering Calculations --
2. Problem Solving --
3. Material Balances --
4. Gases, Vapors, Liquids, and Solids --
5. Energy Balances --
6. Solving Simultaneous Material and Energy Balances --
7. Unsteady-State Material and Energy Balances --
App. A Answers to Self-Assessment Tests --
App. B Atomic Weights and Numbers --
App. C Steam Tables --
App. D Physical Properties of Various Organic and Inorganic Substances --
App. E Heat Capacity Equations --
App. F Heats of Formation and Combustion --
App. G Vapor Pressures --
App. H Heats of Solution and Dilution --
App. I Enthalpy-Concentration Data --
App. J Thermodynamic Charts --
App. K Physical Properties of Petroleum Fractions --
App. L Solutions of Sets of Equations --
App. M Fitting Functions to Data --
App. N Answers to Selected Problems.
Abstract: ''Over the past decade the field of chemical engineering has broadened significantly, encompassing a wide range of subjects. However, the basic underlying principles have remained the same. To help readers keep pace, this volume continues to offer a comprehensive introduction to the principles and techniques used in the field of chemical, petroleum, and environmental engineering.'' ''As in previous editions, author David M. Himmelblau strives to help readers learn to develop systematic problem-solving skills, understand what material balance are, comprehend energy balances, and cope with the complexity of big problems. In addition, readers are exposed to background information on units and measurements of physical properties, basic laws about the behavior of gas, liquids, and solids, and basic mathematical tools.''--BOOK JACKET