This reference provides a complete, practical, and student-friendly introduction to the principles and techniques of modern chemical, petroleum, and environmental engineering. The authors introduce efficient and consistent methods for solving problems, analyzing data, and conceptually understanding a wide variety of processes. This edition has been revised to reflect growing interest in the life sciences, adding biotechnology and bioengineering problems and examples throughout. It also adds many new examples and homework assignments on nanotechnology, environmental, and green engineering, plus many updates to existing examples. A new chapter presents multiple student projects, and several chapters from the previous edition have been condensed for greater focus.
Key Features
- Thoroughly covers material balances, gases, liquids, and energy balances.
- Contains new biotech and bioengineering problems throughout.
- Adds new examples and homework on nanotechnology, environmental engineering, and green engineering.
- All-new student projects chapter.
- Self-assessment tests, discussion problems, homework, and glossaries in each chapter.
New To This Edition
- This edition has been revised to reflect growing interest in the life sciences, adding biotechnology and bioengineering problems and examples throughout.
- It also adds many new examples and homework assignments on nanotechnology, environmental, and green engineering, plus many updates to existing examples.
- A new chapter presents multiple student projects, and several chapters from the previous edition have been condensed for greater focus.
Contents
Part I: Introduction
- Chapter 1: What is Chemical Engineering?
- Chapter 2: Introductory Concepts
Part II: Material Balances
- Chapter 3: Material Balances
- Chapter 4: Material Balances Without Reaction
- Chapter 5: Material Balances Involving Reaction
- Chapter 6: Material Balances for Multiple Unit Systems
Part III: Gases and Liquids
- Chapter 7: Ideal and Real Gases
- Chapter 8: Multi-Phase Equilibrium
Part IV: Energy Balances
- Chapter 9: Energy Balances
- Chapter 10: Energy Balances: How to Account for Chemical Reactions
- Chapter 11: Humidity (Psychrometric) Charts and Their Use
Part V: Supplementary Material (On the Accompanying CD)
- Chapter 12: Analysis of the Degrees of Freedom in a Steady-State Process
- Chapter 13: Liquids and Gases in Equilibrium with Solids
- Chapter 14: The Mechanical Energy Balance
- Chapter 15: Solving Material and Energy Balances Using Process Simulators
- Chapter 16: Unsteady-State Material and Energy Balances
Various Physical Property Appendixes
- Appendix F: Physical Properties of Various Organic and Inorganic Substances
- Appendix G: Heat Capacity Equations (Appendix E in 7e)
- Appendix H: Vapor Pressures
- Appendix I: Heats of Solution and Dilution
- Appendix J: Enthalpy-Concentration Data
- Appendix K: Thermodynamic Charts
- Appendix L: Physical Properties of Petroleum Fraction
- Appendix M: Solution of Sets of Equations
- Appendix N: Fitting Functions to Data
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.
Product Details
- Hardcover: 768 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 8 edition (March 24, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0132346605
- ISBN-13: 978-0132346603
List Price: $144.00