Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics is the clearest and most well-organized introduction to thermodynamics theory and calculations for all chemical engineering undergraduates. This brand-new text makes thermodynamics far easier to teach and learn. Drawing on his award-winning courses at Penn State, Dr. Themis Matsoukas organizes the text for more effective learning, focuses on "why" as well as "how," offers imagery that helps students conceptualize the equations, and illuminates thermodynamics with relevant examples from within and beyond the chemical engineering discipline. Matsoukas presents solved problems in every chapter, ranging from basic calculations to realistic safety and environmental applications.
Key Features
- Ease of use: designed from the ground up by an award-winning professor to make thermodynamics easier to teach and learn.
- Flexibility: while many problems require mathematical software, instructors can use any software package they prefer.
- Course-tested: draws on the author's experience teaching more than 1000 thermodynamics students at Penn State.
- Rich with examples: offers imagery that helps students conceptualize the equations, and illuminates the topics with relevant examples from within and beyond the chemical engineering discipline.
Contents
Part I: Pure Fluids
- Chapter 1: Scope and Language of Thermodynamics
- Chapter 2: Phase Diagrams of Pure Fluids
- Chapter 3: Energy and the First Law
- Chapter 4: Entropy and the Second Law
- Chapter 5: Calculation of Properties
- Chapter 6: Balances in Open Systems
- Chapter 7: VLE of Pure Fluid
Part II: Mixtures
- Chapter 8: Phase Behavior of Mixtures
- Chapter 9: Properties of Mixtures
- Chapter 10: Theory of Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium
- Chapter 11: Ideal Solution
- Chapter 12: Nonideal Solutions
- Chapter 13: Miscibility, Solubility, and Other Phase Equilibria
- Chapter 14: Reactions
- Bibliography
Appendices
- Appendix A: Critical Properties of Selected Compounds
- Appendix B: Ideal-Gas Heat Capacities
- Appendix C: Standard Enthalpy and Gibbs Free Energy of Reaction
- Appendix D: UNIFAC Tables
- Appendix E: Steam Tables
- Index
About the Authors
- Themis Matsoukas has taught graduate and undergraduate thermodynamics, materials and energy balances, and various electives at Penn State–home to one of the world’s largest undergraduate programs in engineering–since 1991. He has taught thermodynamics more than twenty times, to more than a thousand undergraduate students. His honors at Penn State include the George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching (2009); the Outstanding Teaching Award, Penn State Engineering Society (2006); and the AXE: Outstanding Teacher Award (2005).
Book Details
- Hardcover: 720 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (©2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0132693062
- ISBN-13: 978-0132693066
- Product Dimensions: 1.1 x 8.3 x 10.2 inches
- List Price: $113.75