Separation Process Engineering, Third Edition, is the most comprehensive, accessible text available on modern separation processes and the fundamentals of mass transfer. Phillip C. Wankat teaches each key concept through detailed, realistic examples using real data–including up-to-date simulation practice and new spreadsheet-based exercises.
New to This Edition
- Detailed coverage of mass transfer fundamentals and applications in separation processes.
- Detailed design procedures and problems are now included for liquid-liquid extraction. These design methods are not in the 2nd edition and are not in competing books; these design methods plus the simulation exercises for extraction make the coverage of extraction the most detailed of any of the textbooks on the market.
- Detailed spreadsheet examples and VBA programs, now included in appendices.
- All new sets of problems.
Key Features
- In addition to up-to-date material, this book uses what is known about how students learn. The result is a book that students find easy to read and understand.
- Detailed examples that use real data to solve real engineering problems, organized in a common format for ease of understanding.
- This edition features a large number of new problems that use real data to solve real engineering separation and mass transfer problems.
- Extensive coverage and examples of industrially important separation methods, including: flash distillation; continuous column distillation including extractive and azeotropic distillation; batch distillation; absorption; stripping; extraction; membrane separations; adsorption; ion exchange; and chromatography.
- Simulation exercises for process simulators and exercises for spreadsheets presented in chapter appendices so that they do not cause confusion in courses that do not use these techniques.
- New detailed coverage of mass transfer fundamentals and applications in separation processes.
Contents
- Chapter 1: Introduction to Separation Process Engineering
- Chapter 2: Flash Distillation
- Chapter 3: Introduction to Column Distillation
- Chapter 4: Column Distillation: Internal Stage-by-Stage Balances
- Chapter 5: Introduction to Multicomponent Distillation
- Chapter 6: Exact Calculation Procedures for Multicomponent Distillation
- Chapter 7: Approximate Shortcut Methods for Multicomponent Distillation
- Chapter 8: Introduction to Complex Distillation Methods
- Chapter 9: Batch Distillation
- Chapter 10: Staged and Packed Column Design
- Chapter 11: Economics and Energy Conservation in Distillation
- Chapter 12: Absorption and Stripping
- Chapter 13: Liquid-Liquid Extraction
- Chapter 14: Washing, Leaching, and Supercritical Extraction
- Chapter 15: Introduction to Diffusion and Mass Transfer
- Chapter 16: Mass Transfer Analysis for Distillation, Absorption, Stripping, and Extraction
- Chapter 17: Introduction to Membrane Separation Processes
- Chapter 18: Introduction to Adsorption, Chromatography, and Ion Exchange
- Appendix A: Aspen Plus Troubleshooting Guide for Separations
- Appendix B: Instructions for Fitting VLE and LLE Data with Aspen Plus
- Appendix C: Unit Conversions and Physical Constants
- Appendix D: Data Locations
- Answers to Selected Problems
- Index
About the Authors
- Phillip C. Wankat is Clifton L. Lovell Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and director of undergraduate degree programs at Purdue University’s School of Engineering Education. His current research interests include adsorption, large-scale chromatography, simulated moving bed systems, and distillation, as well as improvements in engineering education. He received the 2007 Distinguished Education Alumni Award of Distinction from Purdue’s College of Education, and the 2005 Shreve Prize in Chemical Engineering. With K. S. Knaebel, he contributed the Mass Transfer section to Perry’s Handbook of Chemical Engineering, Eighth Edition (McGraw-Hill, 2008).
Book Details
- Hardcover: 992 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 3 edition (©2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0131382276
- ISBN-13: 978-0131382275
- Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 1.5 x 9.4 inches
- List Price: $150.00