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Book SynopsisAbout our authors
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 optimization. He was president of the CACHE Corporation and director of the 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, Fifth Edition.
Table of ContentsPart 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
- 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
(Online Chapters)
- 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 APPENDIXES
- A Atomic Weights and Numbers
- B Tables of the Pitzer Z0 and Z1 Factors
- C Heats of Formation and Combustion
- D Answers to Selected Problems
(Online Appendixes)
- E Physical Properties of Various Organic and Inorganic Substances
- F Heat Capacity Equations
- G Vapor Pressures
- H Heats of Solution and Dilution
- I Enthalpy-Concentration Data
- J Thermodynamic Charts
- K Physical Properties of Petroleum Fractions
- L Solution of Sets of Equations
- M Fitting Functions to Data
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