Description
Book SynopsisThis broad-based book covers the three major areas of Chemical Engineering. Most of the books in the market involve one of the individual areas, namely, Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer or Mass Transfer, rather than all the three. This book presents this material in a single source. This avoids the user having to refer to a number of books to obtain information. Most published books covering all the three areas in a single source emphasize theory rather than practical issues. This book is written with emphasis on practice with brief theoretical concepts in the form of questions and answers, not adopting stereo-typed question-answer approach practiced in certain books in the market, bridging the two areas of theory and practice with respect to the core areas of chemical engineering. Most parts of the book are easily understandable by those who are not experts in the field.
Fluid Mechanics chapters include basics on non-Newtonian systems which, for instance find importance in p
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Table of Contents
FOREWORD.
PREFACE.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR.
LIST OF FIGURES.
LIST OF TABLES.
SECTION I FLUID MECHANICS.
1 Fluid Mechanics Basics.
2 Fluid Flow.
3 Piping, Seals, and Valves.
4 Flow Measurement.
5 Pumps, Ejectors, Blowers, and Compressors.
6 Mixing.
7 Two-Phase Flow Systems.
SECTION II HEAT TRANSFER.
8 Dimensionless Numbers, Temperature Measurement, and Conduction Heat Transfer.
9 Convective Heat Transfer Basics.
10 Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers.
11 Heat Transfer Equipment Involving Phase Transfer.
12 Refrigeration, Heat Pumps, Heat Tracing, Coiled and Jacketed Vessels, Steam Traps, and Immersion Heaters.
13 Compact Heat Exchangers, Regenerators, and Recuperators.
14 Radiant Heat Transfer and Fired Heaters.
SECTION III MASS TRANSFER.
15 Mass Transfer Basics.
16 Mass Transfer Equipment.
17 Absorption, Distillation, and Extraction.
18 Crystallization, Air–Water Operations, Drying, Adsorption, Membrane Separations, and Other Mass Transfer Processes.
INDEX.
