Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering

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Edition: 6th
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-09-22
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
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Summary

* The most comprehensive of all current chemical engineering texts on unit operations; covers fluid mechanics, heat transfer, mass transfer, and solids handling * Contains a balanced treatment of theory and engineering practice, with many practical illustrative examples included * Includes a mass transfer section containing chapters on absorption and membrane operations--topics not often covered in unit operations textbooks

Table of Contents

I Introduction

1 Definitions and Principles

II Fluid Mechanics

2 Fluid Statics and Its Applications

3 Fluid Flow Phenomena

4 Basic Equations of Fluid Flow

5 Incompressible Flow in Pipes and Channels

6 Flow of Compressible Fluids

7 Flow Past Immersed Bodies

8 Transportantion and Metering of Fluids

9 Agitation and Mixing of Liquids

III Heat Transfer and Its Applications

10 Heat Transfer by Conduction

11 Principles of Heat Flow in Fluids

12 Heat Transfer to Fluids Without Phase Change

13 Heat Transfer to Fluids With Phase Change

14 Radiation Heat Transfer

15 Heat-Exchange Equipment

16 Evaporation

IV Mass Transfer and Its Applications

17 Principles of Diffusion and Mass Transfer Between Phases Theory of Diffusion

18 Gas Absorption

19 Humidification Operations

20 Equilibrium-Stage Operations

21 Distillation

22 Introduction to Multicomponent Distillation

23 Leaching and Extraction

24 Drying of Solids

25 Fixed-Bed Seperations

26 Membrane Seperation Processes

27 Crystallization

V Operations Involving Particulate Solids

28 Properties and Handling of Particulate Solids

29 Mechanical Separations

Appendixes

Appendix 1 Conversion Factors and Constants ofNature

Appendix 2 Dimensionless Groups

Appendix 3 Dimensions, Capacities,and Weights of Standard Steel Pipe

Appendix 4 Condenser and Heat-Exchanger Tube Data

Appendix 5 Tyler Standard Screen Scale

Appendix 6 Properties of Liquid Water

Appendix 7 Properties of Saturated Steam and Water

Appendix 8 Viscosities of Gases

Appendix 9 Viscosities of Liquids

Appendix 10 Thermal Conductivities of Metals

Appendix 11 Thermal Conductivities of Various Solids and Insulating Materials

Appendix 12 Thermal Conductivities of Gases and Vapors

Appendix 13 Thermal Conductivities of Liquids Other Than Water

Appendix 14 Specific Heats of Gases

Appendix 15 Specific Heats of Liquids

Appendix 16 Prandtl Numbers for Gases at 1 atm and 100 C

Appendix 17 Prandtl Numbers for Liquids

Appendix 18 Diffusivities and Schmidt Numbers for Gases in Air at 0 C and 1 atm

Appendix 19 Collision Integral and Lennard-Jones Force Constants

Appendix 20 Viscosities of Liquids Index

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