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This book deals with various unique elements in the drug development process within chemical engineering science and pharmaceutical R&D. The book is intended to be used as a professional reference and potentially as a text book reference in pharmaceutical engineering and pharmaceutical sciences. Many of the experimental methods related to pharmaceutical process development are learned on the job. This book is intended to provide many of those important concepts that R&D Engineers and manufacturing Engineers should know and be familiar if they are going to be successful in the Pharmaceutical Industry. These include basic analytics for quantitation of reaction components– often skipped in ChE Reaction Engineering and kinetics books. In addition Chemical Engineering in the Pharmaceutical Industry introduces contemporary methods of data analysis for kinetic modeling and extends these concepts into Quality by Design strategies for regulatory filings. For the current professionals, in-silico process modeling tools that streamline experimental screening approaches is also new and presented here. Continuous flow processing, although mainstream for ChE, is unique in this context given the range of scales and the complex economics associated with transforming existing batch-plant capacity.

The book will be split into four distinct yet related parts. These parts will address the fundamentals of analytical techniques for engineers, thermodynamic modeling, and finally provides an appendix with common engineering tools and examples of their applications.

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Thoroughly revised and updated in this second edition, The Engineering of Chemical Reactions focuses explicitly on developing the skills necessary to design a chemical reactor for any application, including chemical production, materials processing, and environmental modeling. This edition also features two new chapters on biological and environmental reaction engineering that provide an exciting introduction to these increasingly important areas of today's chemical engineering market. Streamlined to enhance the logical flow of the subject, The Engineering of Chemical Reactions, 2/e, is easy for instructors to navigate and students to follow. Using real reactions from chemical engineering, the first seven chapters cover such fundamentals as multiple reactions, energy management, and catalytic processes. The final five chapters explore more advanced topics including environmental, polymer, solids processing, biological, and combustion reactions. Practical, real-world examples throughout the text consider reactor and process choices in ways that encourage students to think creatively and build on previous knowledge. The Engineering of Chemical Reactions, 2/e, is ideal for upper-level undergraduate courses in chemical reactor engineering, chemical reactor design, and kinetics. ... Read more

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Practical, Real World Examples Beyond The A --> B Oversimplification
Among the reaction engineering texts, this one is the most practical with real-world examples found in the petroluem fuels, petrochemical, biochemical, environmental clean-up, explosions/combustions, and mass transfer applications. The author uses real chemical examples and not just "A goes to B" oversimplification. No reaction is "A goes to B" in the real world and the author knows that.

not so great
I used this book in my reactions engineering class.It was full of mistakes even though it was the 5th printing.The only reason the book was even useable was because Schmidt was a professor at the school I took the class at so he could clear up the mistakes in the book.The sections on CSTRs and PFRs was acceptable but still filled with mistakes and unclear problems at the end.So if you don't go to the University of Minnesota I would not recommand this book due to all the errors.

too much errata
Too many errors ! Move your attention to Fogler's

Presents concepts in concise, easy to understand writing
This book is an excellent introduction to reaction kinetics, ideal reactor models, and related areas covered in kinetics courses in Chemical Engineering.

Topic intro good, no real application to reactor analysis
The book introduces fundamental reactor analysis topics like material and energy balances for PFTR's and CSTR's. Problems at the end of each chapter focus on equations and concepts presented throught the chapter building onprevious concepts introduced in previous chapters. A few drawbacks are;numerous errors presented throughout sample and actual problems, attemptsto apply to real life reactor analysis fall short because assumptions madeto reduce mathematical detail are never realized in real world problems(although they allow for crude approximations), extensive reading leads toboredom. Used as supplement to solid lecturer, the book is valuable, wouldnot reccomend for reader trying to "self-teach" reactor analysis. ... Read more

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Taking greater advantage of powerful computing capabilities over the last several years, the development of fundamental information and new models has led to major advances in nearly every aspect of chemical engineering. Albright’s Chemical Engineering Handbook represents a reliable source of updated methods, applications, and fundamental concepts that will continue to play a significant role in driving new research and improving plant design and operations.

Well-rounded, concise, and practical by design, this handbook collects valuable insight from an exceptional diversity of leaders in their respective specialties. Each chapter provides a clear review of basic information, case examples, and references to additional, more in-depth information. They explain essential principles, calculations, and issues relating to topics including reaction engineering, process control and design, waste disposal, and electrochemical and biochemical engineering. The final chapters cover aspects of patents and intellectual property, practical communication, and ethical considerations that are most relevant to engineers.

From fundamentals to plant operations, Albright’s Chemical Engineering Handbook offers a thorough, yet succinct guide to day-to-day methods and calculations used in chemical engineering applications. This handbook will serve the needs of practicing professionals as well as students preparing to enter the field. ... Read more

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Excellent reference and practical use
From the moment that I recieved this is has generated value.It is concise to the critical equations and models.I have used it for drying, centrifugation and fluid flow.It also has a handy reference for more fundamental information relative to process design.Physical properties are more limited.Well worth the cost.Professor Albright has tapped into some really excellent experts in each of the areas covered by the handbook. ... Read more

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chemical eng'g solved problems
This book does not contain all Chemical engineering problems that are expexted to appear on the exam. ... Read more

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A detailed review of the subjects tested on the chemical engineering PE exam. All exam subjects are covered, and hundreds of figures, tables, and formulas reinforce the material reviewed in the text. More than 160 practice problems are included. Features a detailed subject index and a separate index of figures and tables. ... Read more

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This survey presents the theoretical methods of chemical engineering for modeling and simulation of industrial processes. On this base it is possible to formulate correct experimental conditions and to understand rightly the experimental results. The book uses the mechanics of continuous media approach for modeling of the simple processes as hydrodynamic processes, mass and heat transfer processes. The theory of the scalar, vector and tensor fields permit to create the basic equations and boundary conditions. The problems of rheology, turbulence, turbulent diffusion and turbulent mass transfer are examined too.

The book incorporates a lot of fundamental knowledge, but it is assumed that the readers are familiar with the mathematics at engineering level and that they thought some special topics in usual university courses. It includes examples at the end of all chapters using the author’s investigations. Therefore, it is highly valuable for scientists as well as graduate and PhD students.

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Principles of Chemical Reactor Analysis and Design presents a new fundamental approach and methodology that overcome the deficiencies of the current method of teaching chemical reactor design. It provides engineering students and practitioners with the tools needed to handle contemporary industrial reactor operations, new design capabilities, and the framework for new economic-based optimization.
Features include:

- Reactor operations are described by dimensionless variables (in most cases, between -1 and 1) and dimensionless design equations.
- The design is formulated in terms of the smallest number of design equations and the least number of terms in each equation; hence, the most robust formulation.
Solutions of the design equations provide dimensionless operating curves (a new concept in CRE). These curves provide complete information on the progress of the chemical reactions, the formation (or depletion) of all individual species, and changes in temperature. Reactor sizing represents a "point" on these curves (similar to the way a "point" on dimensionless friction factor versus Reynolds number charts is used).
- Discusses new design capabilities for reactor configurations. ... Read more

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Gain a better understanding of chemical processes.

This text will provide you with a realistic, informative introduction to chemical processes. This 3rd edition has been completely revised to provide you with increased clarity, including:

• Hundreds of new and revised problems and new case studies cover a broader spectrum of chemical engineering applications.
• Guidance for solving problems that require spread sheeting and equation-solving software.
• A CD-ROM that provides an active learning environment. With this software, students respond to questions and receive immediate feedback, explore variations in process parameters and see the effect of their changes on process operations, and more.
• 2005 Edition icons in the text margin let you know when it's most helpful to use the ICPP CD-ROM and the Student Workbook.

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Good buy
product arrived earlier than expected. came as expected. saved a lot of money by buying online.

Good Choice
The book came exactly on time and in the condition as promised.Would deffinately order from them again.

Textbook
The book examples were good but the homework problems were extremely difficult. There was really now in between.

Product Was Better than Advertised
The book arrived in a very timely manner and was in better condition than advertised.I was quite please with the order and would certainly buy from this vendor again.

Well Done
Book came quickly and in good condition.Even came with tabs already attached for easy access to important tables. ... Read more

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This best-selling book prepares readers to formulate and solve material and energy balances in chemical process systems. It provides a realistic, informative, and positive introduction to the practice of chemical engineering. ... Read more

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buyer beware
Unless they have changed the description, be aware this does not come with CDROM.The workbook itself is great (for my son at U of I) but I really wanted the companion CD (why I ordered from amazon in the first place at a much higher price I might add).

Useful Workbook
Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes is a very useful workbook for students and university staff. It may help you solving problems aroundProcesses and Process Variables, Fundamentals of Material Balances, Single-Phase Systems and Multiple Systems. At the end of the book you can find selected answers. ... Read more

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*********Text available as of 2/20/2004!*********Fluid Mechanics for Chemical Engineers, third edition retains the characteristics that made this introductory text a success in prior editions. It is still a book that emphasizes material and energy balances and maintains a practical orientation throughout. No more math is included than is required to understand the concepts presented. To meet the demands of today's market, the author has included many problems suitable for solution by computer. Two brand new chapters are included. The first, on mixing, augments the book's coverage of practical issues encountered in this field. The second, on computational fluid dynamics (CFD), shows students the connection between hand and computational fluid dynamics. ... Read more

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A good book for fluid mechanics
I bought the 1st ed. (1970) which suprisingly seems identical in much of the content to the 3rd (2004) as a suppliment to a truely horrible book. This book seems to elaborate on many topics, qualitative and quantitative, that either aren't covered or only "covered"in other books. Not sure why its "for Chemical Engineers" as much of the material seems to be general fluid mechanics applicable to many other fields.

Not good....
This book is bad.

In equation developments, it uses cartesian coordinates in a funky way.It changes them!This might not be a problem, but this book uses coordinate systems that don't follow the right-hand rule.For me this was very disturbing, because throughout my education the right-hand rule for coordinate systems was God's word.

Another thing is the example problems.When the book shows you the solution, it jumps right into numbers, without even showing you the symbolic development, or what numbers represent what variables.It expects you to infer this from the units!

N.B. I've only read the first 50 pages or so of this book, and my frustration led me to write this review.My opinions aren't supported with a complete sense of the book.Then again, the fact that even the elementary, development part of the book frustrates me could show just how bad this book will become in the latter parts.

it is too superficial book.
Now , I study fluid mechanics twice. First time , I didn't know , superficial or detail. But I feel now It is too superficial about fluid mechanics. I am sorry that not many fluid mechanics book for engineersexist. If you have ever listend about other Transport subject , you canfeel. But to some people who want truely basic concept about fluidmechanics , this book will be good friend with you. ... Read more

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Chemical Engineering Design is one of the best-known and widely adopted texts available for students of chemical engineering. It deals with the application of chemical engineering principles to the design of chemical processes and equipment. Revised throughout, the fourth edition covers the latest aspects of process design, operations, safety, loss prevention and equipment selection, among others. Comprehensive and detailed, the book is supported by problems and selected solutions. In addition the book is widely used by professionals as a day-to-day reference.

* Best selling chemical engineering text
* Revised to keep pace with the latest chemical industry changes; designed to see students through from undergraduate study to professional practice
* End of chapter exercises and solutions ... Read more

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Great Product
This book is an excellent book for a Chemical Engineer final year student or Chemical/Process Engineer professional. It outlines the whole spectrum for Process Engineer design, from management skills for a project, preferrable site location, actual design of Process equipment/vessels, etc. This book is definately an execellent buy for a Chemical/Process Engineer.

A very complete and helpful guide for process design
It's a very complete guide for process design. It considers both standards and directives form US and EU. The main considerations about how to start and carry out the first steps on process design are very complete and helpful.

Great Catalog for options are available
I found this book be an excellent summary of equipment capacities. There a several tables showing ranges of equipment based on a particular process variable and pro/con tables to aid in your selection. What is in short supply are anything but basic design equations for equipment. This is also true for an old favorite of mine: "Handbook of Separation Techniques for Chemical Engineers" by Philip A. Schweitzer. This textbook is less current, may be more useful for basic design, though more narrow.

My suggestion is to have Schweitzer and Sinnott's book in the design section of your professional library. Be careful with this book because it is paperback.

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Avoid wasting time and money on recurring plant process problems by applying the practical, five-step solution in Process Engineering Problem Solving: Avoiding "The Problem Went Away, but it Came Back" Syndrome. Combine cause and effect problem solving with the formulation of theoretically correct working hypotheses and find a structural and pragmatic way to solve real-world issues that tend to be chronic or that require an engineering analysis. Utilize the fundamentals of chemical engineering to develop technically correct working hypotheses that are key to successful problem solving. ... Read more

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Great Book for Young Engineers!
Process Engineering Problem Solving is an excellent book for young engineers working in the process industries. Joe M Bonem, presents a five step problem solving and root cause analysis method that works on every problem you might encounter in the industry.He classifies problems by type - prime movers, plate processes, kinetically limited and unstable processes. Using the same fact finding and questioning techniques he teaches the reader how to get to the root cause and provide solutions to prevent problems from coming back.It is a book that I wish I would have had 20 years ago as a young process engineer. ... Read more

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Rheology--the study of the deformation and flow of matter--deals primarily with the stresses generated during the flow of complex materials including polymers, colloids, foams, and gels. A rapidly growing and industrially important field, it plays a significant role in polymer processing, food processing, coating and printing, and many other manufacturing processes.

Designed as a main text for advanced undergraduate- or graduate-level courses in rheology or polymer rheology, Understanding Rheology is also an ideal self-teaching guide for practicing engineers and scientists who find rheological principles applicable to their work. Covering the most important aspects of elementary modern rheology, this detailed and accessible text opens with an introduction to the field and then provides extensive background chapters on vector and tensor operations and Newtonian fluid mechanics. It continues with coverage of such topics as:

*Standard Flows for Rheology
*Material Functions
*Experimental Observations
*Generalized Newtonian Fluids
*Generalized Linear-Viscoelastic Fluids
*Nonlinear Constitutive Equations
*Rheometry, including rheo-optics

Understanding Rheology incorporates helpful pedagogical aids including numerous problems for each chapter, many worked examples, and an extensive glossary. It also contains useful appendices on nomenclature, mathematical tools, predictions of constitutive equations, and birefringence. ... Read more

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Good beginner's book
The book covers the basic tools needed to understand rheology.
From the vector and tensor analysis to the constitutive equations, this book offers good detail.It does lack some in-depth analysis of more difficult problems.The examples in the book are much different than assigned problems.
The polymeric section containing the memory function was sufficient, however, it was not as clearly presented as in previous chapters.

Overall, I recommend this book. ... Read more

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This book introduces the basic concepts of chemical engineering plant design and operation at a level understandable to graduate chemists and other scientists. It is aimed particularly at industrial chemists who find themselves working on chemical engineering-type unit operations. It is intended to be a "dip-in" reference, giving guidance on how to, for instance, design pumps, how to measure key process variables and how to use these to calculate the essential design parameters, such as heat and mass transfer coefficients, required for the design (and analysis) of typical unit operations (e.g. heat exchangers, distillation columns, reactors). Other issues, such as safety, project economic appraisal and process control are also covered. The book avoids derivations from first principles, simply providing the necessary equations and explaining and demonstrating their use.

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This tribute to the engineers who transformed laboratory reactions into large production facilities focuses on petroleum refining and penicillin production. The book accompanies CHF's traveling exhibit by the same name. ... Read more

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Methods for more planet-friendly process engineering

Our earth is just one big, complex Process Facility with limited air, water, and mineral resources. It responds to a number of process variables—among them, humanity and the environmental effects of our carbon consumption. What can professionals in the Hydrocarbon Process Industry do to retard environmental degradation? Rather than looking to exotic technology for solutions, Process Engineering for a Small Planet details ready-at-hand methods that the process engineer can employ to help combat the environmental crisis.

Drawing from the author's professional experience working with petroleum refineries petroleum refineries, petrochemical plants, and natural gas wells, this handbook explains how to operate and retrofit process facilities to:

• Reuse existing process equipment
• Save energy
• Reduce greenhouse gas emissions
• Expand plant capacity without installing new equipment
• Reduce corrosion and equipment failures

Covering topics from expanding fractionator and compressor capacity and vacuum tower heater expansion to minimizing process water consumption and increasing centrifugal pump capacity, Process Engineering for a Small Planet offers big ideas for saving our small planet. ... Read more

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This book deals with the design and integration of chemical processes, emphasizing the conceptual issues that are fundamental to the creation of the process. Chemical process design requires the selection of a series of processing steps and their integration to form a complete manufacturing system. The text emphasizes both the design and selection of the steps as individual operations and their integration. Also, the process will normally operate as part of an integrated manufacturing site consisting of a number of processes serviced by a common utility system. The design of utility systems has been dealt with in the text so that the interactions between processes and the utility system and interactions between different processes through the utility system can be exploited to maximize the performance of the site as a whole.

Chemical processing should form part of a sustainable industrial activity. For chemical processing, this means that processes should use raw materials as efficiently as is economic and practicable, both to prevent the production of waste that can be environmentally harmful and to preserve the reserves of raw materials as much as possible. Processes should use as little energy as economic and practicable, both to prevent the build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels and to preserve reserves of fossil fuels. Water must also be consumed in sustainable quantities that do not cause deterioration in the quality of the water source and the long-term quantity of the reserves. Aqueous and atmospheric emissions must not be environmentally harmful, and solid waste to landfill must be avoided. Finally, all aspects of chemical processing must feature good health and safety practice.

It is important for the designer to understand the limitations of the methods used in chemical process design. The best way to understand the limitations is to understand the derivations of the equations used and the assumptions on which the equations are based. Where practical, the derivation of the design equations has been included in the text.

The book is intended to provide a practical guide to chemical process design and integration for undergraduate and postgraduate students of chemical engineering, practicing process designers and chemical engineers and applied chemists working in process development. Examples have been included throughout the text. Most of these examples do not require specialist software and can be performed on spreadsheet software. Finally, a number of exercises have been added at the end of each chapter to allow the reader to practice the calculation procedures. ... Read more

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CHEMICAL PROCESS DESIGN
DEAR SIRS:

THIS BOOK IS THE BEST CHOICE THAT I COULD DO.

I CHEECK ALL THE CONTENTS AND IT HAS ALL THE INFORMATION THAT I NEED, I'M A CHEMICAL ENGINEERING AND FOR MY IS TOO USEFUL.

THANKS

A great book either as textbook or as handbook
Chemical Process Design and Integration covers all different aspects of conceptual chemical process design, using clear examples and thorough explanation. I enjoyed this book very much.

What's Your Philosophy
What you think of what makes this book unique is what you think of the mid eightys publications of bodo linhoff on pinch technology.If nothing else the text doesn't cover fluid flow very well.

Good introduction, slightly ouf of date
The book is very useful introduction into the field of pinch analysis by one of leading researchers in the field and covers everything that currently is standard practice in industry. It is not up to date with newerdevelopments like the application of pinch technolgy to waste watermanagement or to mass exchange networks and to the automatic generation ofheat exchanger networks via mathematical programming.

good contents, poor printed to the figures
To publisher: I didn't understand well how do you make the figures including the words in your book. Some words and characters in some figures cannot see clearly, as page 62 figure 2.10. ... Read more

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This survey of the current state of the art in computational models for turbulent reacting flows carefully analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of the various techniques described. Rodney Fox focuses on the formulation of practical models as opposed to numerical issues arising from their solution. He develops a theoretical framework based on the one-point, one-time joint probability density function (PDF). The study reveals that all commonly employed models for turbulent reacting flows can be formulated in terms of the joint PDF of the chemical species and enthalpy. ... Read more