Chemical and Energy Process Engineering by Skogestad, Sigurd;

Short description:

Written in an easy-to-read style, this textbook is intended for second year chemical engineering courses, but is intentionally designed to be of continuing use to practicing engineers. The author, a dynamic systems expert, approaches the introductory material in a fundamental way. He provides a thorough grounding in basic mass and energy balances and highlights their importance. He also covers timely topics such as basic thermodynamics and analysis of energy efficiency. Especially popular with students, the pedagogic approaches in this book have been classroom-tested for a decade of semesters. A solutions manual is available for instructors and additional problems are posted on the web.

Long description:

Emphasizing basic mass and energy balance principles, Chemical and Energy Process Engineering prepares the next generation of process engineers through an exemplary survey of energy process engineering, basic thermodynamics, and the analysis of energy efficiency. By emphasizing the laws of thermodynamics and the law of mass/matter conservation, the author builds a strong foundation for performing industrial process engineering calculations. The book’s systematic treatment applies these core principles on a macro-level scale, allowing for more manageable calculations.

The development of new processes is demanding and exciting. The instruction within these pages enables engineers to understand and analyze existing processes and primes them for participation in the development of new ones.

Table of Contents:

Notation, concepts and numbers. Derivation of balance equations. Mass balances with reaction. The energy balance. Heat exchange. Compression and expansion. Entropy and equilibrium. Work from heat. Mechanical energy balance. Chemical reaction engineering. Process dynamics. Appendices.