This textbook introduces the application of analytical methods to phenomena important in chemical engineering and teaches analytical skills in the context of engineering design. A principal goal is to help readers reinforce their understanding of mathematics (especially calculus) and science as they are introduced to engineering thinking.
Introductory Elements of Analysis and Design in Chemical Engineering introduces readers to how chemical engineers think. It explains the application of analytical methods to phenomena important in chemical engineering and teaches analytical skills in the context of engineering design. A principal goal is to help readers reinforce their understanding of mathematics (especially calculus) and science as they are introduced to engineering thinking.
- Emphasizes basic principles, methods, and problem solving at an elementary level.
- Presents concepts in calculus, chemistry, and physics and methods of analysis on the basis of experiment and observation.
- Connects experimental results to mathematical representations.
- Provides numerous illustrative examples and builds on them to introduce processing and process flow diagrams and to place chemical engineering in an historical context.
- Includes problems at the end of each chapter.
Aimed at readers beginning their studies in chemical engineering, this textbook offers an approachable introduction to the principles of analysis and design in chemical engineering to help readers learn to think quantitatively and with a foundation of chemical engineering concepts.
1. Introduction: Analysis, Design, and Chemical Engineering.
2. Analysis of a Draining Tank: Experiments and Equations.
3. Analysis Guided by Theory: Conservation of Mass and Conceptualization of Processes.
4. Units, Dimensions, and Dimensional Analysis.
5. Chemical Reactors and Chemical Reactions.
6. Energy, Energy Balances, Heat Transfer, and Temperature Control.
Bruce C. Gates is Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he has been a faculty member since 1992.
Robert L. Powell is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering and of Food Science and Technology at the University of California, Davis, where he was a faculty member from 1984 to 2021.
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