Abstract:
The book is intended for use by students at undergraduate and
graduate levels, faculty in Chemical Engineering Departments across the world, working and consulting engineers
in areas such as petroleum refineries, petrochemical, gas
processing and fertilizer plants, design organizations, food
and pharmaceutical processing, environmental engineering,
and the like. The book is also useful to mechanical engineering students and faculty.
The book is written with emphasis on practice with brief
theoretical concepts in the form of Questions and Answers,
bridging the two areas of theory and practice with respect to
the core areas of chemical engineering.
The author considers that the question–answer approach
adopted stimulates interest in the subject matter and focuses
attention to specific topics in a better and concise manner
than running matter given in normal text and reference books.
The approach was used by the author in the classroom for
several years, spanning a period of over four decades.
Feedback from faculty, students, alumni, and practicing
engineers in several institutions/organizations appreciated
this approach when the author used this approach during
continuing education and training courses, besides classroom
instruction. This prompted the author to embark upon writing
this book.
The book is an attempt to bridge the gap between theory
and practice in a balanced manner, so that it will be easy for
students and academics to get a grasp of practice and industry
personnel to understand theoretical concepts necessary to
appreciate the genesis involved in practice.
At the teaching level, the book is suitable for different
courses involving fluid mechanics, heat transfer, mass
transfer, and membrane technology as well as design
courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels. The
author considers it to be useful in design project work by
