Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer, and Mass Transfer

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