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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… More >>
The Engineering of Chemical Reactions
Chemical, chemical reactions, chemical reactor, engineering, materials processing, production materials, reaction engineering, Reactions
#1 by Anonymous on May 21, 2010 - 3:36 pm
This book is an excellent introduction to reaction kinetics, ideal reactor models, and related areas covered in kinetics courses in Chemical Engineering.
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by Brendan T. Richart on May 21, 2010 - 5:50 pm
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.
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by Anonymous on May 21, 2010 - 6:56 pm
Too many errors ! Move your attention to Fogler’s
Rating: 1 / 5
#4 by Anonymous on May 21, 2010 - 6:57 pm
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 on previous concepts introduced in previous chapters. A few drawbacks are; numerous errors presented throughout sample and actual problems, attempts to apply to real life reactor analysis fall short because assumptions made to reduce mathematical detail are never realized in real world problems (although they allow for crude approximations), extensive reading leads to boredom. Used as supplement to solid lecturer, the book is valuable, would not reccomend for reader trying to “self-teach” reactor analysis.
Rating: 3 / 5
#5 by Anonymous on May 21, 2010 - 9:34 pm
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.
Rating: 2 / 5