Principles and Applications of Mass Transfer: The Design of Separation Processes for Chemical and Biochemical Engineering

Core textbook teaching mass transfer  fundamentals and applications for the design of separation processes in  chemical, biochemical, and environmental engineering

Principles and Applications of Mass Transfer teaches  the subject of mass transfer fundamentals and their applications to the  design of separation processes with enough depth of coverage to  guarantee that students using the book will, at the end of the course,  be able to specify preliminary designs of the most common separation  process equipment. 

Reflecting the growth of  biochemical applications in the field of chemical engineering, the  fourth edition expands biochemical coverage, including transient  diffusion, environmental applications, electrophoresis, and  bioseparations. Also new to the fourth edition is the integration of  Python programs, which complement the Mathcad programs of the previous  edition. 

On the accompanying instructor’s website,  the online appendices contain a downloadable library of Python and  Mathcad programs for the example problems in each chapter. A complete  solution manual for all end-of-chapter problems, both in Mathcad and  Python, is also provided. 

Some of the topics covered in Principles and Applications of Mass Transfer include: 

•  Molecular mass transfer, covering concentrations, velocities and  fluxes, the Maxwell-Stefan relations, and Fick’s first law for binary  mixtures
•  The  diffusion coefficient, covering diffusion coefficients for binary ideal  gas systems, dilute liquids, and concentrated liquids
•  Convective mass transfer, covering mass-transfer coefficients,  dimensional analysis, boundary layer theory, and mass- and heat-transfer  analogies
•  Interphase mass transfer, covering diffusion between phases, material balances, and equilibrium-stage operations
•  Gas dispersed gas-liquid operations, covering sparged vessels, tray  towers, diameter, and gas-pressure drop, and weeping and entrainment

Principles and Applications of Mass Transfer is an essential textbook for undergraduate chemical, biochemical,  mechanical, and environmental engineering students taking a core course  on Separation Processes or Mass Transfer Operations, along with  mechanical engineers and mechanical engineering students starting to get  involved in combined heat- and mass-transfer applications.