Mass Transfer in Multicomponent Mixtures -(With CD-ROM)

Author: (Dutch) Wesseling, H., Krishna, R. (Author), Liu Hui (Translator)
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: This book is suitable for chemical engineers. Using this book, engineers can calculate the relative motion of components in a mixture, which is important in the design of equipment such as reactors and separation units. The content covers both conventional and modern equipment and processes, including catalytic processes and membrane processes. The methods used in the book are based on the force balance analysis of each component in the mixture (which is different from the conventional Fick equation). This method can handle any number of components and account for concentration gradient forces, as well as electric field forces, pressure gradient forces, centrifugal forces, and other field forces. It provides a unified description of all mass transfer processes, including distillation, adsorption, electrolysis, heterogeneous catalysis, chromatography, and ultrafiltration. The book comes with a CD-ROM containing approximately 100 exercises, many of which are practical computer models that can be run on the provided Mathcad Explorer program, as well as PPTs summarizing the main content of each chapter.