Best unit operations & transport books according to redditors
We found 29 Reddit comments discussing the best unit operations & transport books. We ranked the 12 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 29 Reddit comments discussing the best unit operations & transport books. We ranked the 12 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
All of the books I can see from top to bottom on Amazon:
Books & Speakers | Price (New)
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Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering (4th Edition) | $122.84
Molecular Thermodynamics | $80.17
Physical Chemistry: A Molecular Approach | $89.59
Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids, Nuclei, and Particles | $128.32
Introduction to Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics (The Mcgraw-Hill Chemical Engineering Series) | $226.58
Organic Chemistry 8th Edition | $186.00
Elementary Differential Equations | $217.67
Numerical Methods for Engineers, Sixth Edition | $200.67
Applied Partial Differential Equations | $20.46
Transport Phenomena, 2nd Edition | $85.00
Basic Engineering Data Collection and Analysis | $239.49
Calculus (9th Edition) | $146.36
Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes, 3rd Edition | $206.11
Inorganic Chemistry (4th Edition) | $100.00
Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer | $197.11
Biochemistry: A Short Course, 2nd Edition | $161.45
Separation Process Principles: Chemical and Biochemical Operations | $156.71
University Physics with Modern Physics (13th Edition) | $217.58
Speakers | $50.00
Most you can get is $1476.86 (selling all of the books (used and hard cover) in person), and if you sell it on Amazon, they take around 15% in fees, so you'll still get $1255.33. But wait...if you sell it to your university's book store, best they can do is $.01.
Total cost: $2832.11 (including speakers)
Net loss: -$1355.25 (books only). If sold on Amazon, net loss: -$1576.78 (books only). Speakers look nice; I wouldn't sell them.
Edit: Added the two books and the table. /u/The_King_of_Pants gave the price of speakers. ¡Muchas gracias para el oro! Reminder: Never buy your books at the bookstore.
Edit 2: Here are most of the books on Library Genesis
Thanks to /u/WhereToGoTomorrow
> Methanol does not form an azeotrope with either ethanol or water.
The only azeotrope I mention is the one formed between ethanol and water.
>What this post says is definitely not true, and is contradictory to real chemistry. If acetone and other volatile compounds (like methanol) are distilled in the foreshots.
No it is not, it is perfectly in line with real chemistry. It is not in line with the simplified version we explain to lay people on how distillation works. Boiling point is not the only factor involved. Of course this post is also an over simplification, and is targeted at a particular audience, readers of this sub using small scale distillation equipment.
Here is an example run analysis of a sugar wash. Can you explain why isoamyl-acetate presents such a large fraction in the foreshots, when its boiling point is 142C? Or even the slightly elevated presence of furfurol, which has a boiling point of 162C?
>"Methanol removal is treated separately and requires its own process to concentrate and extract using specialized equipment."
I touched on this, it is separated using large plated columns whose sole purpose is to isolate and remove methanol. An azeotropic mixture of water/ethanol containing other components (methanol in this case) is fed above the middle of a 70+ plate column at near boiling. Steam injection at the bottom performs the distillation, while hot water is added to the top of the column and moves a methanol enriched cut to the top of the column, while the cleaned product is removed at the bottom plate as a lower proof spirit, to be run through another rectification stage to return to azeotrope. This is performed on 96% input feed which has already been through a rectifying column with the heads and tails removed. Due to the low water content of the input feed and greatly reduced heads/tails load, this column can more properly do boiling point separation combined with the water feed and using the particular properties of methanol and water. If you'd like a more technical overview of the process, I'd suggest reading "Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering".
Other methods can be employed, such as pressure swing distillation, azeotropic distillation and similarly extractive distillation, using other solvents.
Pot stills and small reflux columns cannot do any of this. There will be methanol in your foreshots, certainly. As well as being in your hearts, tails and in the backset. These are trace levels and distillation is never carried out on azeotrope boiler volumes.
Did you read the study I linked, where the recycling of tails was the primary factor in elevated methanol levels in fruit brandy?
Bird Stewat Lightfoot there are sample problems.
I think I had this for a sophomore class and found it too basic to be of value. Maybe unit ops
https://www.amazon.com/Unit-Operations-Chemical-Engineering-McGraw/dp/0072848235
Transport and thermo and some applications
Transport Processes and Separation Process Principles
Christie John Geankoplis
Favorite author is Felder. His entry level book contains violations of the 2nd law of thermodynamics though, so it can't be my favorite book. You SHOULD read some of his writing though! Very passionate instructor!
>"I don't belong here...I'm clever and hard-working
enough to have faked them out all these years and
they all think I'm great but I know better...and one
of these days they're going to catch on...they'll ask
the right question and find out that I really don't
understand...and then...and then.... "
I got my PE last April. I recommend you get a study manual with practice problems from amazon and work your way through it chapter by chapter. Then, a month before the exam start the NCEES practice exam questions over and over again until you understand how to do each question. The NCEES questions are really close to those on the exam with a few twists and a few new ones thrown in. You should be spending 10 hrs each week for 4 month preparing for it. I recommend this series of review manuals: Chemical Engineering Reference Manual for the PE Exam, 6th ed. also Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering and Levenspiel's Reaction Engineering. Also, get yourself a copy of Crane TP410.
Edited to correct links.
Transport Phenomena
THIS IS MY BSL. THERE ARE MANY LIKE IT, BUT THIS ONE IS MINE. MY BSL IS MY BEST FRIEND. IT IS MY LIFE. I MUST MASTER IT AS I MASTER MY LIFE. WITHOUT ME, MY BSL IS USELESS. WITHOUT MY BSL, I AM USELESS. I MUST USE MY CONSTITUTIVE EQUATIONS TRUE. I MUST MAKE MOMENTUM BALANCES BETTER THAN MY ENEMY, WHO IS TRYING TO OUT-BALANCE ME. I MUST DESIGN HIS PIPES BEFORE HE DESIGNS MINE. I WILL. BEFORE THE ICHEME I SWEAR THIS CREED: MY BSL AND MYSELF ARE DEFENDERS OF MY PROFESSION. WE ARE THE MASTERS OF OUR ENEMY, WE ARE THE SAVIOURS OF OUR PLANT. SO BE IT, UNTIL THERE IS NO ENEMY, BUT PEACE. AMEN.
Well... I just have my textbooks. It appears you can try it for 7 days.
Else you could just look up wikipedia under Hashimoto's and under T4 (thyroxine) and T3
You can also buy legally the international version of your textbooks, they often come from India and cost a fraction of the US version for an identical content. An example I actually bought a few years back when only the hardback edition was available: https://www.amazon.com/Analysis-Transport-Phenomena-Chemical-Engineering/dp/0199740283/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1504820071&sr=8-2&keywords=william+M+deen
$180 versus the international version https://www.amazon.com/Analysis-Transport-Phenomena-William-Deen/dp/0198098588/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1504820071&sr=8-1&keywords=william+M+deen $18
I was 28 when I started med school. I got in on my first try but since my GPA sucked I applied only to DO schools (which in the US are equivalent to MD schools but admittedly are somewhat easier to get into).
In regards to the labs, that's a tough one. I think it could potentially be very difficult to learn about some of those in isolation because the labs themselves are little more than windows into a whole world of interlocking physiology that is tough to break into bite-sized pieces. If I had to pick a single book I would probably pick this one, but if you decide to tackle this for real just know that you will be missing a lot without the requisite physiology. Here is the main physiology book we used in med school. It is readable, and excellent.
Good luck on your med school plans! If the labwork is piquing your interest, that's a good sign. I think this stuff is absolutely fascinating and the more you learn, the bigger the world gets. Enjoy!
Thermodynamics is usually covered separately from fluid mechanics. At least in chemical engineering, fluid mechanics is usually covered together with heat transfer and mass transfer, since they are all mathematically very similar, and can be grouped together as 'transport phenomena'. Fluid mechanics = transport of momentum, Heat transfer = transport of heat, mass transfer = transport of mass.
Anyway, if you are only interested in fluid mechanics, my favorite textbook is Middleman. For an entry-level textbook that covers all three, I like the W^3 textbook.
For more advanced transport phenomena, the de-facto standard is Bird, Stewart, and Lightfoot. A lot of schools actually use this for their undergraduate course, but I frankly think it's too difficult for an introductory text. For students that already know the fundamentals though, it's an excellent reference book.
For real graduate-level analysis, I really like Deen's book.
Caveat: all these textbooks are pretty expensive, and can run you close to $100 even used. There might be much less expensive alternatives that still teach the material well.
For Statistical physics I would second the recommendation of Pathria. Huang is also good.
For electromagnetism the standard is Jackson. I think it is pedagogically terrible, but I was able to slowly make my way through it. I don't know of a better alternative, and once you get the hang of it the book is a great reference. The problems in this book border from insane to impossible.
So that's the basics. It's up to you where to go from there. If you do decide to learn QFT or GR, my recommendations are Itzykson and Carroll respectively.
Good luck to you!
By chemist, do you mean undergraduate or postgraduate? What year of study are they in? It'd be difficult to study statistical mechanics from scratch; make sure the following prerequisites are in order:
For an introductory level book, I quite enjoyed Bowley and Sanchez. They go through relevant ideas in probability already and the appendix covers up some of the mathematical prerequisites. Further down the line, Huang is an excellent book: it is significantly more advanced than the previous, but the contents is both broad and detailed (I still refer to it for topics like the 2D Ising model). At the same time, you could also consider Volume 5 of the famous Course of Theoretical Physics by Landau and Lifshitz. The Course is famously hardcore, but it imparts mastery like nothing else.
http://www.amazon.com/Transport-Processes-Separation-Principles-Operations/dp/013101367X/ref=la_B001IOF5OI_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1343657347&sr=1-1
Easily the best engineering book I ever purchased.
Analysis, Synthesis and Design of Chemical Processes (co-authored by one of my professors)
Separation Process Engineering
Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering
Transport Processes and Separation Process Principles
Introductory Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes (newest edition)
There were all of my texts from most recent to oldest that should have pertinent information to what all you're covering. I don't know where they would be covering parts 9-11 but I imagine that could be part of Separations.
They may have changed now, but chemcical process principles probably still uses http://www.amazon.com/Elementary-Principles-Chemical-Processes-Richard/dp/047168757X
the thermo book is very professor dependent.
this was another one, but I think it was mass transfer http://www.amazon.com/Transport-Processes-Separation-Principles-Operations/dp/013101367X/ref=sr_1_45?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1398311420&sr=1-45&keywords=chemical+engineering+fluid+mechanics
the first book I linked will definitely give you the best head start, spending any time with any others would probably be a waste of time. I can find my fluid dynamics book at work tomorrow, but I wouldnt get too worried about it, to be honest.
I've used Fundamentals of Momentum Heat and Mass Transfer from Wiley.
Like others have said Learncheme is a good resource. Which part of Heat Transfer are you trying to learn?
For an undergraduate approach I recommend Schroeder. However, this book starts with thermal physics which is, well, a bit boring ;). The math is not hard, but developing that 'physics instinct' can sometimes be challenging.
For a more advanced, but very nice and systematic text, I recommend Toda, Kubo, et al.. Another graduate text is Huang.
There are also the books by Feynman and Landau and Lifshitz Pt. 1 (Pt. 2 is quantum field theory, which at this stage you probably will want to avoid).
That does it. I'm pulling out the old Bird, Stewart, and Lightfoot and putting a hex on you. You're lucky my wife's asleep; I'm just an engineer, but as a working experimental physicist she can do death magic.
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Still need these, btw.
Bird, Stewart, Lightfoot...BSL for those in the know.
BSL
This book has this information and a lot more:
https://www.amazon.ca/Transport-Phenomena-R-Byron-Bird/dp/0470115394
this is my very favorite text book from school. It'll get you started, although I don't remember if it specifically had a section on dryers or spray dryers, it has all the physical property tables you'll need, I think chapter 8 was relevant to your question.
this I do not own, but I've heard good things about, will probably have higher level stuff and be more specific to your application.
Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering by McGraw Hill and Perry's Chemical Engineering Handbook have the information on calculating heat transfer coefficients for heat exchangers. Heat exchangers can require itterative calculations if you're doing the calcs by hand. It's much easier to use software like HTRI
This book! Used it my in graduate continuum mechanics course and learned a lot, a bit more advance than BSL.