Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes 4th Edition by Richard M. Felder

Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes 4th Edition by Richard M. FelderBy: Richard M. Felder; Ronald W. Rousseau; Lisa G. BullardPublisher: WileyPrint ISBN: 9781118431221, 1118431227other ISBN: 9781119192107, 1119192102Edition: 4thCopyright year: 2016This best-selling text prepares students to formulate and solve material and energy balances in chemical process systems and lays the foundation for subsequent courses in chemical engineering. The text provides a realistic, informative, and positive introduction to the practice of chemical engineering.An introductory material and energy balance course traditionallyplays several important roles in the chemical engineering curriculum.On the most obvious level, it prepares the student to formulateand solve material and energy balances on chemical processsystems and lays the foundation for subsequent courses in thermodynamics,transport phenomena, separation processes, kineticsand reactor design, and process dynamics and control. Morefundamentally, it introduces the engineering approach to solvingprocess-related problems: breaking a process into its components,establishing the relations between known and unknown processvariables, assembling the information needed to solve for theunknowns using a combination of experimentation, empiricism,and the application of natural laws, and, finally, putting the piecestogether to obtain the desired problem solution.We have tried in this book to fulfill each of these functions.Moreover, recognizing that the material and energy balance courseis often the students? first real encounter with what they think maybe their chosen profession, we have attempted to provide in thetext a realistic, informative, and positive introduction to thepractice of chemical engineering. In the first chapter we surveyfields that recent chemical engineering graduates have entered anddescribe the variety of research, design, and production problemsthey might confront. In the rest of the book we systematicallydevelop the structure of elementary process analysis: definitions,measurement and calculation of process variables, conservationlaws and thermodynamic relations that govern the performance ofprocesses, and physical properties of process materials that mustbe determined in order to design a new process or analyze andimprove an existing one.