The Engineering of Chemical Reactions

by Lanny D. Schmidt

Book Overview

Employment opportunities for chemical engineers are moving away from petroleum and petrochemicals toward new applications such as materials processing, pharmaceuticals, and foods. Chemical reactors remain at the center of any chemical process; they are essential to improving existing processes and to designing new ones. Today and in the future chemical engineers must be able to use their knowledge of reactors in combination with other skills in order...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195105885
• ISBN13: 9780195105889
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.5" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Practical, Real World Examples Beyond The A --> B Oversimplification

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.

Presents concepts in concise, easy to understand writing

This book is an excellent introduction to reaction kinetics, ideal reactor models, and related areas covered in kinetics courses in Chemical Engineering.