Thermal and Mechanical Unit Operations

Distillation towers of ethylene plant in Secunda, South Africa. Courtesy of SASOL 

Control valve of a urea plant. Courtesy of Uhde, Germany. 

In Chapter 3, the following thermal and mechanical unit operations will be 

Ideal and real gas, heat capacity, Joule-Thomson effect, physical transformations of pure substances, and transport properties. 

Heat conduction, convection, boiling heat transfer, radiation, transient heat transfer, forced flow in pipes and packed beds, mass transfer by diffusion, and diffusion in porous solids. 

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This book covers all four disciplines chemical aspects in Chapter 2, thermal and mechanical unit operations (Chapter 3), reaction engineering (Chapter 4), and general chemical technology (Chapter 5). In addition, 20 industrial processes are inspected in detail (Chapter 6). 

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