Synopses & Reviews
This text combines a description of the origin and use of fundamental chemical kinetics through an assessment of realistic reactor problems with an expanded discussion of kinetics and its relation to chemical thermodynamics. It provides exercises, open-ended situations drawing on creative thinking, and worked-out examples. A solutions manual is also available to instructors.
Book News Annotation:
A textbook for a graduate or undergraduate course on determining the
speed of chemical reactions and using that information in chemical
engineering projects. Butt (chemical engineering, Northwestern U.,
Evanston, Illinois) details reaction kinetics beyond phenomenological
descriptions. The chapters are divided into more or less self-
contained modules dealing with a unified concept or a group of
related concepts. The exercises range from simple applications of
equations and concepts developed in the text to relatively open-ended
situations that may require arbitrary judgement and, in some
instances, have no unique answer. The first edition was published in
1980 by Prentice- Hall; the second is expanded from a more purely
undergraduate treatment and reflects shifts of emphasis in the field
and suggestions from users.
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