The subject of transport phenomena has long been thoroughly and expertly addressed on the graduate and theoretical levels. Now Transport Phenomena and Unit Operations: A Combined Approach endeavors not only to introduce the fundamentals of the discipline to a broader, undergraduate-level audience but also to apply itself to the concerns of practicing engineers as they design, analyze, and construct industrial equipment.

Richard Griskeys innovative text combines the often separated but intimately related disciplines of transport phenomena and unit operations into one cohesive treatment. While the latter was an academic precursor to the former, undergraduate students are often exposed to one at the expense of the other. Transport Phenomena and Unit Operations bridges the gap between theory and practice, with a focus on advancing the concept of the engineer as practitioner. Chapters in this comprehensive volume include: Transport Processes and CoefficientsFrictional Flow in ConduitsFree and Forced Convective Heat TransferHeat ExchangersMass Transfer; Molecular DiffusionEquilibrium Staged OperationsMechanical SeparationsEach chapter contains a set of comprehensive problem sets with real-world quantitative data, affording students the opportunity to test their knowledge in practical situations. Transport Phenomena and Unit Operations is an ideal text for undergraduate engineering students as well as for engineering professionals.

In defending why he has added yet another textbook in the areas of transport and unit operations, Griskey (emeritus, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ) points out that these areas have often been divorced in the curriculum; physical chemistry has advanced into new areas; engineering science is moving toward a more fundamental approach; and undergraduate students tend to now be more sophisticated mathematically. With 570 chapter problems, numerous worked examples, and a minimum of derivation, his treatment proceeds from a phenomenological approach to the semi- empirical and empirical ones employed by practicing chemical engineers. Includes technical appendices.
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