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For 27 years, H. Scott Fogler's Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering has been the #1 selling book for undergraduate and graduate level courses in chemical reaction engineering, with over 80% market share. Now, Fogler has created a Fifth Edition of this internationally respected text. Fogler has revised and updated the graduate-level chapters of Elements, and combined that with revised and organized chapters of his undergraduate-level Essentials of Chemical Reaction Engineering, successfully integrating text, visuals, and computer simulations to help both undergraduate and graduate students master all of the field's fundamentals. The result is a refined, more up-to-date 17-chapter book that contains new examples, problems, and video instruction. Fogler's diverse problems reinforce his material, enabling students to explore key issues, seek optimum solutions, and practice critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills. To satisfy new ABET requirements, Fogler includes expanded coverage of crucial safety topics. Readers will find expanded coverage of bioreactions and industrial chemistry, introduced with real reactors and reactions, a broad range of applications, and the newest digital techniques. An interactive CD-ROM and mirror website serve as both an enrichment resource and a professional reference shelf. This is the first edition of Fogler's text that will also be available in eBook versions.
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The Definitive, Fully Updated Guide to Solving Real-World Chemical Reaction Engineering Problems
For decades, H. Scott Fogler s
Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering has been the world s dominant text for courses in chemical reaction engineering. Now, Fogler has created a new, completely updated fifth edition of his internationally respected book. The result is a refined book that contains new examples and problems, as well as an updated companion Web site. More than ever, Fogler has successfully integrated text, visuals, and computer simulations to help both undergraduate and graduate students master all of the field s fundamentals. As always, he links theory to practice through many relevant examples, ranging from standard isothermal and non-isothermal reactor design to applications, such as solar energy, blood clotting, and drug delivery, and computer chip manufacturing.
To promote the transfer of key skills to real-life settings, Fogler presents the following three styles of problems:
- Straightforward problems that reinforce the principles of chemical reaction engineering
- Living Example Problems (LEPs) that allow students to rapidly explore the issues and look for optimal solutions
- Open-ended problems that encourage students to practice creative problem-solving skills
About the Web Site The companion Web site offers extensive enrichment opportunities and additional content, including
- Complete PowerPoint slides for lecture notes for chemical reaction engineering classes.
- Links to additional software, including POLYMATH, Matlab, Wolfram Mathematica, AspenTech, and COMSOL .
- Interactive learning resources linked to each chapter, including Learning Objectives, Summary Notes, Web Modules, Interactive Computer Games, Solved Problems, FAQs, additional homework problems, and links to Learncheme.
- Living Example Problems that provide more than eighty interactive simulations, allowing students to explore the examples and ask what-if questions. The LEPs are unique to this book.
- Professional Reference Shelf, which includes advanced content on reactors, weighted least squares, experimental planning, laboratory reactors, pharmacokinetics, wire gauze reactors, trickle bed reactors, fluidized bed reactors, CVD boat reactors, detailed explanations of key derivations, and more.
- Problem-solving strategies and insights on creative and critical thinking.
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About the Author
H. Scott Fogler is the Ame and Catherine Vennema Professor of Chemical Engineering and the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan and the 2009 President of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. His research interests include flow and reaction in porous media, wax and asphaltene deposition, asphaltene flocculation kinetics, gelation kinetics, colloidal phenomena, and catalyzed dissolution. He has been research advisor to more than 45 Ph.D. students and has more than 235 refereed publications in these areas. Fogler has chaired ASEE’s Chemical Engineering Division, served as director of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and earned the Warren K. Lewis Award from AIChE for contributions to chemical engineering education. He also received the Chemical Manufacturers Association’s National Catalyst Award and the 2010 Malcom E. Pruitt Award from the council for Chemical Research (CCR). He is the coauthor of the best-selling textbook Strategies for Creative Problem Solving, Third Edition (Prentice Hall, 2014).
Table of Contents
Preface
About the Author
Chapter 1: Mole Balances
Chapter 2: Conversion and Reactor Sizing
Chapter 3: Rate Laws
Chapter 4: Stoichiometry
Chapter 5: Isothermal Reactor Design: Conversion
Chapter 6: Isothermal Reactor Design: Moles and Molar Flow Rates
Chapter 7: Collection and Analysis of Rate Data
Chapter 8: Multiple Reactions
Chapter 9: Reaction Mechanisms, Pathways, Bioreactions, and Bioreactors
Chapter 10: Catalysis and Catalytic Reactors
Chapter 11: Nonisothermal Reactor Design: The Steady-State Energy Balance and Adiabatic PFR Applications
Chapter 12: Steady-State Nonisothermal Reactor Design: Flow Reactors with Heat Exchange
Chapter 13: Unsteady-State Nonisothermal Reactor Design
Chapter 14: Mass Transfer Limitations in Reacting Systems
Chapter 15: Diffusion and Reaction
Chapter 16: Distributions of Residence Times for Chemical Reactors
Chapter 17: Predicting Conversion Directly from the Residence Time Distribution
Chapter 18: Models for Nonideal Reactors
Appendix A: Numerical Techniques
Appendix B: Ideal Gas Constant and Conversion Factors
Appendix C: Thermodynamic Relationships Involving the Equilibrium Constant
Appendix D: Software Packages
Appendix E: Nomenclature
Appendix F: Rate Law Data
Appendix G: Open-Ended Problems
Index