Chemistry Books

Dr. Dressler did an excellent job in editing this book about the chemical dynamics in extreme environments, covering the areas of this subject in both theories and experiments. The chapters are written by some of the leading experts in the field, and together they will be of great interest to experts and newcomers, both of whom will benefit from the in-depth discussions of the latest models, methods and results. The whole book is informative and organized. 5 stars.

The 2007 edition of the book is thoroughly revised and includes information not only for the PE examination, but also for doing everyday process engineering calculations. I strongly recommend anyone engaged in process engineering or preparing for P.E. examination to buy this book along with the companion book on Problems and Solutions.

This book, comprising twenty chapters, has nearly 800 pages: a voluminous book. The chapters include Units and Dimensions (22 pages), Material Balances (54 pages), Energy Balance and Thermodynamics (53 pages), Fluid Mechanics(78 pages), Heat Transfer(69 pages), Evaporation(14 pages), Filtration (16 pages), Membrane Separation(9 pages), Mass Transfer Fundamentals(52 pages), Distillation(64 pages), Absorption(25 pages), Liquid-Liquid Extraction and Leaching(33 pages), Adsorption(18 pages), Psychrometry, Humidification, and Drying(23 pages), Chemical Reaction Engineering(78 pages), Process Control(25 pages), Corrosion and Materials of Construction(16 pages), Equipment Design(40 Pages), Engineering Economics(24 pages), and Plant Safety and Environmental Consideration(59 pages), Index(16 pages).

Each chapter has numerous example problems to illustrate the application. The Introduction of the book, not mentioned above, gives information about how to become a professional engineer, examination structure, the website and telephone number of various State Authorities, and practical hints like what to take to examinations.

Chapter 1 discusses the various units including the US Customary unit and SI, and the conversion factors. Chapter 2 starts with material properties, discusses mass balances, phase behavior, ideal and real gases, fuels and combustion. Chapter 3 deals with thermodynamic properties, three laws of thermodynamics, thermo-chemistry, power cycles and refrigeration. Chapter 4 deals with Fluid Mechanics. This is a very strong chapter not only for P.E. examination, but also for regular process design. It deals with fluid mechanics application including parallel and branched systems, compressible fluid, and two-phase flow, the 3-K method of calculating fluid flow resistance, and pump hydraulics. The line-sizing guideline table 4.2 is very handy and demonstrates practical wisdom of the authors.

The chapter 5 on heat transfer is another very good chapter. All modes of heat transfer including conduction, convection, and radiation, and unit operations of sublimation, batch heat exchanger design, nonmetallic heat exchangers, extended surface heat exchanger, and effectiveness NTU method have been covered. Chapters 6 and 7 cover both fundamentals and applications through worked out problems in evaporator and filter design. Chapter 8 covers the unit operation of reverse osmosis. The mathematical model for batch reverse osmosis is quite handy. Chapter 9 shows an elaborate treatment of mass transfer fundamentals including molecular diffusion, convective and turbulent mass transfer, inter-phase mass transfer, VLE, and mass transfer in packed beds.

Chapter 10 on distillation is a well written chapter covering flash distillation, differential distillation, McCabe-Thiele method, short-cut methods on multi-component distillations etc. Chapter 11 on absorption is very handy with step-by-step procedure of designing an absorption column with a lot of practical tips. Chapter 12 on liquid-liquid extraction and leaching demonstrates an excellent application of right triangular diagram on extraction and determination of minimum reflux ratio, and design of packed column in extraction service. Similar comments apply to Chapter 13 which deals with adsorption and design of fixed bed adsorption. Chapter 14 addresses Psychrometry, Humidification, and Drying. It explains well such terms as humid volume, humid heat capacity, wet and dry bulb temperature, adiabatic saturation temperature, and demonstrate the use of humidity chart very well through examples.

Chapter 15 is thorough on Chemical Reaction Engineering, interpretation of kinetic data and the constants of the rate equation, reactor design, mass and energy balance, product distribution and its dependence on temperature, batch reactor, CSTR, packed bed reactor, catalytic reactor, ignition-extinction curve and multiple steady states in heat transfer, and is followed by numerous example problems. Chapter 16 addresses the basic aspects of process control including feedback and feed forward control, application of Laplace transforms, control actions, first and second order systems, and concepts of stability criteria. Chapter 17 outlines the eight forms of corrosion and has good tips on how to avoid corrosion by a good mechanical design. Chapter 18 on Equipment Design has a wealth of practical knowledge not taught in school. I understood for the first time the difference between the design pressure and maximum allowable working pressure as defined in ASME Code. It instructs on how to develop the mechanical design parameters of equipment.

Chapter 19 on Engineering Economics deals with time value of money, depreciation calculations, and cost comparison of alternatives, Chemical Engineering Plant Cost Index, break-even analysis, optimization, and many solved problems. Chapter 20 on Plant Safety and Environmental Consideration is another chapter full of practical knowledge not taught in many schools. It deals with toxicology and industrial hygiene, fire and explosion issues, hazard and operability studies, environmental considerations including air pollution, water pollution, and land pollution, and noise abatement. It also gives guidelines of sizing emergency relief devices for various over pressure scenarios including runaway reactions per established codes and standards. Finally, it includes a sixteen-page subject index to locate a subject very quickly.

There are some areas that the authors should consider to improve. There has been some duplication of efforts. For example, the generalized pressure drop correlation is duplicated in Chapter 10 and Chapter 11, the former having the latest one. There are some errors which the reader can quickly figure out: hopefully they will be eliminated in the next edition. Overall, this is an excellent study book for P.E. Exam, and a book I would like to have as a companion in my chemical engineering career.

The book was as described and also arrived in a very good time. I could not have asked for more from any Seller

The first chapter might be titled "Why what you have read in the newspapers or seen on TV about globalization is mostly wrong"! It comes as no suprise that the popular media are "econmics challenged." Jones presents the facts, thoroughly documented, that show globalization is not about exporting American jobs, but rather ongoing productivity improvement is why there are fewer jobs in manufacturing today. He is concerned about the trendiness that infects business managers to put all new research and development offshore, however. He makes the case that Congress is doing more via the law of unintended consequences to drive the chemical industry overseas.
The section on pharmaceuticals is first rate, with extensive references, on how big and little pharma now have a symbiotic relationship and how governments woo them them to come and work in their country -- or in some cases, to go and work somewhere else. It's nice to know that pharma, on net, moves more R&D into the US than out of it. All of the major countries are covered.
The section on China makes you want to do business there, but also cautions on what can go wrong and how to avoid bad things happening. Also thoroughly documented, this review shows how the the Chinese economy can continue to grow for a very long time by just meeting the needs of its own hugh population alone, but the entrepreneurial Chinese culture will also always be involved elsewhere in the world.

This is one of my favorite books on Instrumental Analysis. It's basically a combination of 3/4 reference material and 1/4 teaching material on analytical chemical instrumentation. It's designed for undergraduates in senior analytical chemistry courses and grad students. Could also be used by working (analytical) chemists as a refresher or to learn new techniques.

Its best feature is the broad and deep coverage of the big 3 analytical techniques - chromatography, spectroscopy and electrochemistry. Although, too many chapters are devoted to electrochemistry. This subject is interesting to academics - problem is, in the real world of analytical chemistry the 2 major workhorses are spectroscopy and separations. Electrochemical techniques are just not that widely used & certainly not to the extent you'd think after reading this book.

Besides the big 3, we get everything else a student is likely to encounter: electronics, computers & data acquisition, optics, stats, measurement theory, S/N basics, mass spec., X-ray fluorescence, surface techniques and radioisotopes. Some of these topics are not treated with the depth they deserve. To do this they'd need a 2nd volume (actually, not a bad idea, come to think of it)

The book is VERY hardware oriented. It's more advanced than either Skoog's book (Principles of Instrumental Analysis) or Willard's text (Instrumental Methods of Analysis).

This book works best as a supplement to the above 2 texts for students wanting deeper or alternative explanations of selected topics. Reading this book will prepare anyone for advanced material like Spectrochemical Analysis by Ingle & Crouch or Bard & Faulkner's Electrochemical Methods.

Book has lots of excellent diagrams and tables to explain the subject at hand. End of chapter references also very good - they contain student-relevant articles and books for those looking for even further edification.

Previous editions did not have the extra expository material found in the examples or end-of-chapter problems. However, the problems are often simple and don't really add much value to the book. They seem like they were added as an afterthought to try and make 3rd edition into a full textbook. It didn't work.

only other negative point: since this book tries to survey the whole field of chemical instrumentation it becomes very thick: 1200+ pages. As such, there's not enough space to derive the equations from first principles. The equations are simply presented. If you want all the gory details you'll have to look elsewhere. like an optics textbook for instance.

This book is an excellent introduction to the basics of aquatic chemical kinetics. A large number of examples, and illustrations are provided. It is a very useful book for undergraduate environmental engineering courses.

This is an outstanding book. It provides an overview of the current status of CMP and serves as a significant update to Steigerwald's 1997 book, which summarized the state of CMP knowledge (which began for electronic applications in 1991)at that time. Much has happened in the second half of CMP's existence.

The book is well edited by Mike Oliver. It includes chapters written by well known CMP specialists that focus on process aspects (technology, equipment, pads, cleaning), on metals (theory and applications), on slurries, and on patterned wafers. It also provides chapters with overviews of CMP. Each chapter has extensive references.

The individual chapters are carefully written to offer an introduction and broad perspectives to new CMP workers while providing depth of insight and material for experienced practitioners. This is an ideal book for advanced undergraduates and graduate students who are working in the field and for those who are starting to do planarization of semiconductor materials. It is also an ideal reference book for experienced polishers since it gives information about the process at a level that is useful and insightful.

I have found the book very useful to me both for its clear summaries of material that I already know about and for its helpful explanations of areas that I am not familiar with. I highly recommend it.

This book is one I own and the laboratory at which I work has several copies. The book is consisely written with the relevent information shown. The flowcharts aid in the clinicians interpretation of the biochemical condition shown. The book is as it says not comprehensive, but includes the conditions encountered most commonly. The small size enables it to be easily carried and used, unlike some of the more weighter tomes such as Tietz or Kaplan (it is not as thorough and does not pretend to be). But if you want a usuable clinical chemistry interprative book this is the one for you.

This is a great little reference tool for any student in chemistry or engineering. You should buy this for someone you know who is entering the field. Students beginning their college career will benefit most from this handy 8.5x11 laminate. The Periodic table is loaded with valuable data (crystal structure, density, MP, BP, eletronegativity, and more). Plus, the back side is chock full of conversions, constants, organic chemistry structures, and air and water properties. As I said, a MUST HAVE for any chemistry or related science student. Even as a grad student, I use this quite often for classes and research.

Fullerene science remembered a triad of anniversaries
in 1995: 25 years since C60 appeared in the literature,
10 years since it was observed in the gas-phase, and 5 years
since it was prepared in macroscopic amounts as a solid
material. The triad was commemorated, inter alia,
at the NATO workshop which was included in the program of
the Enrico Fermi School and held in Varenna, Italy
in June 1995.

The book opens with a survey article from Kroto et al.
which places the events into a historical perspective
and links them with the contemporary research front. The
theme is further elaborated by articles from the other
three capital cities of fullerene science, written by
Smalley et al., Kratschmer and finally Huffman.
The four articles are combined into the first chapter:
Past, Present and New Horizons.

The words chemical physics from the title could
equally well read chemistry and physics, as the
following eight specialized chapters
indeed give a representative cross-section
of the present fullerene science. The individual
chapters are: Formation and Structural Growth,
Physical Properties, High Fullerenes and Endohedrals,
Exohedrals, Functionalization, Intercalated C60
Compounds, Carbon Nanotubes, Non-carbon Nanostructures.
Altogether 28 contributions expose the on-going
research in its width and vigor.

This is a valuable volume, well balanced scientifically
as well as geographically, relevant to basically any
subfield of carbon-cluster studies. The book, no doubt,
will find its way into the libraries of many fullerene
groups. The volume was published in the NATO ASI Series, E:
Applied Sciences - Vol. 316, and it has altogether 498 pp.

ISBN 0-7923-4000-0