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Carol Buck's book is worth its weight in gold. Easy read. Good illustrations. The CD-ROM gives you a good feeling for the time element involved for the CPC exam. The questions on the CD-ROM give you good practice also. Carol Buck's method of study is helpful too. Follow her directions. After completing Carol Buck's review guide, I felt ready and confident for the CPC exam.
The only glitch was that I found a few mistakes in the review guide. Don't let that stop you from purchasing her book or any of her books.

This type of book is very important in California and many statesthese days in school teachers and administrators reexamine whatthey are doing and seeking where the education process has to improve. We cannot interpret well the present, nor percieve well the future unless we examine the past. Methods study is very relavent.

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.

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I only answered the minimum number of questions in the real test and passed! This is the reviewer of the century! The real deal. When you need to take a break from answering computer-based questions and/or while commuting or outside of the house read and answer the questions here. This is a great book!

This book grew out of ten one hour workshops for upper-elementary school kids that the authors developed working with classroom teachers. The seventy-nine fifth graders who did the first version of these raised their median performance on the total battery of the district's annual normed multiple choice achievement test from a normal curve equivalent of 41 to a normal curve equivalent of 65.7. (Detailed step by step accounts of what the teachers and kids did and why are the heart of the book, and the materials they used are in an appendix.) The workshops focus on collaborative activities that help students learn how to show more of what they actually know on tests like these, paying some attention to helping them manage their feelings as well as attention to helping them understand how the questions work and ways to go about answering them successfully. Other chapters discuss issues teachers face in explaining norm-referenced results to parents and what teachers can and can't ethically do about helping kids improve their test taking. (One gives a clear comprehensible review of some relatively sophisticated and practically important issues about how norm-referenced tests are constructed and what the results can and can't actually be used for, too.) This is a smart, principled and practical book that will be especially useful to teachers who'd like to use collaborative, inquiry based learning to help their students do better on multiple choice, standardized assessments.

This book was very useful for me because I wanted to know everything about the Law, exam and interview. It may be useful for new immigrants who have been for 5 years or more. The DVD format made things very easy. It is translated into Spanish and that is wonderful. I went for an interview in Dec. 2004 and guess what, I passed it and became a U.S. Citizen.

Excellent guide book. Step-by-step instructions are clear and easy to follow. I would recommend this book to any clergy who has basic understanding of tax forms. Otherwise, seek tax assistance from a professional.

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The new edition of Snell's Clinical Anatomy-An Illustrated Review with Questions and Explanations provides the perfect accompaniment for its parent text-Clinical Anatomy for Medical Students. The book is based on the format of the progenitor text but is essentially a condensed version of the latter. As such, it is particularly suitable for those readers (medical, dental, allied health science students) who require an easy-to-use quick reference review of basic clinical anatomy which is ideal for exam preparation purposes, or as a stand alone text for first-time students embarking on a clinical anatomy course. One of the most impressive features of Snell's Illustrated Review is the widespread utilisation of detailed tables and figures which enhance the memorisation of anatomical facts and simplify the learning process. Undoubtedly, many students struggle to assimilate the elaborate and at times seemingly inexhaustive amount of information commonly encountered in anatomy lectures - particularly the complex intricacies of the musculoskeletal and nervous systems. However, Snell's text manages to present concise yet thorough descriptions of muscles and their origins, insertions, nerve supplies and actions, as well as nicely summarising cranial nerves and the branches of the various plexi and their distributions in a highly accessible manner. Each chapter concludes with an extensive bank of National Board type questions which come complete with both answers and explanation which facilitate test-taking skills and enhance critical thinking. Current diagnostic imaging techniques (radiographs, CT scans, MRIs and sonograms) are also included to demonstrate anatomy as it is often viewed from a clinical perspective. In summary, Clinical Anatomy - An Illustrated Review with Questions and Explanations is an impressive streamlined yet comprehensive anatomical reference which may be used as a high-yield refresher/revision tool in its own right or as a companion resourse to the highly successful parent book, Clinical Anatomy for Medical Students.