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Polymers are ubiquitous and pervasive in industry, science, and
technology. These giant molecules have great significance not only
in terms of products such as plastics, films, elastomers, fibers,
adhesives, and coatings but also less ob viously though none the
less importantly in many leading industries (aerospace,
electronics, automotive, biomedical, etc.). Well over half the
chemists and chem ical engineers who graduate in the United States
will at some time work in the polymer industries. If the
professionals working with polymers in the other in dustries are
taken into account, the overall number swells to a much greater
total. It is obvious that knowledge and understanding of polymers
is essential for any engineer or scientist whose professional
activities involve them with these macromolecules. Not too long
ago, formal education relating to polymers was very limited,
indeed, almost nonexistent. Speaking from a personal viewpoint, I
can recall my first job after completing my Ph.D. The job with E.I.
Du Pont de Nemours dealt with polymers, an area in which I had no
university training. There were no courses in polymers offered at
my alma mater. My experience, incidentally, was the rule and not
the exception."
Polymers are ubiquitous and pervasive in industry, science, and
technology. These giant molecules have great significance not only
in terms of products such as plastics, films, elastomers, fibers,
adhesives, and coatings but also less ob viously though none the
less importantly in many leading industries (aerospace,
electronics, automotive, biomedical, etc.). Well over half the
chemists and chem ical engineers who graduate in the United States
will at some time work in the polymer industries. If the
professionals working with polymers in the other in dustries are
taken into account, the overall number swells to a much greater
total. It is obvious that knowledge and understanding of polymers
is essential for any engineer or scientist whose professional
activities involve them with these macromolecules. Not too long
ago, formal education relating to polymers was very limited,
indeed, almost nonexistent. Speaking from a personal viewpoint, I
can recall my first job after completing my Ph.D. The job with E.I.
Du Pont de Nemours dealt with polymers, an area in which I had no
university training. There were no courses in polymers offered at
my alma mater. My experience, incidentally, was the rule and not
the exception."
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 Griskey's 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 Coefficients
* Frictional Flow in Conduits
* Free and Forced Convective Heat Transfer
* Heat Exchangers
* Mass Transfer; Molecular Diffusion
* Equilibrium Staged Operations
* Mechanical Separations
Each 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.
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