Principles and Applications of Mass Transfer: The Design of Separation Processes for Chemical and Biochemical Engineering

This textbook teaches the subject of mass transfer fundamentals and their applications to the design of separation processes. The level of presentation of the concepts is easy to follow by the reader, but with enough depth of coverage to guarantee that students using the book will, at the end of the course, be able to specify preliminary designs of the most common separation process equipment.  Reflecting the growth of biochemical applications in the field of chemical engineering, the fourth edition expands biochemical coverage, including transient diffusion, environmental applications, electrophoresis, and bioseparations.  Also new to the fourth edition is the integration of Python programs, a rapidly developing programming environment which is freely available and easily adapted to the very demanding computational needs of separation processes design.  These Python programs complement the Mathcad programs of the previous edition.

On the accompanying instructor's website, the online appendices contain a downloadable library of Python and Mathcad programs for the example problems in each chapter.  A complete solution manual for all end-of-chapter problems, both in Mathcad and Python, is also provided.