This concise book is a broad and highly motivational introduction for first-year engineering students to the exciting of field of chemical engineering. The material in the text is meant to precede the traditional second-year topics. It provides students with, 1) materials to assist them in deciding whether to major in chemical engineering; and 2) help for future chemical engineering majors to recognize in later courses the connections between advanced topics and relationships to the whole discipline. This text, or portions of it, may be useful for the chemical engineering portion of a broader freshman level introduction to engineering course that examines multiple engineering fields.
CHAPTER 1 What Is Chemical Engineering? CHAPTER 2 The Role of Chemical Processing
CHAPTER 3 Solving Engineering Problems (What Shall We Do?)
CHAPTER 4 Describing Physical Quantities
CHAPTER 5 Material Balances (How Much Base Do We Need?)
CHAPTER 6 Spreadsheets (Calculating the Cost of the Base)
CHAPTER 7 Fluid Flow (Bringing the Base to the Acid)
CHAPTER 8 Mass Transfer (Mixing the Acid and the Base)
CHAPTER 9 Reaction Engineering (What Size Reactor?)
CHAPTER 10 Heat Transfer (Cooling Down the Product)
CHAPTER 11 Materials (An Important Equipment Feature)
CHAPTER 12 Controlling the Process
CHAPTER 13 Economics (Is It All Worth ItT?)
CHAPTER 14 Case Studies (Integrating It All Together)
