www.elsolucionario.net www.elsolucionario.net DK2204_book.fm Page i Monday, October 20, 2008 2:15 PM www.elsolucionario.net ALBRIGHT’S CHEMICAL ENGINEERING HANDBOOK www.elsolucionario.net Half Title Page DK2204_book.fm Page ii Monday, October 20, 2008 2:15 PM www.elsolucionario.net www.elsolucionario.net DK2204_book.fm Page iii Monday, October 20, 2008 2:15 PM www.elsolucionario.net ALBRIGHT’S CHEMICAL ENGINEERING HANDBOOK Edited by Lyle F Albright Purdue University, West Lafayette Indiana, USA Boca Raton London New York CRC Press is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business www.elsolucionario.net Title Page DK2204_book.fm Page iv Monday, October 20, 2008 2:15 PM CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group 6000 Broken Sound Parkway NW, Suite 300 Boca Raton, FL 33487-2742 © 2009 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC CRC Press is an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business No claim to original U.S Government works Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 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Visit the Taylor & Francis Web site at http://www.taylorandfrancis.com and the CRC Press Web site at http://www.crcpress.com 2007020174 www.elsolucionario.net www.elsolucionario.net DK2204_book.fm Page v Monday, October 20, 2008 2:15 PM www.elsolucionario.net Table of Contents Preface ix The Editor xi Contributors xiii Chapter Physical and Chemical Properties Chapter Mathematics in Chemical Engineering 35 Sinh Trinh, Nandkishor Nere, and Doraiswami Ramkrishna Chapter Engineering Statistics .199 Daniel W Siderius Chapter Thermodynamics of Fluid Phase and Chemical Equilibria 255 Kwang-Chu Chao, David S Corti, and Richard G Mallinson Chapter Fluid Flow 393 Ron Darby Chapter Heat Transfer 479 Kenneth J Bell Chapter Radiation Heat Transfer 567 Z M Zhang and David P DeWitt Chapter Mass Transfer 591 James R Fair Chapter Industrial Mixing Technology 615 Douglas E Leng, Sanjeev S Katti, and Victor Atiemo-Obeng Chapter 10 Liquid-Liquid Extraction 709 D William Tedder v www.elsolucionario.net Allan H Harvey DK2204_book.fm Page vi Monday, October 20, 2008 2:15 PM www.elsolucionario.net vi Albright’s Chemical Engineering Handbook Chapter 11 Chemical Reaction Engineering .737 J B Joshi and L K Doraiswamy Chapter 12 Distillation 969 James R Fair Chapter 13 Absorption and Stripping .1073 James R Fair Kent S Knaebel Chapter 15 Process Control .1173 James B Riggs, William J Korchinski, and Arkan Kayihan Chapter 16 Conceptual Process Design, Process Improvement, and Troubleshooting 1267 Donald R Woods, Andrew N Hrymak, and James R Couger Chapter 17 Chemical Process Safety 1437 Richard W Prugh Chapter 18 Environmental Engineering: A Review of Issues, Regulations, and Resources 1485 Bradly P Carpenter, Douglas E Watson, and Brooks C Carpenter Chapter 19 Biochemical Engineering .1501 James M Lee Chapter 20 Measuring Physical Properties .1531 Lyle F Albright Chapter 21 Selecting Materials of Construction (Steels and Other Metals) 1539 David A Hansen Chapter 22 Solid/Liquid Separation 1597 Frank M Tiller, Wenping Li, and Wu Chen Chapter 23 Drying: Principles and Practice .1667 Arun S Mujumdar www.elsolucionario.net Chapter 14 Adsorption 1119 DK2204_book.fm Page vii Monday, October 20, 2008 2:15 PM www.elsolucionario.net Table of Contents vii Chapter 24 Dry Screening of Granular and Powder Materials 1717 A J DeCenso and Nash McCauley Chapter 25 Conveying of Bulk Solids 1729 Fred Thomson Chapter 26 Principles and Applications of Electrochemical Engineering .1737 Peter N Pintauro M Henry Heines Chapter 28 Communication .1841 F S Oreovicz Chapter 29 Ethical Concerns of Engineers .1859 Lyle F Albright Appendix: Conversion Factors 1867 Index 1881 www.elsolucionario.net Chapter 27 Patents and Intellectual Property 1831 DK2204_book.fm Page viii Monday, October 20, 2008 2:15 PM www.elsolucionario.net www.elsolucionario.net ... There are several differently defined diffusion coefficients (self-diffusion coefficient, interdiffusion [or mutual diffusion] coefficient, intradiffusion [or tracer diffusion] coefficient); this... 12 Albright? ??s Chemical Engineering Handbook 1.4.3 ACTIVITY-COEFFICIENT METHODS The use of activity coefficients for phase equilibria is based on writing the fugacity fi of each component in the... additional data references are cited in The Properties of Gases and Liquids [15] 1.5.4 DIFFUSIVITY Diffusion coefficients are important for mass-transfer operations (see Chapter 8, “Mass Transfer”) There