 | Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes by Ronald W. Rousseau
Buy used from: $36.77 Read it and you will fall in love with ChE.
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 | Physical Chemistry by Ira N Levine
Buy new: $154.49 / Used from: $13.85 This is what physical chemistry really is!
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 | Physical Chemistry by Robert J. Silbey
Buy new: $126.82 / Used from: $61.27 Good, but not as much as Levine's book.
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 | Fundamentals of Analytical Chemistry (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac ) by Douglas A. Skoog
Buy new: $175.86 / Used from: $80.00 Probably not the best, but certainly a good introduction.
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 | Introduction to Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics by J. M. Smith
Buy used from: $26.20 Forget about the rest. This is the simply the best.
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 | Transport Phenomena, 2nd Edition by R. Byron Bird
Buy used from: $39.92 I shouldn't make any comments... Let us say that it's the right book to read when you are feeling very clever: after 2 min reading you will feel very humble.
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 | Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer, 5th Edition by Frank P. Incropera
Buy used from: $21.76 Good engineering approach to heat transfer, but not enough for mass transfer. For mass transfer, will you have to read Bird's book.
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 | Separation Process Principles by J. D. Seader
Buy used from: $14.95 Very good for distillation, extraction and absorption, but you will need something else for membrane processes.
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 | The Properties of Gases and Liquids by Bruce E. Poling
Buy new: $87.07 / Used from: $60.00 A classical for estimating or correlating data, and for understanding methods used in process simulators like ASPEN.
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 | Chemical Reactor Analysis and Design (Wiley Series in Chemical Engineering) by Gilbert F. Froment
Buy new: $131.79 / Used from: $87.51 The book. Note that if you are of the Levenspiel type then this is not the book for you! You have to decide between fancy drawings (Levenspiel) and real chemical reaction engineering.
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 | Process Dynamics and Control by Dale E. Seborg
Buy new: $123.36 / Used from: $72.00 A good starting point for understanding (not reading and forgeting) process dynamics and control.
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 | Plantwide Process Control by William L. Luyben
A necessary complement to Seborg's book, not an alternative. Among other things, it teaches you how to choose the controlled and manipulated variables for various equipments found in plants.
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 | Optimization of Chemical Processes by Thomas F. Edgar
Buy used from: $36.99 I have the first edition, which I like a lot.
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 | Product and Process Design Principles: Synthesis, Analysis, and Evaluation by Warren D. Seider
Buy new: $109.79 / Used from: $27.00 A good book for process design and simulation.
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 | Chemical Process Equipment, Second Edition: Selection and Design by James R. Couper
Buy new: $140.69 / Used from: $208.17 In my opinion, this is the best book on equipment design and selection ever written (I have the 1990 ed.). It is surprising that this outstanding text has not become as famous as Perrys (which I dont really like by the way).
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 | Rules of Thumb for Chemical Engineers, Fourth Edition by Carl R. Branan
Buy new: $102.34 / Used from: $108.68 A very good reference for process design. There is a problem though (at least in the 3rd ed.): US units are used throughout the text
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 | Plant Design and Economics for Chemical Engineers by Max Peters
Buy new: $142.29 / Used from: $100.95 I just know the 4th edition. You cannot be a chemical engineer if you never needed this book.
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 | Applied Statistics and Probability for Engineers by Douglas C. Montgomery
Buy used from: $7.95 I use it every day!
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 | Mathematical Methods of Physics and Engineering by K. F. Riley
Buy used from: $38.30 Quite useful reference.
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 | FORTRAN 90 for Engineers and Scientists by Larry Nyhoff
Buy new: $86.04 / Used from: $13.99 A good book for learning FORTRAN, the most used language in ChE. For pointers will will need something else.
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 | Dictionary of Chemistry (Hutchinson pocket series)
Buy used from: $8.75 Quite useful!
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