Product Description

The latest principles, processes, and practices


Chemical engineering design is in a constant state of flux. From advances in the practice of separation operations in chemical engineering to corresponding changes in the curriculum, much has happened in the seven years since the publication of Seader and Henley's first edition of Separation Process Principles, including: (1) advances in the fundamentals of mass, heat, and momentum transport, (2) wide availability of computer programs to facilitate the application of mathematical models to a wide range of separation operations, (3) increasing interest in separations involving the solid phase, and (4) changes in the practice of chemical engineering to emphasize product design as well as process design. This second edition reflects these changes.


Highlights of the second edition

• Chapter on crystallization, including thermodynamic and transport aspects, the MSMPR crystallizer model, and treatments of screen analysis, desublimation, and evaporation
• Chapter on drying of solids, including treatments of psychrometry and several dryer mathematical models
• Chapter on leaching of solids, including a discussion of the espresso machine
• Substantial new sections on ultrafiltration and microfiltration, including detailed examples
• Added section on simulated-moving-bed adsorption, including detailed examples
• Expansion of the treatment of batch distillation to include optimal control
• New sections on hybrid systems and membrane cascades
• Now includes 214 examples and 649 homework exercises

Website for students and instructors: www.wiley.com/college/seader

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #453454 in Books
• Published on: 2005-10-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 800 pages

Review
"...an excellent book by two talented and distinguished American academics." -- Chemical Engineering Research, July 2000

From the Publisher
This book examines rate-based and equilibrium-based approaches to separation operations. It describes the fundamentals of all separation operations of commercial interest and includes theory and application examples in each chapter as well as over 600 exercises.

From the Back Cover
The latest principles, processes, and practices

Chemical engineering design is in a constant state of flux. From advances in the practice of separation operations in chemical engineering to corresponding changes in the curriculum, much has happened in the seven years since the publication of Seader and Henley’s first edition of Separation Process Principles, including: (1) advances in the fundamentals of mass, heat, and momentum transport, (2) wide availability of computer programs to facilitate the application of mathematical models to a wide range of separation operations, (3) increasing interest in separations involving the solid phase, and (4) changes in the practice of chemical engineering to emphasize product design as well as process design.  This second edition reflects these changes.

Highlights of the second edition

• Chapter on crystallization, including thermodynamic and transport aspects, the MSMPR crystallizer model, and treatments of screen analysis, desublimation, and evaporation
• Chapter on drying of solids, including treatments of psychrometry and several dryer mathematical models.
• Chapter on leaching of solids, including a discussion of the espresso machine.
• Substantial new sections on ultrafiltration and microfiltration, including detailed examples.
• Added section on simulated-moving-bed adsorption, including detailed examples.
• Expansion of the treatment of batch distillation to include optimal control.
• New sections on hybrid systems and membrane cascades.
• Now includes 214 examples and 649 homework exercises.

Website for students and instructors: href="http://www.wiley.com/college/seader"

“I find this book very useful. I think it is the best among all available chemical separations books for the undergraduate students.” ––Ram B. Gupta, Auburn University

“The Seader and Henley book is strong in that it provides a combination of a pedagogical text book along with a reference text on the subject of mass transfer and separation.” ––Michael E. Prudich, Ohio University

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Customer Reviews

Try Treybal instead
The book is decent for an undergraduate course but there are numerous typos throughout the book and some of the HW problems are poorly written. The poorly written questions gave many of my students problems because the wording is confusing. Treybal is a much better book; unfortunately, it is a bit outdated and does not have all of the latest separations processes included. I will contiue to look for a better book. I will post the name of any other books I come across for those who are interested.

A keeper!
I thouroughly enjoy reading this book. The first chapters set up a framework for separations technologies. The rest of the book adds the important details. The first three chapters provide an excellent review of thermodynamics and mass transfer. In fact, I finally understood fugacity and how to estimate activity from equations of state after reading this book. The authors also incorporate principles of energy conservation not found in similar books. The topics include emmerging technologies in reactive distillation, membranes, and adsporption. Many HW problems are set-up for solution on process simulators. There are several chapters on advanced separations that will make this a valuable resource for lif-long learning. I wish I could have access to the chapters on solids processing - if they are anything like the rest of the book they would be useful. I will _NOT_ sell this book back at the end of the year. It's a keeper!

Aspen heavy
During my final year of undergrad coursework I used this textbook for my design courses. The good thing is Dr. Seader was the professor for my second design course. As a teacher I think he is great with an ability to effectively communicate theory and its practical application without getting caught up in the details. Unfortunately I felt this textbook tries to consolidate the knowledge he has gained in his career resulting in a very dense book. Some problems are solved using direct calculations but a large amount are done using Aspen (a program no one in my class had used) which I felt didn't adequately help develop sequential problem solving skills. The costing analysis theory is good but most of us used Peters & Timerhaus for homework. If you work with Aspen or want a detailed book this will satisfy your desires.