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Klappentext Felder's ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES OF CHEMICAL PROCESSES prepares students to formulate and solve material and energy balances in chemical process systems and lays the foundation for subsequent courses in chemical engineering. The text provides a realistic, informative, and positive introduction to the practice of chemical engineering. Zusammenfassung * This best selling text prepares students to formulate and solve material and energy balances in chemical process systems and lays the foundation for subsequent courses in chemical engineering. * The text provides a realistic! informative! and positive introduction to the practice of chemical engineering. Inhaltsverzeichnis About the Authors iii Preface to the Fourth Edition iv Notes to Instructors v Digital Resources and WileyPLUS vi Postscript: Introduction to an Author vii Nomenclature viii Glossary of Chemical Process Terms x PART 1 Engineering Problem Analysis 1 CHAPTER 1 What Some Chemical Engineers Do for a Living 3 CHAPTER 2 Introduction to Engineering Calculations 5 2.0 Learning Objectives 5 2.1 Units and Dimensions 6 2.2 Conversion of Units 7 2.3 Systems of Units 8 2.4 Force and Weight 10 2.5 Numerical Calculation and Estimation 12 2.6 Dimensional Homogeneity and Dimensionless Quantities 19 2.7 Process Data Representation and Analysis 21 2.8 Summary 30 Problems 30 CHAPTER 3 Processes and Process Variables 35 3.0 Learning Objectives 35 3.1 Mass and Volume 36 3.2 Flow Rate 38 3.3 Chemical Composition 40 3.4 Pressure 47 3.5 Temperature 54 3.6 Summary 57 Problems 58 PART 2 Material Balances 67 CHAPTER 4 Fundamentals of Material Balances 69 4.0 Learning Objectives 69 4.1 Process Classification 70 4.2 Balances 71 4.3 Material Balance Calculations 75 4.4 Balances on Multiple-Unit Processes 94 4.5 Recycle and Bypass 100 4.6 Chemical Reaction Stoichiometry 107 4.7 Balances on Reactive Processes 118 4.8 Combustion Reactions 139 4.9 Some Additional Considerations about Chemical Processes 147 4.10 Summary 150 Problems 151 CHAPTER 5 Single-Phase Systems 160 5.0 Learning Objectives 161 5.1 Liquid and Solid Densities 162 5.2 Ideal Gases 164 5.3 Equations of State for Nonideal Gases 172 5.4 The Compressibility-Factor Equation of State 179 5.5 Summary 186 Problems 186 CHAPTER 6 Multiphase Systems 195 6.0 Learning Objectives 197 6.1 Single-Component Phase Equilibrium 198 6.2 The Gibbs Phase Rule 204 6.3 Gas-Liquid Systems: One Condensable Component 206 6.4 Multicomponent Gas-Liquid Systems 212 6.5 Solutions of Solids in Liquids 221 6.6 Equilibrium between Two Liquid Phases 229 6.7 Adsorption on Solid Surfaces 233 6.8 Summary 236 Problems 238 PART 3 Energy Balances 253 CHAPTER 7 Energy and Energy Balances 255 7.0 Learning Objectives 256 7.1 Forms of Energy: The First Law of Thermodynamics 257 7.2 Kinetic and Potential Energy 259 7.3 Energy Balances on Closed Systems 260 7.4 Energy Balances on Open Systems at Steady State 262 7.5 Tables of Thermodynamic Data 267 7.6 Energy Balance Procedures 272 7.7 Mechanical Energy Balances 275 7.8 Summary 280 Problems 282 CHAPTER 8 Balances on Nonreactive Processes 291 8.0 Learning Objectives 291 8.1 Elements of Energy Balance Calculations 292 8.2 Changes in Pressure at Constant Temperature 300 8.3 Changes in Temperature 301 8.4 Phase-Change Operations 313 8....
