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This book is written with second year chemical engineering undergraduate students in mind. Chemical engineering undergraduate students are generally taught Equilibrium Stage Operations in their second year. This is the first time they are introduced to equilibrium stage based separation processes. Their background at this stage is quite limited. The goal is to present the equilibrium stage concepts and operations in a manner comprehensible to second year chemical engineering students with little or no prior exposure to separation processes.
The book consists of sixteen chapters. It covers single-stage and multi-stage absorption and stripping, flash distillation, multi-stage column distillation, batch distillation with and without reflux, liquid-liquid extrac- tion, and solid-liquid leaching. Although the book is focussed on equilibrium staged separation processes, the final chapter (chapter 16) is devoted to the analysis and design of continuous contacting packed col- umns as packed columns are becoming increasingly important in practical applications.
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About the author
Rajinder Pal is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Waterloo since 1991, and a Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada. He received degrees in Chemical Engineer- ing from I.I.T. Kanpur (B.Tech. 1981) and the University of Waterloo (Ph.D. 1987), followed by a post- doctoral fellowship at the University of Alberta. His research interests include complex fluid rheology, interfacial and transport phenomena, physical properties of composite materials, and non-equilibrium ther- modynamics. He has published close to 150 refereed journal articles, 2 books, and 5 book chapters on these and related subjects, including 6 papers in engineering education journals. He has taught over ten different undergraduate and graduate courses related to equilibrium staged separation processes, fluid me- chanics, heat and mass transfer, physical chemistry and thermodynamics.
Professor Pal has been the recipient of several awards including the Sandford Fleming Foundation Teach- ing Excellence Award (twice), an Outstanding Performance Award from the University of Waterloo, and the Syncrude Canada Innovation Award from the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering. He serves on several journal editorial boards, and was an Associate Editor of the Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering for twelve years. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the province of Ontario, Canada.
