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"If you're buying this, you're a chemical engineering student and this is on your mandatory buy list. It's definitely not going to be a solid conversation piece or one of those books you read on a grassy knoll while contemplating life with that cute coed. No, get your butt back in the library and get to studying, you a chemical engineer.
Choice A: Run, go do something else, enjoy college
Choice B: Buy this, it's the transport phenomena bible of chemical engineering.
Seriously, this is a great book for fluid flow (momentum transfer), mass transfer, heat transfer. Bad book for life transfer"
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Transport Phenomena R Byron Bird Warren E Stewart Edwin N Lightfoot 9781118078815 Books Reviews :
Transport Phenomena R Byron Bird Warren E Stewart Edwin N Lightfoot 9781118078815 Books Reviews
- If you're buying this, you're a chemical engineering student and this is on your mandatory buy list. It's definitely not going to be a solid conversation piece or one of those books you read on a grassy knoll while contemplating life with that cute coed. No, get your butt back in the library and get to studying, you a chemical engineer.
Choice A Run, go do something else, enjoy college
Choice B Buy this, it's the transport phenomena bible of chemical engineering.
Seriously, this is a great book for fluid flow (momentum transfer), mass transfer, heat transfer. Bad book for life transfer - Aside from the logical and mathematical sciences, there are three branches of natural science which stand apart by reason of the variety of far-reaching deductions drawn from a small number of primary postulates. These are mechanics, electromagnetics, and thermodynamics -- the "engineering sciences".
When "BSL 1960" was first published, the authors expressed their belief that transport phenomena should be recognized as one of the engineering sciences. Now 60 years later, this belief has been justified. This is the reason that the appearance in 1960 of BSL is significant for the chemical engineering profession. Civil Engineering have "mechanics", Mechanical Engineering have "thermodynamics", and Electrical Engineering have "electromagnetics". Transport phenomena, with or without chemical reactions, is what distinguishes Chemical Engineering from the other engineering professions. - Most chemical engineers grew up with BSL. For myself, I found out what the graduate students were using. The old red-back version was intimidating. It was hard to use. The calculus was, and is, generally over my head. But... after reading through a few problems, the mathematics seemed familiar, the approach seemed to explain all my questions and the solution was, if not directly applicable, one that I could borrow for a difficult problem.
I remember once working on a product development for Andrew Jergens. My goal was to estimate the production capacity of a stepwise batch process. Others would ultimately use my numbers to estimate the price of the product. I had to get it right! One step involved melting this wax, a synthetic whale wax, over an electric heater. I knew the BTU output but there were several physical constraints. After a few sleepless nights and pawing through the University of Cincinnati library I was stumped. Then, I started looking through BSL.Oui la! There is a problem on de-frosting turkeys ¯ a real life practical application of heat transfer; supposedly, this is how Birdseye came up with the table you see on the outside of turkey wrappings on Thanksgiving.
It did not take me long to see the application. I spent a morning doing lab experiments for my physical properties and the afternoon fitting the measurements to their procedure. The method worked.
The second edition has much better graphics and a good index. The index and table of contents in the first edition made the book unwieldy.
I recently became interested in calculating the heat-up time in a hydrolysis bed. One of the crucial problems was calculating h', the volumetric heat transfer coefficient (BTU/hr-cubic feet-F h X l). There is an excellent method developed by Shumann in another great book Kern's "Process Heat Transfer." BSL presents a method for estimating h that can be transformed into h' by
h' = h X Ac/V, where Ac=cross area; V=volume of bed. With the old version, finding this section of the book was very time consuming. The second edition made it easy.
There is one downside of the 2nd edition. To make it easier to read, the publisher increased its length and width. Unfortunately, as experience has born out, this tends to make a book more prone to shearing along its binding. I intent to wrap this book in heavy plastic to add some reinforcement. I suggest you do likewise.
I will keep you posted as I continue to use this book. I may give my old red-back to some younger engineer ---to knaw on the edges before they ask me for the answer. - Libro de contenido muy bueno, novedoso es el complemento de enseñanza y aprendizaje práctico. Muy bueno excelente presentación. Libros de este tema y asà de buenos pocos
- This is arguably the greatest textbook for chemical engineering ever written. Its influence in the chemical engineering world cannot be understated. If you are unconvinced, look at the bibliography of any other chemical engineering textbook. It most likely has a reference to this one. So if you want to be a chemical engineer, you should know how to apply the approaches to problem solving in this book. That being said, this isn't an easy book to understand. It's easier than some, but it is very rigorous. It also uses some relatively advanced math. Solving Partial Differential Equations is expected in this book, so it is only suitable for an advanced undergraduate or early graduate student. For an even more advanced book, check out Deen's Analysis of Transport Phenomena.
- Great book on mass transfer. Saved me many times in the course I took with it. Explains things very well, good examples. This is a little outdated in some of the methods (uses Einstein's relationship for all liquid diffusivity temperature relationships instead of using empirical correlations)
- Wasn't able to use any information the book to help me with my class. There is no scaling analysis done in it
- Nice packaging! And this is a must read for basic chemical engineering knowledge.
