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Chemical and Process Thermodynamics (3rd Edition)by Benjamin Kyle
Hardcover: 763 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.33 x 9.54 x 7.28
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; ; 3rd edition (October 12, 1999)
ISBN: 0130874116
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From Book News, Inc.: A text/CD-ROM package on chemical engineering thermodynamics, focusing on current techniques, new applications, and today's revolutionary computerized tools. Coverage includes laws of thermodynamics, fluid behavior, phase equilibrium, and thermodynamic analysis of processes, with worked examples and problems. The CD-ROM contains programs and spreadsheets for carrying out professional-level calculations, a general purpose numerical analysis program, and a graphics program, plus supplemental text on entropy. This third edition offers treatment of complex chemical equilibria, and contains a new chapter on the philosophy and practice of modeling thermodynamic systems.
Book Info: Presents an example-rich guide to chemical engineering thermodynamics focusing on current techniques, new applications, and today's computerized tools. Reveals the how and why of chemical engineering thermodynamics, to dramatically improve problem-solving effectiveness. CD-ROM included. DLC Thermodynamics.
The publisher, Prentice-Hall ECS Professional: This book/disk package explains the rationale of thermodynamics from an experimental perspective.
From the Back Cover
The first chemical engineering thermodynamics text for the computer age.
Chemical and Process Thermodynamics, Third Edition is an example-rich guide to chemical engineering thermodynamics that focuses on current techniques, new applications, and today's revolutionary computerized tools. You'll discover both the "how" and "why" of chemical engineering thermodynamics, and dramatically improve your problem-solving effectiveness with an extensive collection of sophisticated PC software. In this book/CD-ROM package, the software isn't just a useful adjunct: its use is thoroughly integrated into the text and amply illustrated with worked examples.
Coverage includes:
• The 1st and 2nd Laws of Thermodynamics
• Fluid behavior and thermodynamic networks
• Heat effects, equilibrium and stability
• Phase equilibrium
• Chemical equilibrium
• Thermodynamic analysis of processes, physicomechanical processes and more
This brand-new Third Edition reflects newly-developed techniques and applications, includes a thorough treatment of complex chemical equilibria, and contains an entirely new chapter on the philosophy and practice of modeling thermodynamic systems. With many examples and over 500 problems, Chemical and Process Thermodynamics, Third Edition is the text of choice for professional chemical engineers, graduate and undergraduate students alike.
CD-ROM INCLUDED: The companion CD-ROM contains nine executable programs and three spreadsheets for carrying out professional-level calculations; POLYMATH numerical analysis software; EQUATIONS OF STATE software for visualizing thermodynamic processes on 3D PVT diagrams; supplemented text on statistical entropy; and more.
About the Author: BENJAMIN G. KYLE is Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering at Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas.
Customer Reviews
Solid thermo book w/ some application, July 19, 2001
Reviewer: california_cheme from Pomona, CA United States
This book is well written and explains thermo science in detail. Not only does this book teach the theory; it teaches how to apply the theory in the design of real chemical systems. This book is tough sleding...although not as tough as Sandler's book on thermo, which is also, in my opinion, and better book.
My only real dislike of this book is the formating...I read this book for long hours at a time in my thermo class (it was one of three books required for the course) and I must say the text and page layout of the book really bothered me.