Master the calculations that make chemical processes work.
Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes Handbook is a practical, step-by-step guide for students and developing engineers who want to understand chemical process calculations with clarity, confidence, and real problem-solving skill.
Rather than simply presenting formulas, this handbook shows you how to think through a process problem, choose the right equations, perform the calculations correctly, and verify that the final answer makes physical sense.
Inside, you’ll learn how to:
- Work confidently with engineering units, process variables, and stream compositions.
- Solve material balances for single-unit, multiunit, recycle, purge, and bypass systems.
- Handle reaction stoichiometry, conversion, yield, selectivity, and extent of reaction.
- Analyze phase behavior, vapor–liquid equilibrium, flash calculations, gas mixtures, and humidity.
- Apply energy balances to heating, cooling, phase change, combustion, and reacting systems.
- Solve coupled material-and-energy balances and transient process problems.
- Use residual checks, degrees of freedom, sensitivity analysis, and systematic workflows to verify solutions.
- Reinforce every major concept through worked examples, equations, practice problems, and engineering interpretation.
Written in a clear, structured style, this handbook bridges the gap between classroom theory and the disciplined calculation methods used in chemical engineering.
Whether you are preparing for coursework, strengthening your fundamentals, or building a dependable reference for future engineering study, this book gives you the tools to solve process problems with greater accuracy and confidence.
Build your chemical-process foundation the right way—buy your copy now and start reading today.