Separation Process Principles

The latest principles, processes, and practices


Chemical engineering design is in a constant state of flux. From advances in the practice of separation operations in chemical engineering to corresponding changes in the curriculum, much has happened in the seven years since the publication of Seader and Henley's first edition of Separation Process Principles, including: (1) advances in the fundamentals of mass, heat, and momentum transport, (2) wide availability of computer programs to facilitate the application of mathematical models to a wide range of separation operations, (3) increasing interest in separations involving the solid phase, and (4) changes in the practice of chemical engineering to emphasize product design as well as process design. This second edition reflects these changes.


Highlights of the second edition

• Chapter on crystallization, including thermodynamic and transport aspects, the MSMPR crystallizer model, and treatments of screen analysis, desublimation, and evaporation
• Chapter on drying of solids, including treatments of psychrometry and several dryer mathematical models
• Chapter on leaching of solids, including a discussion of the espresso machine
• Substantial new sections on ultrafiltration and microfiltration, including detailed examples
• Added section on simulated-moving-bed adsorption, including detailed examples
• Expansion of the treatment of batch distillation to include optimal control
• New sections on hybrid systems and membrane cascades
• Now includes 214 examples and 649 homework exercises

Website for students and instructors: www.wiley.com/college/seader

J.D. Seader is Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at the University of Utah.  He received B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.  He has authored or coauthored 110 technical articles, 8 books, and 4 patents, and also coauthored the section on distillation in the 6th and 7th editions of Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook.  In 2004 he received the CACHE Award for Excellence in Chemical Engineering Education from the ASEE; and in 2004, he was a co-recipient of the Warren K. Lewis Award for Chemical Engineering Education of the AICHE.

Ernest J. Henley is Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Houston.  He received his B.S. degree from the University of Delaware and his Dr. Eng. Sci. from Columbia University, where he served as a professor from 1953 to 1959.  He has authored or coauthored 72 technical articles and 12 books, the most recent one being Probabilistic Risk Management for Scientists and Engineers.  In 1998, he received the McGraw-Hill Company Award for "Outstanding Personal Achievement in Chemical Engineering", and in 2002, he received the CACHE Award of the ASEE for "recognition of his contribution to the use of computers in chemical engineering education."  He is President of the Henley Foundation.