Separation Process Engineering, Third Edition, is the most comprehensive, accessible text available on modern separation processes and the fundamentals of mass transfer. Phillip C. Wankat teaches each key concept through detailed, realistic examples using real data-including up-to-date simulation practice and new spreadsheet-based exercises.
Table of Contents * Chapter 1: Introduction to Separation Process Engineering * Chapter 2: Flash Distillation * Chapter 3: Introduction to Column Distillation * Chapter 4: Column Distillation: Internal Stage-by-Stage Balances * Chapter 5: Introduction to Multicomponent Distillation * Chapter 6: Exact Calculation Procedures for Multicomponent Distillation * Chapter 7: Approximate Shortcut Methods for Multicomponent Distillation * Chapter 8: Introduction to Complex Distillation Methods * Chapter 9: Batch Distillation * Chapter 10: Staged and Packed Column Design * Chapter 11: Economics and Energy Conservation in Distillation * Chapter 12: Absorption and Stripping * Chapter 13: Liquid-Liquid Extraction * Chapter 14: Washing, Leachingand Supercritical Extraction * Chapter 15: Introduction to Diffusion and Mass Transfer * Chapter 16: Mass Transfer Analysis for Distillation, Absorption, Stripping and Extraction * Chapter 17: Introduction to Membrane Separation Processes * Chapter 18: Introduction to Adsorption, Chromatographyand Ion Exchange * Appendix A: Aspen Plus Troubleshooting Guide for Separations * Appendix B: Instructions for Fitting VLE and LLE Data with Aspen Plus * Appendix C: Unit Conversions and Physical Constants * Appendix D:Data Locations * Answers to Selected Problems
