Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes (Felder and Rousseau, 3rd Ed.)

Chapter 1: What Some Chemical Engineers Do for A Living

(chemical engineers, occupations, processes, products)

Chapter 2: Introduction to Engineering Calculations

(units, conversions, significant figures, dimensional homogeneity, statistics)

Chapter 3: Process and Process Variables

(mass, flow rate, composition, pressure, temperature)

Chapter 4: Fundamentals of Material Balances

(material balances, processes, multiple-unit processes, recycle, bypass, reactions)

Chapter 5: Single-Phase Systems

(liquids, gases, solids, ideal gas law, virial equations of state, compressibility factor)

Chapter 6: Multi-phase Systems

(phase equilibrium, Gibb's phase rule, Raoult's law, Henry's law, adsorption)

Chapter 7: Energy and Energy Balances

(mechanical energy balance, Bernoulli's equation, systems, energy balances)

Chapter 8: Balances on Non-reactive Processes

(reference states, enthalpy, internal energy, heat capacity, humidity charts)

Chapter 9: Balances on Reactive Processes

(heat of formation, heat of reaction, heat of combustion)

Chapter 10: Computer-aided Balance Calculations

(degree of freedom analysis, simulations)

Chapter 11: Balances on Transient Processes

(changes with time, transient processes)


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