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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
An Introduction
“Chemical engineering is the field of applied science that employs physical,
chemical, and biochemical rate processes for the betterment of humanity.” This
opening sentence of Chapter 1 is the underlying paradigm of chemical engineer-
ing. Chemical Engineering: An Introduction is designed to enable the student
to explore the activities in which a modern chemical engineer is involved by
focusing on mass and energy balances in liquid-phase processes. Applications
explored include the design of a feedback level controller, membrane sepa-
ration, hemodialysis, optimal design of a process with chemical reaction and
separation, washout in a bioreactor, ic and mass transfer limits in a two-
phase reactor, and the use of a membrane reactor to e equilibrium limits
on conversion. Mathematics is employed as a language at the most elementary
level. Professor Morton M. Denn incorporates design meaningfully; the design
and analysis problems are realistic in format and scope. Students using this text
will appreciate why they need the courses that follow in the core curriculum.
Morton M. Denn is the Albert Einstein Professor of Science and Engineering
and Director of the Benjamin Levich Institute for Physico-Chemical Hydro-
dynamics at the City College of New York, CUNY. Prior to NY
in 1999, he was Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Cal-
ifornia, Berkeley, where he served as Department Chair, as well as Program
Leader for Polymers and Head of Materials Chemistry in the Materials Sci-
ences Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He previously
taught chemical engineering at the University of Delaware, where he was the
Allan P. Colburn Professor. Professor Denn was Editor of the AIChE Journal
from 1985 to 1991 and Editor of the Journal of Rheology from 1995 to 2005.
He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship; a Fulbright Lectureship; the
Profession