B a OPERATIONS ~ George Granger Brown Alan Savers Foust ipnheia Taverne eats Anker Gon netiey ane Bit ger Sige AN ae Ss Viney a We if Georg? Martin Brown 3 Peviea crawnet as accepn a Marin Pierce Grice: Vitae - eS reas Berarers desea Inula york Twelve leading authorities present a comprehensive treatment of modern process operations-stressing Puree e-Lelsgael ttle basic principles.ital Unit Operations George Granger Brown [BUWAND DEMILL2 CAMPNELL URIVAASITY PROVESSOM OF CHRMICAL ENGINEERING [AND DEAN OF THE COLEOE OF ENGINEERING, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Alan Shivers Foust ‘PROFRAGOR OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, UE ‘Yinatre OP MICHIGAN Donald LaVerne Katz ‘AND METALLOMGICAL ENOINERIUNG, UNIVER” ‘irr oF micarcan Richard Schneidewind ‘AQVESSOR OF METALLURGICAL ENCINEER- ING, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Robert Roy White PAOFESSOM OF CHEMICAL RNGINEBRING, UNI- VERSITY OF MICHIOAN William Piatt Wood PROPESEON OF METALLUAGICAL ENGINEER ING, UNIVERSHTY OF MECAIOAN George Martin Brown. ‘ASSOCIATE PROFESGOR OF CHUMICAL BNOI- NRURING, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, Loyd Earl Brownell 'ABOCIATE PROFESSOR OF CEMICAT. ERG [REDWING UNIVEKSITY OF MICHIGAN Joseph J. Martin. ABEOCIATE PROFESSOM OF CHEMICAL ENGI George Brymer Williams ASSOUATE FROFESGOR OP CHEMICAL uNGI Julius Thomas Banchero ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF CHEMICAL. ENGI- Jesse Louls York AMROCIATE PROVESSOR OF CHEMICAL EXGINEERING, ‘UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN cBs CBS PUBLISHERS & DISTRIBUTORS 4596/1A, 11 DARYAGANJ NEW DELHI - 110 002‘This textbook i the first to earry the title Unit Operations, but it is not the fist to treat the subject. Modern practice and equipment. aro emphasized as well as mathemutical inter- pretations, as only by properly designed, construeted, and operated equipment can ‘mathematical treatment yield useful results, The object: is to build the student's Knowledge and power progressively and continuously until he has @ reasonably clear concept of how to approach the problems of design and operation of processing equipment. The unit operations are grouped according to similarities in action or in mothods of calculation and presented in sequence according to incressing diff- culty. By grouping similar operations and using a common nomenclature in similar theoretical discussions, we find that the student makes more rapid progress, less effort is required to master nomenclature, and a better understanding is gained of the relationships among the different unit operations, ‘The association and com. parison of similar operations from different industrial processes is the essence of unit operations and the major factor in developing chemical, metallurgical, or process engineers capable of successfully designing new plants for conducting new processes. ‘The full advantage of the study of unit operations can be realized only if the unit operations are themselves associated and compared go the engineer may more skilfully select the most suitable operation and equipment desired for each step in the process. The tendency of the specialist to treat each unit operation a3 ‘a specialty having its own peculiar result, rationalisation, and nomenclature is of ‘questionable value in any sustained educational effort and is to be resisted by all means in an undergraduate curriculum. ‘The arrangement in order of increasing difficulty rather than in order of assumed importance continually presents new advanced intriguing problems to the student, maintains his interest, and encourages him to continue his own development, beyond the limitations of the book. ‘The treatment of those operations covering solids in Part I requires little moro preparation than is ordinarily given in high school, whereas the treatment of mass transfer in Part IV is suitable for » post- graduate course and is presented with a critical attitude tending to develop the research point of view, “The inductive method is generally followed, relying upon observations from ‘experience rather than upon deductive rationalizations. ‘This method is a powerful tool of the practicing engineer and has been found most satisfactory for under- graduate students. However, kinetic explanations are not neglected and receive increasing emphasis in the last part on energy and mess transfer as an important ‘meuns to a thorough understanding of the mechanisms involved. Physics, calculus, and a beginning course in material and energy balances, or thermodynamics, are assumed as prerequisites to unit operations. Even with this background the student may be confused regarding dimensions and energy balances, and these subjects are treated rather fully. It is hoped that all chapters have a