Chemical Engineering License Review, 2nd ed (Engineering Press at OUP) [Hardcover]

Dilip K. Das P.E. (Author), Rajaram K. Prabhudesai P.E. (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1576450007 | ISBN-13: 978-1576450000 | Publication Date: January 31, 1996 | Edition: 2

Designed to assist students preparing for the PE exam in all 50 states, this review manual includes 146 problems with detailed step-by-step solutions. The book covers all topics on the exam. The introductory chapter reviews the test specifications and the author's recommendation on the best strategy for passing the exam. The first chapter reviews English and SI units and conversions. A complete conversion table is given. Chapter 3 covers heat transfer, conduction, transfer coefficients and heat transfer equipment. Chapter 4 covers evaporation principles, calculations and example problems. Distillation is thoroughly covered in chapter 5. The subsequent chapters review fundamentals of fluid mechanics, hydraulics and typical pump and piping problems: absorption, leaching, liquid-liquid extraction, and the rest of the exam topics. Each of the topics is reviewed followed by examples of examination problems.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 574 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 2 edition (January 31, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1576450007
• ISBN-13: 978-1576450000
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,916,969 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Do Not Buy This Book!, January 25, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Chemical Engineering License Review, 2nd ed (Engineering Press at OUP) (Hardcover)

This definitely is NOT the best book for review for the PE Chemical Engineering Exam. It is strewn with errors in the formulas and sample problems. Because this book is written in a size 12 font with 1-3 inch margins at the sides and bottom, it is a lot longer than it should be. This format should give the reader a sense of accomplishment while studying (Hey, I've done 10 pages already!), but the sample solutions are so time-consuming to work through that a few simple pages can take an hour. The authors dispense with units on most problems and combine several solution steps into one, leaving the reader to retrace every step to figure out where he got lost. On a PE test, you would be penalized for not referencing your starting equation, not carrying and cancelling units, and other sloppy habits and mistakes committed by the authors. Buy Randall Robinson's PE Study Guide instead. It is more straightforward, contains much more reference information, and the author has spent more than a week writing the book!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Book for Chemical Engineers by Chemical Engineers, July 15, 2007

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Vijay M. Apte - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chemical Engineering: License Review (Paperback)

I took Chemical Engineering PE exam in April 2007 for the first time. I passed the exam. When I was solving the problems in the actual exam I knew what I was doing. I was confident that I will pass. The main reason was Chemical Engineering License Review.

License review is written by chemical engineers. This book brushed up my chemical engineering knowledge. Review has addressed all areas in PE exam. But the best covered area is Chemical Reaction Engineering. There are lot of questions on reaction engineering (11%). Problem with kinetics is that we do not use it everyday like fluid dynamics or heat transfer. This book will bring you up to the speed for kinetics problems. Kinetics is the area which will make it or break it.

Review was great help in plant design and operation section. I found this section very useful during actual examination.

Heat transfer chapter has good review of shell and tube exchangers. Fluid dynamics chapter helped me in flow of fluids in pipes and pump calcs most.

License review gives extensive coverage for mass transfer. Absorption and distillation are very important sections and this book prepared me well to solve those questions.

Book had printing mistakes but these mistakes did not deter me from understanding the principles. There are other reference books/solved problems (Chemical Engineering Reference Manual, NCEES problems) available and they are useful too. While studying I kept this book as a main focus and used other reference material also. Study from more than one source is a must. If one starts early enough and balance fundamentals and problem solving properly then passing in the first attempt is not tough.

PE exam tests experience and fundamentals. License Review will clear your fundamentals. It helped me during exam and I am going to keep it as a reference also.

I did not have resort to option elimination. In most of the cases I got the answer and it matched with one of the option. Now I can say my answers were correct (atleast most of them!!!) because I passed the exam.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very effective study aide., June 12, 2008

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Mahesh R. Datla (Houston) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chemical Engineering: License Review (Pe Exam Preparation) (Paperback)

This is an excellent study guide with practical examples. I bought this book and its companion texts. It covers most fo the chemical engineering topics for the exam.

The latest edition (2007) has very few errors. The errors are posted on publisher's website as they are discovered. The reader should ignore any review done on earlier editions.