Chemical Engineering Reference Manual for the PE Exam [Hardcover]

Randall N. Robinson (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 408 pages
• Publisher: Professional Publications, Inc.; 5th edition (January 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0912045922
• ISBN-13: 978-0912045924
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,225,485 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good only for the sample problems, September 21, 1997

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[e-mail] (Austin, Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chemical Engineering Reference Manual for the PE Exam (Hardcover)

This is not a good book to learn chemical engineering from, nor is it particularly good as a review of engineering for the practicing engineer. If you are planning to take the Professional Engineering examination in chemical engineering and you have good chemical engineering books from your college days, I would encourage you to use the old books to review the fundamentals.

Where this book comes in useful is in the many problems it gives at the end of each chapter. I found working these problems to be the best preparation for the exam. If you buy this book, I would suggest you to also buy the solutions manual for the problems. This manual is also available from Amazon.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Virtually the only resource I used, August 8, 2002

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"jwhohman" (Pittsburgh, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chemical Engineering Reference Manual for the PE Exam (Hardcover)

I found this book to be extremely helpful both in preparation for and in taking the Chemical Engineering PE examination. While the practice problems are a good review, I thought they tended be more difficult than the actual test. Additionally, the book covers all the high points that are on the exam. The layout is excellent and with a little familiarity (and some page tabs) I was able to find every reference I needed in very little time during the test.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very straight forward manual, problems could be better, January 23, 2003

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Erik L. Koski (Bakersfield, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chemical Engineering Reference Manual for the PE Exam (Hardcover)

I am currently using this book to review for the PE exam. The main chapter material is wonderful and very straight forward. I wish I had this book when I was in school. Several reference tables and figures are great for making quick work of routine problems and problems a young engineer like myself normally solves with a computer. The main downside is the end of chapter problems. If you're reviewing for the PE, you MUST buy the solutions manual to make the questions worth while. Some of the problems aren't stated clearly and you'll need the manual to clarify what is being asked for. It is common for problems to use ambigous units such as psi (instead of psia or psig) and unit in terms of other variables (per cubic foot of bed, or per pound formula weight). When you do get the solutions manual, the problems are solved without units. This is difficult on problems with mixed english/SI units (but a good review). Dispite the difficulty with the problems, this is the best of the review manual in my opinion and I wouldn't want to go into the exam without it.