Diffusional Mass Transfer [Hardcover]

A. H. P. Skelland (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 510 pages
• Publisher: Krieger Pub Co; 2nd edition (June 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0898747929
• ISBN-13: 978-0898747928
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,684,085 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Advanced, detailed, authoritative, but not easy, September 21, 2001

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Rainer Gruber (Aachen, Germany) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Diffusional Mass Transfer (Hardcover)

If you have ever felt annoyed at the imprecision with which other authors treat the concepts of mass transfer, then this book is recommended reading. For example, few authors treat the issue of averageing mass transfer coefficients (local, arithmetic mean, log-mean) with such care - in fact most authors simply ignore this issue altogether. I find this degree of detail more conducive to understanding than the tacit omissions in other books. The price to pay is of course complexity and this book requires a sound priming in mass transfer.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good reference for advanced studies, June 25, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Diffusional Mass Transfer (Hardcover)

Excellent review of fundamental laminar and turbulent mass transfer. Parts of the book are not suited for undergraduate study.

4.0 out of 5 stars Precise and clear, but at a high level, June 16, 2004

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Scott A. Gold "scottagold" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Diffusional Mass Transfer (Hardcover)

I found this text be be very precise and clearly written. The greatest advantage it has over other texts on the subject is in the precision and clarity of the definitions. The focus is more toward fundamentals than applications however and is written at a high level. While this is an older book and consequently nothing in the way of new advancements in the field, all the seminal works on mass tranport are in the references. There are better texts out there for an undergraduate course (Welty et al. for example), however for a graduate level course, or for someone wanting a deeper understanding of the fundamental science, this book is outstanding. (I too had the author's class several years ago and learned much from it!)