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Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering

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I work in the chemical operations sector. I will highly recommend this book for 3rd or 4rth year future chemical engineers. It contains viable information on many units that they will just have to know about. However, I will not recommend it for working operation engineers. It is too general for us, it doesn't problem shoot units such as pumps and compressors. I don't think that I have much use for this book, specially that I own the Perry's Handbook.

Warning: This is not a textbook. Basically, they took out some of the stuff from Perry's and rewrote it more carefully and filled in some of the details. In general, this book is hard to read, missing important things, and burdened with unimportant things. It really does no justice to the quality and quantity of amazing insight inside the head of Peter Harriott (from whom I've taken classes). I can't deny that it makes an awesome reference book, but woe to any class that depends on this book.

Some prior reviewers are mistaken about this book being an annotation of Perry or of little value. The "unit operations" are the framework of chemical engineering. McCabe and Smith was the definitive work on unit operations when I was a student in the 1960's. Updated and with additional authors, it still is.

If you only keep one ChE book from school this should be it. Along with Perry's, this is a must have for any ChE in downstream or chemical operations.

Wow! the book is completely new and wrapped. I saw the same book today at school and costed $140, great service and price!

I received my book in great shape sooner that I expected it. Another example of a business that is planning on staying in business. Kudos

I'm from Brazil and here there aren't to many books of unit operations in portuguese. This is a great book because it is easy-reading, full of industrial equipment description and exemples.

This was the best purchase I have ever done in my undergrad experience so far.

not happy with this book as there were chapters missing from it 2 to be exact. I sent it back to the seller> The capters were repeated with the previous chapters from earlier on in the book.

Exactly what I always wanted a 7th edition Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering Book!! Perfect Condition and everything!

it is the best books i have ever read in my semester ofchemical engineering. the topic i like the most, is transportation offluids .this book is recommended by my professor. the matter of turbulent flow and laminar flow is just fantastic.

thank you!