Basic Principles and Calculations in Chemical Engineering/Book and Disk (Prentice-Hall International Series in the Physical and Chemical Engineering Sciences) [Hardcover]

David M. Himmelblau (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1245 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 5 Sub edition (May 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 013066572X
• ISBN-13: 978-0130665720
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.8 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,657,972 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great review text and compilation data, June 8, 2010

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This review is from: Basic Principles and Calculations in Chemical Engineering/Book and Disk (Prentice-Hall International Series in the Physical and Chemical Engineering Sciences) (Hardcover)

I completely disagree with the other reviewer. I used this book for my undergraduate introductory course in chemical engineering. I liked the book at the time, and I liked it even more when I took other chemical engineering courses. The book is very pragmatic in style and very readable compared to many technical books. This book has very complete tables for enthalpies of formation, heat capacities, steam tables, and Antoine equation cooefficients and compressibility. Certainly I have access to much more complete data here at work, but no other textbook I have used contains as much. I used the appendices many times in my junior and senior level courses because the other textbooks were so stingy with data tables. I have used the book to review how to do calculations that I forgot due to using computer packages too much.

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1.0 out of 5 stars This book should only be used as a doorstop!, December 9, 1997

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This review is from: Basic Principles and Calculations in Chemical Engineering/Book and Disk (Prentice-Hall International Series in the Physical and Chemical Engineering Sciences) (Hardcover)

This practically incomprehensible text is by no stretch of the imagination worthy of a rigorous study such as this. The book is riddled with errors (both in context and selected problem solutions) that are not obvious to the beginning student. I would recommend this book to no one.