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

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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.

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.