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Properties of Gases and Liquids (McGraw-Hill chemical engineering series)

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I was a bit unconfortable when I bought this book since I was suspicious that this one was one of those unreadable thermodynamic books. Fortunately I was wrong. This book provides you with a complete treatment of the properties of gases and liquids in a plain language stressing the understanding of the basic laws governing the behavior of liquids and gases instead of the mathematic that goes with it. The treatment of the topics is very suitable for engineers since it allows quick understanding of the phenomena and provides a wealth of correlations and methods for estimating properties. The appendixes contain all kind of basic information indeed helpful for applying the correlations showed. Without any hesitation, this book is well worth its price.

Any engineer working on a problem knows the frustration of having all the equations but no physical properties! This book is the answer. The book is primarily written for those working with organic chemicals. Even if you are working in inorganic chemistry, the book is useful. Equations for mixture properties are difficult to use, but, easy to set up on a spread sheet. There are many equations for physical properties based on single points.

The thermodynamic and phase equilibria sections are excellent. I would recommend this book for those sections alone.

If you are a chemical engineer and do not own this text, you will have a hard time. This text covers all physical properties of organic, and some inorganic, gases and liquids. It offers complete theoretical development and practical equations which are amenable to spreadsheets and numerical analysis. Particularly useful is a comparison at the end of every topic showing the accuracy of each method in predicting a property. Presented in tabular form, it allows the reader to choose a method which is sufficient for his/her needs. You may decide to choose a method that is less accurate but easier to program. Every chemical engineer should have this text. My only regret is that we did not have time in undergraduate to use this text. I learned its value from watching the graduate students.

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The book is an absolutely practical treatise of applied thermodymamics. The explanations of how to use property estimation methods are excellent, but invaluable are the comments on their accuracy and recommendations as to when to use which method.

The book served as my operating manual for the ASPEN software for modeling chemical processes. The book documented nearly every method used by ASPEN.

When you need physical property data, and you don't have exact information; this book provides best available estimations of the physical properties. It has been a great help to me, over the years.

Having worked on a piece of an earlier edition, as a grad student at U of Mo - Rolla; where Bruce Poling was a professor, I know how much work it is putting this together for the industries. My hats off to Bruce and his co-authors, and especially to Nanci, his wife, for doing yoman's work on this 5th edition of a classic!

This is a dense book, necessary to every one who handles with fluid and its transformations, like technicians, process engineers, fluid flow measurement guys, etc., who needs information about very equation of states and when using each one, estimating some physical properties, etc.

you often resolve equations and optimize systems in variables... well this is the book that puts numbers to those variables, so you can start talking about how much.

if you are a serious chemical engineer, you will buy this.

Excellent resource for calculating physical properties when only limited information is available. This edition has more correlations and models than the 4th edition. If you use this resource regularly I would recommend the upgrade to the 5th edition.

For any Chemical, Industrial or even mechanical Engineer, this text is simply an indispensable tool and continuous source of consult. Through my professional performance, this book is like an inestimable partner, where we may be sure of getting adequate and properly all my requested issues about all the properties of gases and liquids.

As a matter if fact, disciplines such as Thermodynamics, Principles of Chemical engineering, Mass or Heat transfer, Unit Operations or Fluid mechanics will never do without of this fundamental text of wide repercussion.

Don't miss it.

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