Unit operations of chemical engineering (McGraw-Hill chemical engineering series) [Hardcover]

Warren L McCabe (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0070448256 | ISBN-13: 978-0070448254 | Publication Date: 1976 | Edition: 3rd

* The most comprehensive of all current chemical engineering texts on unit operations; covers fluid mechanics, heat transfer, mass transfer, and solids handling
* Contains a balanced treatment of theory and engineering practice, with many practical illustrative examples included
* Includes a mass transfer section containing chapters on absorption and membrane operations--topics not often covered in unit operations textbooks

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 1028 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 3rd edition (1976)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0070448256
• ISBN-13: 978-0070448254
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.6 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,454,893 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good for students yet too general for professionals, April 29, 1999

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This review is from: Unit Operations In Chemical Engineering (Hardcover)

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.

14 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars This book is an annotated index to Perry's, March 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Unit Operations In Chemical Engineering (Hardcover)

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.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Chemical Engineering Classic, September 6, 2006

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James R. Hunt "Rolfe" (Bainbridge, GA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering (Hardcover)

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.