S. Skogestad
Chemical and Energy Process Engineering
CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group), 2009 (Published August 2008)
Written in an easy to read, pedagogical style, this textbook is intended for introductory
process engineering couses for chemical, mechanical and petroleum engineers,
but it has intentionally designed to be useful to practicing engineers.
The author, a systems engineering and control systems expert, approaches the introductory material in a fundamental way. He provides a thorough grounding in basic mass and energy balances.
He also highlights the important and timely areas of energy process engineering and exergy analysis (energy efficiency). The book has been classroom tested for almost 10 years and has received very good feedback from students.
Some highlights
- Numerous worked examples makes the book very readable
- Extensive introduction to use of numbers and units
- Bonus chapters on
- Exergy analysis
- Mechanical energy balances
- Chemical reaction engineering
- Process dynamics
- Contains appendices with additional information on
- thermodynamics and physical chemistry,
- entropy and equilibrium,
- differential balances
- A solutions manual is available and additional problems are posted on the web for instructors.
Primary market
- Introductory course in material and energy balances for chemical engineers
- Practicing process engineers in the chemical, petrochemical and oil & gas industries
Secondary market
- Process engineering course for petroleum engineers
- Process engineering course for mechanical engineers
- Process engineering course for energy and environmental engineers
- Process engineering course for industrial ecology
Competition:
Compared to the competing book by Felder and Rosseau, the emphasis is more towards
fundamentals and energy engineering.
One reason for writing the book was that the author found Felder and Rosseau's book to be somewhat lacking
with respect to structure and rigor.
In addition, Felder and Rosseau is not very suitable as a handbook for
practicing engineers. The author feels that a student should be able to make use of a book he or she
has invested money and time in also later in his or her career.