'Mass transfer and separation processes' constitutes a core course of undergraduate programmes in chemical engineering. I started teaching it at the University of Calcutta more than thirty years ago. In the process of sharing with the students the joy and hardship of studying the subject, I felt that some inadequacies remain in the available texts despite the fact that some of them are excellent treatises. Ideally, a text in this area should present a balanced mix of fundamentals and applications with a flavour of recent developments and trends. This will give the students a sense of completeness and help them in their comfortable and confident transition to a chemical engineer. This volume-a new book on an old subject-is an attempt towards this direction.
'Mass transfer and separation processes' constitutes a core course of undergraduate programmes in chemical engineering. I started teaching it at the University of Calcutta more than thirty years ago. In the process of sharing with the students the joy and hardship of studying the subject, I felt that some inadequacies remain in the available texts despite the fact that some of them are excellent treatises. Ideally, a text in this area should present a balanced mix of fundamentals and applications with a flavour of recent developments and trends. This will give the students a sense of completeness and help them in their comfortable and confident transition to a chemical engineer. This volume-a new book on an old subject-is an attempt towards this direction.
'Mass transfer and separation processes' constitutes a core course of undergraduate programmes in chemical engineering. I started teaching it at the University of Calcutta more than thirty years ago. In the process of sharing with the students the joy and hardship of studying the subject, I felt that some inadequacies remain in the available texts despite the fact that some of them are excellent treatises. Ideally, a text in this area should present a balanced mix of fundamentals and applications with a flavour of recent developments and trends. This will give the students a sense of completeness and help them in their comfortable and confident transition to a chemical engineer. This volume-a new book on an old subject-is an attempt towards this direction.