Rules of Thumb for Chemical Engineers

This book will never be on the best seller list, but for a practicing Chemical Engineer it could be a good addition to your library. The book sits on my shelf next to Perry's Handbook along with my other references. As a Chemical Engineer, I work on some tasks often and some tasks rarely. I bought the book to help bring me up to speed for those rare tasks.My method to rate this book was to look up tasks that I work on often to see if I agree with what is written. In areas where I feel I have a high level of expertise, I agreed with the authors approach and I still found pointers that were new and useful to me. This gives me confidence that I can use this book raise my awareness for situations where I am not actively involved, but may get asked to get involved once in a while.

For those of us who do not work in operations, we may work at several companies throughout our lives, all of them with differing but similar standards and practices. I intend for this book to serve as kind of my own standards and practices book, to make notes based on experiences and rules of thumb I have throughout my career. The metric/SI units added to the 5th edition are a must these days, as much of the work at E&C firms is for clients outside the USA.

I bought this for my Son who has a Ph. D in Chemical Engineering. It was the ONLY thing he asked for- for Christmas this year so it must be good! That is- if you’re a Chemical Engineer!

The style has changed, there are introductions at the beginning of each chapter, equations have replaced most of the nomographs, VBA routines are now presented, SI units have been added to most equations, chapters on biopharmaceutical engineering have been introduced. In a nutshell, it is a good compilation of some must-read articles from famous magazines such as Chemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering Progress, Hydrocarbon Processing,.... It shall be useful for process design engineers as well as for process engineers working in plants.

Xcellent book. My son likes it very much

This is a handy book for quick reference and quick calculation of various parameters encountered in "everyday Chemical Engineering." It is more complete than other "Quick Calc" texts and cover a wide variety of areas. These are "Ball Park" estimates and not a substitute for more rigorous calculations.

Excellent book.

My cover all day to day calculations requirements