Mass and Heat Transfer

T. W. Fraser Russell is the Allan P. Colburn Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware. Professor Russell is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineering (AIChE). He has been the recipient of several national honors including the AIChE Chemical Engineering Practice Award. Anne Skaja Robinson is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware and Director of the NSF IGERT graduate training program in biotechnology. She has received several national awards, including the NSF Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE/Career). Norman Wagner is the Alvin B. and Julia O. Stiles Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware. His international teaching and research experience includes a Senior Fulbright Scholar Fellowship in Konstanz, Germany, and sabbatical as a Guest Professor at ETH, Zurich.

• Preface; To the student; Acknowledgements; Instructor and readers guide; Part I: 1. Introduction; 2. Chemical reactor analysis; 3. Heat exchanger analysis; 4. Mass contactor analysis; Part II: 5. Conduction and diffusion; 6. Convection mass and heat transfer; 7. Estimation of interfacial area in mass contactors; 8. Design case studies.

"This is a valuable introductory work for junior-level chemical engineering students." -R. Darby, CHOICE