McGrawHillChemicalEngineeringSeries

EditorialAdvisoryBoard
JamesJ.Carberry,ProfissorofChemicalEngineering,UniversityofNotreDameJamesR.Fair,
ProfessorofChemicalEngineering,UniversityofTexas,Austin
WilUumP.Schowalter,ProfessorofChemicalEngineering,PrincetonUniversity Matthew
Tirrell,ProfessorofChemicalEngineering,UniversityofMinnesota JamesWei,Professorof
ChemicalEngineering,MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology

MaxS.Petem,Emeritus,ProfessorofChenticalEngineering,UniversityofColorado

BuildingtheLiteratureofaProfession
FifteenprominentchemicalengineersfirstmetinNewYorkmorethan60yearsago
toplanacontinuingliteraturefortheirrapidlygrowingprofession.Fromindustry
camesuchpioneerpractitionersasLeoH.Baekeland,ArthurD.Little,CharlesL.
Reese,JohnV.N.Dorr,M.C.Whitaker,andR.S.McBride.Fromtheuniversities
camesucheminenteducatorsasWilliamH.Walker,AlfredH.White,D.D.
Jackson,J.H.James,WarrenK.Lewis,andHarryA.Curtis.H.C.Parmelee,then
editorofChemicalandMetallurgicalEngineering,servedaschairmanandwas
joinedsubsequentlybyS.D.Kirkpatrickasconsultingeditor.
Afterseveralmeetings,thiscommitteesubmitteditsreporttotheMcGrawHill
BookCompanyinSeptember1925.Inthereportweredetailedspecificationsfora
correlatedseriesofmorethanadozentextsandreferencebookswhichhavesince
becometheMcGrawHillSeriesinChemicalEngineeringandwhichbecamethe
cornerstoneofthechemicalengineeringcurriculum.
Fromthisbeginningtherehasevolvedaseriesoftextssurpassingbyfarthescope
andlongevityenvisionedbythefoundingEditorialBoard.TheMcGrawHillSeries
inChemicalEngineeringstandsasauniquehistoricalrecordofthedevelopmentof
chemicalengineeringeducationandpractice.Intheseriesonefindsthemilestones
ofthesubjectsevolution:industrialchemistry,stoichiometry,unitoperationsand
processes,thermodynamics,kinetics,andtransferoperations.
Chemicalengineeringisadynamicprofession,anditsliteraturecontinuestoevolve.
McGrawHillanditsconsultingeditorsremaincommittedtoapublishingpolicy
thatwillserve,andindeedlead,theneedsofthechemicalengineeringprofession
duringtheyearstocome.

TheSeries

BaileyandOUii:BiochemicalEngineeringFundamentalsBennettandMyers:Momentum,Heat,
amdMassTransferBeveridgeandSchechter:Optimization:TheoryandPracticeBrodkeyand
Hershey:TransportPhenomena:AUnifiedApproachCarberry:ChemicalandCatalyticReaction
EngineeringConstantinides:AppliedNumericalMethodswithPersonalComputersCougbanowr
andKoppel:ProcessSystemsAnalysisandControlDouglas: ConceptualDesignofchemical

Processes
EdgarandHimmelblau:OptimizationofchemicalProcessesFabien:FundamentalsofTransport
PhenomenaFinlayson:NonlinearAnalysisinChemicalEngineeringGates,Katzer,and
Scbuit:ChemistryofCatalyticProcessesHolland:FundamentalsofMulticomponentDistillation
HollandandLiapis:ComputerMethodsforSolvingDynamicSeparationProblemsKatz,Cornell,
Kobayaski,Poettmann,Vary,Elenbaas,aadWeinaug:Handbookof
NaturalGasEngineeringKing:SeparationProcessesLuyben:ProcessModeling,Simulation,and
ControlforChemicalEngineersMcCabe,Smitb,J.C.,andHarriott:UnitOperationsofChemical
EngineeringMickley,Sberwood,andReed:AppliedMathematicsinChemicalEngineeringNelson:
PetroleumRefineryEngineeringPerryandCbilton(Editors):ChemicalEngineersHandbook
Peters:ElementaryChemicalEngineeringPetersandTimmerbaus:PlantDesignandEconomicsfor
ChemicalEngineersProbsteinandHicks:SyntheticFuelsReid,Prausnitz,andSherwood:The
PropertiesofGasesandLiquidsResnick:ProcessAnalysisandDesignforChemicalEngineers
Satterfield:HeterogeneousCatalysisinPracticeSberwood,Pigford,aadWilke:MassTransfer
Smith,B.D.:DesignofEquilibriumStageProcessesSmith,J.M.:ChemicalEngineeringKinetics
Smith,J.M.,andVanNess:ZntroductiontoChemicalEngineeringThermodynamicsTreybal:
MassTransferOperations
VaUeRiestra:ProjectEvolutionintheChemicalProcessIndustriesVanNessandAbbott:Classical
ThermodynamicsofNonelectrolyteSolutions:

withApplicationstoPhaseEquilibria
VanWinkle:Distillation
Volk:AppliedStatisticsforEngineers
Walas:ReactionKineticsforChemicalEngineers
Wei,Russell,andSwartzlander:TheStructureoftheChemicalProcessingIndustries
WbitweUandToner:ConservationofMassandE.

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