Mass Transfer

From Fundamentals to Modern Industrial Applications

Asano, Koichi

1. Edition August 2006
XIV, 276 Pages, Hardcover
104 Pictures
32 tables
Monograph

ISBN: 978-3-527-31460-7

Wiley-VCH, Weinheim

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This didactic approach is unique in combining a step-by-step introduction to all important fundamentals with the latest applications. Based on the author's successful new modeling method, the text uses exercises taken directly from existing chemical plants.

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This didactic approach to the principles and modeling of mass transfer as it is needed in modern industrial processes is unique in combining a step-by-step introduction to all important fundamentals with the most recent applications. Based upon the renowned author's successful new modeling method as used for the O-18 process, the exemplary exercises included in the text are fact-proven, taken directly from existing chemical plants.
Fascinating reading for chemists, graduate students, chemical and process engineers, as well as thermodynamics physicists.

Introduction
Diffusion and Mass Transfer
Governing Equations of Mass Transfer
Mass Transfer in Laminar Boundary Layer along a Flat Plate
Heat and Mass Transfer in Laminar Flow inside a Circular Pipe
Motion, Heat and Mass Transfer of Particles
Mass Transfer of Drops and Bubbles
Turbulent Transport Phenomena
Evaporation and Condensation
Multi-Component Distillation
Appendix
A. Governing Equations in Cylindrical and Spherical Coordinate
B. Phase Equilibria
C. Physical Properties

Professor Koichi Asano is recent emeritus of the Tokyo Institute of Technology. His ground-breaking work in the field of mass transfer modeling has made industrial separation of the stable isotopes of oxygen and oxygen-18 by cryogenic distillation possible, which began in June 2004.
He began his studies of chemical engineering at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1960 and became assistant professor there in 1970. He was promoted to full professor in 1984 and accepted a position as professor at Utsunomiya University in Tochigi prefecture in 1997. He was an editor of the Journal of Chemical Engineering of Japan during 1991 and 1992. He is author of three other books and co-author of further technical books such as kagaku kogaku benran (Chemical Engineering Handbook).

K. Asano, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan