AIChE Handbook for Chemical Engineers

Much of the background needed for an understanding of the materials embodied in the text is basic science and engineering. To analyze and follow-up quantitatively and to optimize the underlying processes in chemical engineering a profound knowledge of theoretical background is needed. Section I, consisting of Chapters 1 and 2, highlights a technical introduction to the basic principles and calculation techniques introduced in the text.

were detailed specifications for a correlated series of more than a dozen text and reference books, including a chemical engineers' handbook and basic textbooks on the elements and principles of chemical engineering, on industrial applications of chemical synthesis, on materials of construction, on plant design, on chemical-engineering economics. Broadly outlined, too, were plans fori monographs on unit operations and processes and on other industrial subjects to be developed as the need became apparent.

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then editor of Chemical and Metallu~cal Engineering, served as chairman and was joined subsequently by S. D. Kirkpatrick as consulting editor.