Chemical Engineering Related Books to Read

Hello everyone,

I'm going into year 12 and was hoping if anyone could recommend some books related
to chemical engineering specifically. I have searched high and low and not found as many
as are available for other engineering fields such as civil. I have seen Cambridge's list for chemical but it only has two (that I will read).

Thanks

I've seen the Cambridge one too; I'd advise to only read the first one, the second one is just

Where are you thinking of applying? (:

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All of Coulson &Richardson's volumes and Perry's Handbook for general info.
Heat Transfer - Kern, Lienhard&Lienhard.
Reaction Engineering - Octave Levenspiel.
Process Control - Corripio - Principles and Practice of Automated Process Control.

Well im not fully sure yet, but it certainly is annoyying how so few uni's offer chemical engineering compared to say.. mechanical.

what about you ?

I know, but at least it'll help narrow down our options; we don't want too many choices!

Not certain yet but Manchester, Nottingham, Imperial, Cambridge, Birmingham, Bath, Loughborough and Leeds.
Obviously I need to rethink everything but I haven't visited all of them yet.

Yeah, that is true! haha.

Just to be sure that we've seen the same Cambridge list, is this the book you said
was better?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Introduction-Chemical-Engineering-Tools-Tomorrow/dp/0470885726/ref=pd_sim_b_1


So what made you chose chemical engineering over the others ?

I like the kinds of jobs that I would be doing in chemical though, especially jobs in pharmaceuticals, energy and the oil and gas sector You?

An invaluable book I have used during my chem eng course at Leeds is Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes by Richard Felder and Ronald Rousseau, 3rd edition. This will tell you how to perform all mass and energy balance calculations that chemical engineers need and provides many worked examples in an easy to understand language. I picked this copy up on ebay for around £15 so hunt around

Perry's Handbook is the bible of chem eng and almost everything is in there (hence the size of it!)

For reaction engineering use:
Octave Levenspiele (rammed full of equations, some explanations)
Elements of reaction engineering, Fogler (big yellow book, very good explanations)

For process control use any really that gives you an understanding of measured, controlled and distrurbance variables, feedforward and feedback loops, transfer functions.

For chemical thermodynamics use Schaum's Outlines, thermodynamics with chemical applications, 2nd edition.

Those should give you an idea of the theroetical side of chemical engineering and the things you can apply it to.

Can I just ask, where did you get most of your books from?

I'm considering chemical engineering at university but it's dependant on my AS grades so I don't want to spend loads on a book and then end up not doing it, and the book being useless.

Related books were £50+ the last time I checked, and I'd rather not spend that kind of money on a book I'd hardly understand.

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I have only purchased 3 books and they were second hand from either ebay/amazon/friends or the university. The rest I simply borrow/renew from Edward Boyle library at Leeds.

Ah okay thanks

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Tbh when you start you can borrow all the books you need and just use those! I only got the ones that I overused

All of Coulson &Richardson's volumes and Perry's Handbook for general info.
Heat Transfer - Kern, Lienhard&Lienhard.
Reaction Engineering - Octave Levenspiel.
Process Control - Corripio - Principles and Practice of Automated Process Control.

Is the Heat Transfer easily understood or is it a jumble of complex maths?

I've used the Lienhard & Lienhard book shown and it's not particularly light reading.

Like almost every subject in engineering, the amount of maths involved depends on the level you are using it at and the application. You could be taught to solve many common industrial heat transfer problems without having to use anything more complicated than multiplication and exponents. The maths used in a lot of textbooks can get very complicated.

I shall do, this is just for extra reading, I'm in year 12 at the moment (:

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Sure sounds good to me and I wish I did some extra reading before I started the course although after 3 fun years you get plenty of opportunities to read up on material that is tricky so really no need to worry

Any more questions please fire away.