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Summary: Old, outdated classic cant compete with modern thermo books!
Review: Although the book is totally introductory, it does *not* serve well to teach you something. Contents, concepts, structure, didactics, writing style and layout are more than obsolete: this text is the worst US-textbook on thermo ever (engineering thermo/chemical thermo/chemical engineering thermo), believe me! If you do not share my opinion, then it must be due to your absolute ignorance regarding this field or your pretended incompetence. This book is neither worth buying, owning, working with, nor looking at. Do not waste your time with this superficial and totally introductory, conveying-nothing text. The reason why this has been a best-seller from the late 1940's to the late 1980's (four decades!) is its age: it has been the *very* first, (c)1949, and thus, the most well-known, popular book on chem eng thermo. 'The eldest' is always being respected the most ("a classic"), but this does not mean that a best-selling classic is the best. Forget this outdated title of the (outdated?) McGraw-Hill Chemical Engineering Series and profit from the new fresh look and uptodate, modern approach taken by competitive book series (Wiley, Prentice Hall, Wiley-Interscience, and...McGraw-Hill ;). Smith's 6th edition book is an incredibly poor monograph! And by the way, it is rather a treatment of Engineering Thermodynamics than a treatment of Chemical (Engineering) Thermodynamics!! Since this obsolete classic cannot compete with the new titles, I give a 2-stars rating only. 50 years ago, Smith was the de facto standard intro text (and it remains an "Introducation" throughout the 800 pages!), now this has changed.
Please also read my pos reviews of thermo books by Stanley I. Sandler 1999 (for advanced learners), Noel de Nevers 2002 (for beginners), and Stanley M. Walas 1985 (for workers). For a complete listing of relevant thermo titles have a look at table 8-1, pages 8.2-8.4, in Poling/Prausnitz/O'Connell 5th ed. c2001.
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Summary: A fundamental text !
Review: As Chemical Engineering demands from you three Thermodynamics , this book is for you . I do not remember any other book so well written and with so clear explanation about the fugacity concepts for instance . The solved problems about the first and second law of Thermodynamics are extraordinary .
After you are engaged with this text you will forget your teacher without missing him .
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Summary: Good, easy to understanding
Review: Good, mainly in Appendix ( steam properties,etc). But I have difficulty in doing your task, I'm very glad if there is a problem-solving for that. Thanks !!!
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Summary: Don't buy it if you don't have to
Review: I'm not sure why Stanford University makes us use this book. I find it exceptionally difficult to understand. Were it not for my physical chemistry course, I would be completely lost in this text. The examples are often poorly done, and it takes three or four of us to complete the problems. The only reason the problems are difficult is because the authors don't give you the information you need to know how to solve the problems. A text that's hard to understand is not a mark of quality.
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Summary: Good book for students of Chemical Engineering
Review: Ideal for undergraduate thermodynamics course. Readers should have a thorough understanding of integral calculus and differential equations as well as material/mass balances. Excellent steam tables (English and SI units) and chemical property tables. Each chapter includes several example problems, but answers to the exercises are not provided.
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Summary: Most Established Thermo text is also most up to date
Review: In the new 7th edition I saw for the first time an equation of state explicit for density.
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Summary: Useless
Review: Ok, so i am a chemical engineering student, and this is supposed to be the textbook. Which allegedly would later on make it a forced reference for a student. However, the only useful information is the steam tables, because the properties and other things are insufficient, trust me, the book has sitted on my shelf unused for a year and a half. I have not sold it because no one here would buy it. The explanations are poor. If you want to know about thermodynamics, this is really not your book, I would rather recommend a Fisicochemistry book.As for properties tables and the such, well, the information you are really going to use is all summed up in the Chemical Engineer's Handbook, which is a must for any ChE, even if you're just a student (believe me, it has saved me a lot of times).
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Summary: Poorly edited out of date
Review: They just keep adding to this book without removing or editing old material. The book has become a chaotic jumble of ideas of the various authors. There are other better books out there.
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Summary: excellent thermo book !
Review: This book introduces classical thermodynamics for chemical engineering students. Organization of this book is very good and it helps understanding the material more easily. If you found difficulties in using other thermo book (like the one by Sandler), try to buy this book to capture the material far easily.
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Summary: It's complete, easy to read and comprehensive
Review: This book is written specifically for chemical engineers.It covers topics such as EOS for non-ideal multicomponent mixtures, chemical reaction thermodynamics and thermodynamics of solutions. I suggest it to everyone who have trouble with this course.
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