Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering (3rd Edition)

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Summary: A Labor of Love
Review: Scott Fogler's Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering is more than just a text, it is a complete and engaging course. He combines the needed fundamental concepts of the most important topic in chemical engineering with modern, real world, problems to give the student (and instructor)a chance to solve relevant engineering problems. The text is written in a style that conveys to the reader that this guy knows what he is talking about and has recently solved industrial problems. I enjoy reading his examples because they are current problems and find myself solving the homework problems just for fun. For both students and professional engineers this is the most comprehensive and up-to-date text on the subject. To top it off Folger has developed a web site and CD-Rom to accompany the text with additional material and problems. I have redone my entire course on chemical reaction engineering using Folger's material - he has done it all! I can only imagine the work that must have gone into this. Thank you Professor Folger.

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Summary: A compile of "copies"
Review: The beauty of Fogler's book is the numerous real-world problems it contains. It's coverage of RTDs in Chemical Reactors and Catalytic Reactions remain the best I've come across in any chemical engineering textbook. The book is easy to understand yet, challenges the reader into serious thinking on problem solving. It is up-to-date with numerous references to state of the art computer problem solving techniques and programs. Fogler is a must for every student of Reaction Engineering. In combination with Octave Levenspiels book (which is rather theoretical and less real-world and computer-problem-solving oriented compared Fogler) a reaction engineering course would be well grounded.

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Summary: An Excellent Book on Reaction Engineering
Review: The beauty of Fogler's book is the numerous real-world problems it contains. It's coverage of RTDs in Chemical Reactors and Catalytic Reactions remain the best I've come across in any chemical engineering textbook. The book is easy to understand yet, challenges the reader into serious thinking on problem solving. It is up-to-date with numerous references to state of the art computer problem solving techniques and programs. Fogler is a must for every student of Reaction Engineering. In combination with Octave Levenspiels book (which is rather theoretical and less real-world and computer-problem-solving oriented compared Fogler) a reaction engineering course would be well grounded.

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Summary: Absolutely worth buying
Review: This book is good not only as a text book because of the simple way it presents the subject, the problems, and the complementary examples on the CD. It is also a great reference, because it has every chapter sumarized by the end, with the formulas. It includes multiple examples both on the book and the Cd, and allows full use of computational tools applied on the problem solving.

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Summary: This book presents complicated material in an insightful way
Review: This book is positively excellent; it makes the subject matter both interesting and easy to learn. With the texts for so many of my classes being mediocre at best, it's nice to run across a text that reflects a tremendous amount of thought and presents complicated subect matter in an uncomplicated way. In addition, I give the book props for the thought-provoking examples and problems. They make problem sets more interesting and worthwhile.

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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: This book is so good, if you're taking a reactor design class, and it's not the required text...GET IT. It'll make your life a lot easier. I got it for an undergrad class and used it as a necessary reference in a graduate class.

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Summary: Simply excellent!
Review: This book is so well presented it's simply a dream. Fogler makes learning this stuff (which is pretty hard) really easy. The book is very logical and easy to follow. It covers practically all aspects of reaction kinetics and reactor design. It's an absolute must for any Chemical Engineer who has to pass exams!

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Summary: The Perfect Book
Review: This books presents a very simplified and a unified approach to the Chemical Reactor Design and Reaction Engineering. The concepts are explained with such simple logic that it stimulates thinking of further application in the field. The topic on RTD is perfectly described not found in any other text. Made my life a lot easier in the Graduate school. A must for all chemical engineers.

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Summary: Great Book
Review: This has been the best chemical engineering book in my undergraduate education, BY FAR. Not only does the book rpesent concepts that are easy to understand, but they are also reinforced continually with plenty of example problems from the accompanying CD. The CD also has a few modules and "games" to help out. All in all, from the standpoint of an undergraduate dealing with this course material, the book is excellent in helping students with different learning styles learn the material. I have no knowledge whether the depth of the subject is thorough enough for real world applications, but I suspect it is.

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Summary: The most lucid chemical engineering book there is
Review: This is probably the best book you will find in chemical engineering. It is very well-written and concisely explains the basics of reactor engineering. This book is a necessity for a chemical engineer for its ability to elucidate the important concepts of kinetics