Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering

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Summary: this book is a life saver
Review: As a chemical engineering student, I borrowed my roommate's copy of the book so much that she thought it was my book and asked to borrow it back.

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Summary: This book is inadequte
Review: I feel that this book is inadequte for students and professionals alike. It does not explain well how systems act in real life situations, like most academia books

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Summary: This is a ChemE Must
Review: I went to cornell where Prof. Harriot teaches. This book is a must for reference. There are points where it is a little difficult but it is really a overall good book.

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Summary: This book is inadequte
Review: I work in the chemical operations sector. I will highly recommend this book for 3rd or 4rth year future chemical engineers. It contains viable information on many units that they will just have to know about. However, I will not recommend it for working operation engineers. It is too general for us, it doesn't problem shoot units such as pumps and compressors. I don't think that I have much use for this book, specially that I own the Perry's Handbook.

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Summary: Good for students yet too general for professionals
Review: I work in the chemical operations sector. I will highly recommend this book for 3rd or 4rth year future chemical engineers. It contains viable information on many units that they will just have to know about. However, I will not recommend it for working operation engineers. It is too general for us, it doesn't problem shoot units such as pumps and compressors. I don't think that I have much use for this book, specially that I own the Perry's Handbook.

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Summary: BSL (Bird, Stewart, Lightfoot) is far superior to this one.
Review: I'm a student at the University of Florida, where this text has been recquired for Unit Operations classes (fluids and separations). Frankly I think a better treatment of transport process should be a prerequisite for using this book, as such fundamental theory is insufficiently developed in this text. Even as a pure unit ops. text, I feel it is inferior to several other works, including Perry's Handbook.

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Summary: Chemical engineer's bible (beside Perry's)
Review: If you are a Chemical Engineer and couldn't afford the Perry's, this book is a must!!

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Summary: fluid mechanics ,transprtation of fluids
Review: it is the best books i have ever read in my semester ofchemical engineering. the topic i like the most, is transportation offluids .this book is recommended by my professor. the matter of turbulent flow and laminar flow is just fantastic.

thank you!

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Summary: best seller
Review: This book is userfriendly. I bought this in 1982. Still, I use this book when I need any information about unit operations of chemical engineering (fluid flow, heat transfer, mass transfer). Sometimes, I use this book like dictionary. I mean that I carry this book where I go

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Summary: This book is an annotated index to Perry's
Review: Warning: This is not a textbook. Basically, they took out some of the stuff from Perry's and rewrote it more carefully and filled in some of the details. In general, this book is hard to read, missing important things, and burdened with unimportant things. It really does no justice to the quality and quantity of amazing insight inside the head of Peter Harriott (from whom I've taken classes). I can't deny that it makes an awesome reference book, but woe to any class that depends on this book.