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Chemical reaction engineering is concerned with the exploitation of chemical reactions on a commercial scale. It's goal is the successful design and operation of chemical reactors. This text emphasizes qualitative arguments, simple design methods, graphical procedures, and frequent comparison of capabilities of the major reactor types. Simple ideas are treated first, and are then extended to the more complex.
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Chemical Reaction Engineering Third Edition Octave Levenspiel Department of Chemical Engineering Oregon State University John Wiley & Sons New York Chichester Weinheim Brisbane Singapore Toronto ACQUISITIONS EDITOR MARKETING MANAGER PRODUCTION EDITOR SENIOR DESIGNER ILLUSTRATION COORDINATOR ILLUSTRATION COVER DESIGN Wayne Anderson Katherine Hepburn Ken Santor Kevin Murphy Jaime Perea Wellington Studios Bekki Levien This book was set in Times Roman by Bi-Comp Inc. and printed and bound by the Hamilton Printing Company. The cover was printed by Phoenix Color Corporation. This book is printed on acid-free paper. The paper in this book was manufactured by a mill whose forest management programs include sustained yield harvesting of its timberlands. Sustained yield harvesting principles ensure that the numbers of trees cut each year does not exceed the amount of new growth. Copyright O 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, (508) 750