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The Chemical Engineering Reference Manual (CHRM6) is the most thorough reference and study guide available for engineers taking the chemical PE exam. It is current for the all-objective exam format. Comprehensive coverage of chemical engineering topics and an excellent index make this a reference you will use long after the exam. The coverage you need CHRM6 prepares you for the major exam topics Fluids Thermodynamics Heat Transfer Environmental Mass T… More >>
Chemical Engineering Reference Manual for the PE Exam, 6th ed.
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#1 by MB Futures & Options Newsletter on March 22, 2010 - 11:36 am
I already read this book. As we all know there is a rank in engineering, and a colleague of mine called the NCEES and was simply told that if you want your PE wake up and go to work. We are still thinking.
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by Ozzy on March 22, 2010 - 1:05 pm
Like mentioned before written by a non Ch E.
Especially Kinetics is very very week.
I wouldn’t recommend it to anybody.
Get yourself a copy of mccabe smith, van ness, Chemical process principles and Levenspiel. That’s all you need.
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by Chem E PhD on March 22, 2010 - 2:45 pm
I used this book quite extensively in my preparation for the PE Exam. I also used it in the exam as one of the two most important references (the others being Perry’s).
There were good sections on:
* Test preparation guidelines
* Thermodynamics
* Combustion and chemical reactions
* Fluid mechanics / momentum transfer
* Heat transfer
* Psychrometrics
* Economics
The following sections do need some improvement and beefing up:
* Kinetics. Many other reveiwers have already commented on this. You will need a good textbook on the subject in addition to this book.
* Mass Transfer. The sections here are mostly acceptable but as I found out when I ordered the sample NCEES exam, I needed a lot more than was in this text. If you order this book you will also need a good unit operations text to consult. A specific weakness was in the area of absorption/stripping columns.
There was also a lot of information that really is unnecessary. While very interesting, the Environmental section, encompassing eight chapters, provides little in the way of topics pertinent to the exam. The same holds true for the design section. Besides psychrometrics and economics, there is very little useful pertaining to the exam material.
The book has some mistakes, but [...] has a pretty thorough list of errata. The online program associated with the text provides access to an experienced engineer who provides insight into the most important topics on the exam.
If I had to do it over, I would still purchase this book. Thanks to much of what was in here, I passed the exam in the first attempt – and it has been a long time since I’ve taken any type of ChemE exam!
Rating: 4 / 5
#4 by Kristy on March 22, 2010 - 5:27 pm
First of all, you should really use this book to study for the exam. It does a very good job with heat transfer, combustion, work and energy balances, phase diagrams, and liquid-vapor-solid equilibrium including McCabe-Thiele. Also just full of good fundamental things: ideal gas law, real gases, steam, etc. I took the exam twice and passed the second time mostly due to a change in my method of studying. I haven’t done design engineering in years, so I felt like I was starting from scratch. Ok, tips and tricks:
* Buy this book along with the quick reference guide. Plan on using ONLY the quick reference guide for the exam, however, make page # references to the larger reference manual within the quick reference. My quick reference was FULL of notes and pages and the 2nd time, I only opened the larger book for reference material, not equations.
* Memorize the units for all characteristics – pressure, enthalpy, viscosity, specific heat, density, molecular weight etc.
* Don’t spend too much time trying to re-learn integral calculus so you can solve kinetics problems. Actually, don’t spend too much time on kinetics at all if it’s not already a strong point for you. Become very familiar with the most basic of questions: heat transfer, fluid dynamics, mass and energy balances, reaction stoichiometry, PV=nRT, and you’ll pass. Kinetics is a small percentage.
* Use Cameron’s for fluid dynamics and don’t bog yourself down with Bernoulli. Just think of liquid in terms of head, and understand how to convert to pressure.
* Bring Perry’s to the exam (don’t spend much time going through it before hand) as a resource for the “weird” questions that come up. You’ll be surprised how many exam questions seem to be lifted right out of sentences in Perry’s.
Good luck to everyone!
Rating: 4 / 5
#5 by Adam S. Wosneski on March 22, 2010 - 8:14 pm
FYI: I passed the 4/09 exam on the first try. My other materials were the 6 Minute Solutions, the NCEES Practice Test, and the old D&P License Review.
This book is not as statistically complete as Perry’s of course, and you need to get that book too for the exam (i.e., stupid look-it-up misc. materials or chemical properties questions) but it’s the best all-around everything book for the exam. Organized fantastically, written in dummy’s language (thanks Lindberg), used for at least 75 % of the Q’s. If you’re a real nerd you’ll like it just for the reading (it’s interesting). This book I’m keeping… and my job is not even real engineering!
Rating: 5 / 5