Product Description
For upper level undergraduate and graduate level Chemical Engineering courses in Pollution Prevention and Chemical Process Design that are offered to Chemical Engineering or Environmental Engineering students, as well as Practicing Chemical or Civil Engineers interested in finding ways to prevent pollution. This book is the result of the USEPA (Environmental Protection Agency) green engineering curriculum development effort for chemical engineering departments. The… More >>
Green Engineering: Environmentally Conscious Design of Chemical Processes
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I used this book for a graduate level course, “Advances in Pollution Prevention”. This book is not the best book I’ve ever read. The end-of chapter problems are mediocre, and often insult the reader’s ability, particularly as a graduate level chemical engineering student. One example that comes to mind is where the problem requests the student to “write a 2 page essay” on some topic or another. It could use a lot more “meat” – stronger use of reaction kinetics, thermodynamics, and transport phenomena. The writing is difficult to follow, and sounds like a government report (not surprising, as the authors work for the EPA).
Rating: 3 / 5
This is a good book. If you need to know where environmental protection fits into engineering studies and design, then this book is for you.
Rating: 5 / 5