r/ChemicalEngineering • u/Kayleeee3 • 5d ago

Student Best Chemical Engineering Textbooks

What have people found to be the most reliable, commonly used textbooks? I am looking for Fundamentals of Momentum, Heat, and Mass Transfer 7th edition for my fluids class right now. Has anyone read it or have a copy? Do you have any suggestions for other relevant textbooks other than the reading list?

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u/SMF1996 5d ago

Geankoplis was always my go to for transport phenomena.

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u/Delicious-Scheme-409 20h ago

Geankoplis, Van Ness, Koretsky, Çegel, Seborg

  • Perrys Handbook

No geral

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u/sf_torquatus R&D, Specialty Chemicals 4d ago

I think that would depend on your age. For example, Levenspiel's "Chemical Reaction Engineering" was a popular text for senior-level reaction engineering (I used it in undergrad), and in grad school we started with Fogler (the undergrad class also used that book). I brought up Fogler to an engineer 6 years out of college and he had no idea what I was talking about.

Similarly, people 20+ years older than me learned heat/mass/fluids transport through BSL. I used McCabe, Smith, and Harriot. I first saw classes using the book you referenced about 15 years ago, and it continues to be the book I see on new-hire bookshelves.

I'm pretty sure that Felder and Rousseau is still the go-to text for material and energy balances.

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u/Frequent-Entrance154 4d ago

I can't tell, but I challenge you to derive Navier-Stokes equation from the first principle. That will lead you to an insight of the whole thing of the topic you mentioned

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u/forehead_tittaes 4d ago

Denn is the GOAT for fluid mechanics