Rules of Thumb for Chemical Engineers

This book is very useful, for me a Mechanical Engineer.I can quickly obtain estimates of quantities check other results.

This book will never be on the best seller list, but for a practicing Chemical Engineer it could be a good addition to your library. The book sits on my shelf next to Perry's Handbook along with my other references. As a Chemical Engineer, I work on some tasks often and some tasks rarely. I bought the book to help bring me up to speed for those rare tasks.My method to rate this book was to look up tasks that I work on often to see if I agree with what is written. In areas where I feel I have a high level of expertise, I agreed with the authors approach and I still found pointers that were new and useful to me. This gives me confidence that I can use this book raise my awareness for situations where I am not actively involved, but may get asked to get involved once in a while.

This is a handy book for quick reference and quick calculation of various parameters encountered in "everyday Chemical Engineering." It is more complete than other "Quick Calc" texts and cover a wide variety of areas. These are "Ball Park" estimates and not a substitute for more rigorous calculations.

I bought this for my Son who has a Ph. D in Chemical Engineering. It was the ONLY thing he asked for- for Christmas this year so it must be good! That is- if you’re a Chemical Engineer!

The book is full of good practical applications and the excel spreadsheet is great for solving the problems of an everyday Engineer