Chemical Reaction Engineering, written by Octave Levenspiel, is a textbook that focuses on the practical application of chemical reaction processes in industrial reactors. This reference work supports students and professionals in appropriately designing and optimizing chemical reactors, with an emphasis on qualitative analysis, simple design methods, and graphical techniques. Levenspiel's text provides insight into the most important reactor concepts and systematically compares different reactor types.
Product features
- Author: Octave Levenspiel (Oregon State University)
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Publication date: September 16, 1998
- Number of pages: 688
- ISBN: 9780471254249
- Topic: Biochemical engineering
- BISAC: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Chemical & Biochemical
About the author
Octave Levenspiel was a professor of chemical technology at Oregon State University and a well-known expert in reaction engineering. He wrote the influential textbook Chemical Reaction Engineering, which grew to become a standard work in chemical technology.