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Preface

“The man who has ceased to learn ought not to be
allowed to wander around loose in these danger-
ous days.”
M. M. Cody
(ca. 1870)

A. The Audience

This book is intended for use as both an undergraduate- and graduate-level text in
chemical reaction engineering. The level of difficulty will depend on the choice
of chapters to be covered and the type and degree of difficulty of problems
assigned. Most problems requiring significant numerical computations can be
solved with a personal computer using either POLYMATH or MATLAB.

B. The Goals
B.l. To Develop a Fundamental Understanding
of Reaction Engineering

The first goal of this book is to enable the reader to develop a clear
understanding of the fundamentals of chemical reaction engineering. This goal
will be ,achieved by presenting a structure that allows the reader to solve reac-
tion engineering problems through reasoning rather than through memorization
and recall of numerous equations and the restrictions and conditions under
which each equation applies. To accomplish this, we use (1) conventional
problems that reinforce the student’s understanding of the basic concepts and
principles (included at the end of each chapter); (2) problems whose solutllon
requircc reading the literature, handbooks, or other textbooks on chemical
engineering kinetics; and (3) problems that give students practice in problem

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