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Acknowledgments

I wish to express my gratitude to the following for giving their time
in proofreading various sections of the text: Drs. A. A. Adesina,
L. M. Rose, C. J. Mumford, and J. D. Jenkins. I am indebted to
Emeritus Professor Octave Levenspiel for his encouragement and
advice in some chapters of the text, and to Drs. Waldram and Singh
for their comments, suggestions on safety in reaction engineering, and
the inclusion of HEL safety photographs in the text. I would also like
to thank Mr. Ed Steve for his comments and suggestions on scale-up
of reactors, and Mr. Joseph Rivera for some of the figures in the text. I
wish to express my gratitude to Drs. A. Bakker, J. B. Fasano, and V. V.
Ranade for contributing to Chapter 10 (Computational Fluid Dynamics
and Computational Fluid Mixing). I would like to acknowl-edge the
following companies for the use of their materials: Arthur D. Little,
HEL, M. W. Kellogg Ltd., Stone & Webster, Fauske & Associates, Inc.,
Simulation Sciences Inc., Chemineer, PROCEDE, and Absoft Corporation.
I would like to express my gratitude to the following institutions
for permission to reproduce their materials: Institution of Chemical
Engineers (U.K.), the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and
Chemical Engineering—a publication of Chemical Week Associates.
I am also indebted to those whose work was drawn.
I thank Dr. E. L. Smith for his comments and suggestions during
the preparation of some of the chapters in the text and wish him a
happy retirement. It has been a pleasure to have learned so much from
him during his tenure at Aston University.
Sincere gratitude to Tim Calk of Gulf Publishing Company for his
direction and editing of the book, to Danette DeCristofaro and Jerry
Hayes of ExecuStaff for their excellent production of the book, to Mr.
Phil Carmical and Ms. Jennifer Plumley of Butterworth-Heinemann for
the production of the CD-ROM.

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