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Acknowledgements

It is a great pleasure to acknowledge the valuable contributions provided by many of my
well-wishers. 1 wish to express my heartfelt gratitude and indebtedness to Prof. A.N.
Samanta, Prof. S. Ganguly and Prof. S. Ray, Department of Chemical Engineeing, IIT
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Kharagpur. I am also grateful to Prof. D. Mukherjee, Head, Department of Chemical
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Engineeing, IIT Kharagpur. My special thanks go to all of my colleagues for having
created a stimulating atmosphere of academic excellence. The chemical engineering
students at IIT Kharagpur also provided valuable suggestions that helped to improve
the presentations of this material.
I am greatly indebted to the editorial staff of PHI Learning Private Limited, for their
constant encouragement and unstinted efforts in bringing the book in its present form.
No list would be complete without expressing my thanks to two most important people
in my life-my mother and my wife. I have received their consistent encouragement and
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support throughout the development of this manuscipt.
Any further comments and suggestions for improvement of the book would be
gratefully acknowledged.

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