'Chemical engineering is the field of applied science that employs physical, chemical, and biological rate processes for the betterment of humanity'. This opening sentence of Chapter 1 has been the underlying paradigm of chemical engineering. Chemical Engineering: An Introduction is designed to enable the student to explore the activities in which a modern chemical engineer is involved by focusing on mass and energy balances in liquid-phase processes. Problems explored include the design of a feedback level controller, membrane separation, hemodialysis, optimal design of a process with chemical reaction and separation, washout in a bioreactor, kinetic and mass transfer limits in a two-phase reactor, and the use of the membrane reactor to overcome equilibrium limits on conversion. Mathematics is employed as a language at the most elementary level. Professor Morton M. Denn incorporates design meaningfully; the design and analysis problems are realistic in format and scope.

'Designed to enable students to explore the activities in which a modern chemical engineer is involved.'

Source: Times Higher Education Supplement

'… modern and concise … a very useful book for new undergraduate students and also other scientists and engineers working on the interface with chemical engineering … The author’s use of more modern unit operations, such as membrane separations, to illustrate traditional concepts of chemical engineering is appealing and gives a fresh perspective to ‘old’ topics.'

Source: Chemistry World (rsc.org/chemistryworld)

'Denn’s book is a compact introduction to material and energy balances that gives a flavor for the kinds of problems with which chemical engineers grapple.'

John H. Seinfeld Source: AiChE Journal

'If your students are well-prepared, the text provides a well-structured framework to explore the fundamentals of chemical engineering analysis and to give an overview of the breadth of opportunities that lie ahead for chemical engineers.'

David L. Silverstein Source: Chemical Engineering Education