<p>Like the title suggest, I need a good Mass Transfer book to review for things in graduate school. I realized Transport Phenomena by BSL is consider the Bible in chemical engineering and that its better to review their exmaples and problems. However, I want to find other books to if possible. Any good recommendation?</p>
<p>So far this is what I found:</p>
<li><p>Mass Transfer by by Anthony F. Mills</p></li>
<li><p>Mass Transfer: Fundamentals and Applications Physical and Chemical Engineering Sciences) (Paperback)
by Anthony L. Hines (Author), Robert N. Maddox (Author)</p></li>
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<p>I realized mass and heat transfer are very identical and there are books that cover both topics in one, but I only one that deals with Mass only. Thanks :)</p>
<p>Separation principle processes by Seader is less mass transfer, more separation. Deals with physical chemistry - standard stripping, absorption, distillation, binary points and what not.</p>
<p>Try Levenspiel for the chemical reaction part of mass transfer.</p>
<p>Transport Processes and Separation Process Principles by Geankoplis was another textbook they used for mass transfer.</p>
<p>Incropera's heat/mass transfer book was a great supplement to BSL, more aimed at undergraduate in my opinion.</p>
<p>I read several reviews so far and most of them said the mass transfer part of Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer was lacking, and that is what I really need...</p>
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Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer by Incroprera is very weak in mass transfer, which is more important to ChEs than for AE or ME students.
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<p>That makes sense... as a ME I always wondered about this "mass transfer" my ChemE friends were talking about...</p>
<p>You could try "Units Operations of Chemical Engineering" by McCabe, Smith and Harriot. I thought its coverage of the basics of mass transfer were helpful (that goes for the coverage on momentum transfer and heat transfer, as well) because of the simple and straightforward explanations, as opposed to Incorpera and DeWitt or Seader and Henley (books that my separations professor described as "great review if you already have a mastery of the material" o_O).</p>
<p>That sound like Transport Phenomena that also cover the momentum, heat, and mass transfer portion. Does it cover the theory of mass transfer more than what was found in Transport Phenomena? I'm leaning toward Mass Transfer by Anthony Mills, but it looks like the book is more gear toward ME than ChE...</p>
<p>No, McCabe, Smith and Harriot is definitely not as dense as Byrd, Stewart and Lightfoot. It does, however, cover the basics of each, and it's more geared towards an undergraduate audience (BSL is a graduate text, I think, but it's used because it's the definitive Transport text). Plus, it covers operations like distillation (hence the name).</p>
<p>Incropera and Dewitt have only one chapter about mass transfer (I looked at the first edition though). It is a very good book on heat transfer, particularly radiation, although that may be because I never learned radiation in my ChemE transport classes. I used Incropera and Dewitt because it was the text for a heat transfer course I took not in ME.</p>
<p>Try Fundamentals of Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer by Welty, Wicks, Wilson, Rohrer (?). I think the third edition was good (it had a beige and green cover), although I can't attest to how good is the newest edition (blue and red cover).</p>
<p>I found Diffusion in Solids by Paul Shewmon to be pretty good and fairly clear in its examples, though I don't know if it's the type of mass transfer book you're looking at.</p>
<p>i googled for best books on mass transfer only. i read your thread for books on mass transfer only. you said you went through all different recommended books and found the best one. can you please name it? many thanks!!! </p>
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