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Features ListFEATURES OF THE TEXT
Introduction to Chemical Processes: Principles, Analysis, Synthesis
The Murphy text is written to encourage students to:
Link to Chemistry. The text provides a clear link to freshman chemistry courses.
Students will remain more interested in the processes and get a better flavor of what chemical processes do if they understand how chemistry relates to it.
Synthesize Chemical Processes.
The text treats process calculations as a means to an end:
the design of safe, reliable, environmentally sound and economical chemical processes.
The author's approach gives students a good understanding of how these calculations inform choices that must be made in designing chemical processes to make desired products.
Develop Solid Problem-Solving Strategies.
Developing good problem-solving strategies is an important outcome of this introductory course.
Readers will find a systematic approach to deriving equations and accounting for specifications.
A novel feature of this text is the use of heuristics, introducing beginning students to the notion that practicing engineers rely not just on calculations but also on collected experiences.
Invent and Analyze. The text integrates the best of the "Process Synthesis" philosophy with modern approaches, problems, and techniques. Students learn that principles of process synthesis are gainfully applied to problems in biotechnology, medicine, materials science, and environmental protection.
Let Pedagogy Lead. The text is heavily-laden with pedagogy, tools to guide the reader and enhance the subject matter.
A few of the pedagogical elements in this text include, Helpful Hints, Chemistory, Did You Know and Case Study sections.
For a complete overview of the pedagogical elements see the Guided Tour section of the front matter.
Explore Software. This text is not directly tied to one software program, allowing students to use software as a common tool to solve problems. An appendix illustrates the use of spreadsheets to find roots of equations, scientific calculators to solve matrix equations, and graphing software to fit model equations to data. |
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