Chemical, Biochemical, and Engineering Thermodynamics

I like this book. Rationale:1. The mathematical rigor, the absolute only way to communicate anything in the physical sciences, is very much present. If you don't know what total differentials are, as well as simultaneous equations, function notation, differential equations, and the like, don't balk at its presence in this book. It's necessary.2. The examples (called "Illustrations" for some odd reason) are sufficient in number, and, after doing out the examples myself, key concepts I was missing sunk in, to the credit of Dr. Sandler.3. Ample Figures and Diagrams well-described.4. A very good system of equation numbering (it seems that equations simultaneous to each other, or algebraically equivalent are assigned alphabetical suffixes).5. Plenty of room in the margins to write comments (Sandler encourages this, and I do too).I could go on. I'll leave you with an algorithm to reading this book that I found helpful:HOW TO READ THIS BOOK: Use a pencil and take notes on each and every word in this book. Then, go back and recopy the Illustrations into a notebook (or into your computer using any word processor, and MathType, a very nice FREE software package obtainable upon any Google search. I know. A tangent.)...This is working really well, since, as you take notes in the book, you get to skip over the Illustrations (and you get to feel like you're moving fast!), and when you're doing the Illustrations, you get to skip over the text (ditto). It also helps if, when Sandler references an equation in the text (example, "Eq. 6.4-25"), circle this equation reference and write its page number next to it (example, p. 217).Best Wishes!UPDATE: This book is not just a model thermodynamics textbook, it's a model for all textbooks.

While I thoroughly enjoyed the class, I found this book to be somewhat difficult to read. The worked out example problems were definitely helpful, but I was left to many times having to take a step they did "at face value," due to a lack of explanation.As for the extra content on the CD, its almost all useless. The MATLAB scripts are outdated, and will not run unless you correct them yourself. This was not a problem for me, but others lacking Matlab experience might struggle. The graphs on the CD are useful supplements to the book, as the reproductions in the book are oftentimes small and hard to read.

The book is in good condition as described on the website. Purchased with prime two day shipping, and it was shipped very promptly,arriving in two days. This book is actually a very good one for thermo,and it is used for college's thermodynamics course.I can use it for years. It worth the price.

This book is extremely dense and hard to follow. It is also not a good introductory thermodynamics book, but suited to grad/phd level multi-phase/component thermodynamics. It is missing details and derivations, which make it hard to follow the progression of the book. Expect to need a supplemental explanation of topics covered in it.

The book is pretty good if you are a Chemical Engineer. It explains the theoretical stuff pretty well, but the examples are not as detailed. Overall, it is a much better book than other ones that are out right now. The author definitely geared it towards chemical and bio-engineers.

This book is really complex and not helpful to learn from if you've never taken (or briefly taken) thermodynamics before. You definitely need the teacher to explain what is going on in the book (which mine doesn't so relying on the book doesn't help). The problems are mostly different from the examples in the book and definitely not straightforward at all (I would not have been able to solve some of the problems if my teacher didn't show me how to do them because some are tricky and you need to know little tricks here and there). Furthermore, if you are one of those persons that needs to see almost every step to solving problems, this book skips quite a bit of steps and leaves you wondering how they got there. It would be a great book if you already know thermodynamics and are a graduate student. For those taking thermo (for some crazy requisite, like I need to despite the fact that I'm in environmental engineering) not a good textbook.

WOW, it is amazing book, I love it but it is great for graduate students who study chemical engineeringfor undergrad student, I will recommend Smith's book

absolutely terrible textbook in every single way. I have had a number of rough textbooks throughout my undergrad career as a chemistry BS major but those books do not even compare to this one!first, the notation they use is hardly used anywhere else and only serves to cause confusionsecond, it does not do example problems with actual numbers. just long winded derivations and very general problems. additionally there is no student answer manual so not only does the book not teach but without the answer manual the problems in the book cannot be treated like example problems to learn from. while i know some professors assign homework from the book and some students will just copy answers from them and get 100s on the homework, there are errors in the manual so the professor will know and the student will not actually learn and will most likely not perform well.third, the layout of the text even sucks in the fact that the lines are spaced slightly too far apart in general and without a larger space to separate steps of the derivations they do. there are just solid pages of evenly spaced text with no breaks to help you understand where one step/part of the problem ends and another begins. this may sound petty but its hard to get into and follow general problems without numbers, it just becomes a bunch of letters and the notation they use is found almost nowhere else so that doesnt help the process.

Extremely clear and well written. It was suggested fromour lecturer to back up our class handouts.Apart from the introductory chapters to refresh mass & energybalances, entropy & thermodynamic potentials (with some newtopics covered on the latter), I have found particularlywell-developed nearly all the remaining content, namely equilibriumin mono & multicomponent systems, fugacity computation for acomponent in a mixture, and obviously the chapters on LLE,LVE & LLVE.On the other hand, the lastchapters (on chem eq plus the stuff on the bio side)are somehow drawn mainly from basicchemistry+organic chemistry courses,thereby adding very little to the book contentA necessary step in order to deal with transport phenomenain a following course

In diesem Standardwerk zur Thermodynamik im ingenieurtechnischen Sinne gelingt es dem renommierten Autor auf hervorragende Weise, Breite und Tiefgang zu erzielen, ohne dass deshalb das Buch aus allen Nähten platzen müsste. Am Beispiel der Berechnung von Phasengleichgewichten für Gemische unter erhöhten Drücken mithilfe einer kubischen Zustandsgleichung wurde mir der besondere Wert dieses Buches deutlich: Hier erfährt man genug über den wissenschaftlichen Hintergrund und über Detailfragen bis hin zu einer fixfertigen Anleitung, wie man solche Berechnungsalgorithmen programmiert. Mit den Dateien auf der beiliegenden CD-ROM ist es dann ein Leichtes, die eigenen Berechnungen auch noch zu überprüfen.Von meinen Bachelor-Studenten des klassischen Maschinenbaus und der Material-und-Verfahrenstechnik, die allesamt deutscher Muttersprache sind, konnte ich noch keinen vom Gebrauch dieses Buches überzeugen, mein Master-Student kam aus dem Schwärmen fast nicht mehr heraus...Das sagt eigentlich alles.

Book is perfect!