King presents a graduate or undergraduate textbook for chemical engineering courses on such matters as separation processes, mass-transfer operations, unit operations, and distillation. It could complement a text on transport phenomena to provide the core of the chemical engineering curriculum by covering the transfer of momentum, heat, and mass. The only prerequisite is a course emphasizing thermodynamics, which could be taken concurrently. Students will need other texts and courses to learn phase equilibrium thermodynamics and basic mass-transfer theory, he warns. A particular change in the third edition is accounting for the spread of separation processes beyond petroleum and chemicals, especially to recycling applications. Annotation 2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
