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J.D. Seader is Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at the University of Utah.  He received B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.  He has authored or coauthored 110 technical articles, 8 books, and 4 patents, and also coauthored the section on distillation in the 6th and 7th editions of Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook.  In 2004 he received the CACHE Award for Excellence in Chemical Engineering Education from the ASEE; and in 2004, he was a co-recipient of the Warren K. Lewis Award for Chemical Engineering Education of the AICHE.

Ernest J. Henley is Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Houston.  He received his B.S. degree from the University of Delaware and his Dr. Eng. Sci. from Columbia University, where he served as a professor from 1953 to 1959.  He has authored or coauthored 72 technical articles and 12 books, the most recent one being Probabilistic Risk Management for Scientists and Engineers.  In 1998, he received the McGraw-Hill Company Award for "Outstanding Personal Achievement in Chemical Engineering", and in 2002, he received the CACHE Award of the ASEE for "recognition of his contribution to the use of computers in chemical engineering education."  He is President of the Henley Foundation.

About the Authors.

Preface to the Second Edition.

Nomenclature.

Dimensions and Units.

PART ONE: FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS.

Chapter 1. Separation Processes.

Chapter 2. Thermodynamics of Separation Operations.

Chapter 3. Mass Transfer and Diffusion.

Chapter 4. Single Equilibrium Stages and Flash Calculations.

Chapter 5. Cascades and Hybrid Systems.

PART TWO: SEPARATIONS BY PHASE ADDITION OR CREATION.

Chapter 6. Absorption and Stripping of Dilute Mixtures.

Chapter 7. Distillation of Binary Mixtures.

Chapter 8. Liquid-Liquid Extraction with Ternary Systems.

Chapter 9. Approximate Methods for Multicomponent, Multistage Separations.

Chapter 10. Equilibrium-Based Methods for Multicomponent Absorption, Stripping, Distillation, and Extraction.

Chapter 11. Enhanced Distillation and Supercritical Extraction.

Chapter 12. Rate-Based Models for Distillation.

Chapter 13. Batch Distillation.

PART THREE: SEPARATIONS BY BARRIERS AND SOLID AGENTS.

Chapter 14. Membrane Separations.

Chapter 15. Adsorption, Ion Exchange, and Chromatography.

PART FOUR: SEPARATIONS THAT INVOLVE A SOLID PHASE.

Chapter 16. Leaching and Washing.

Chapter 17. Crystallization, Desublimation, and Evaporation.

Chapter 18. Drying of Solids.

Index.