Diffusion: Mass Transfer in Fluid Systems (Cambridge Series in Chemical Engineering)

This is a excellent and inexpensive book on the subject of diffusion. It is written in a very practical style that is enjoyable to read. The author mixes technical information with personal experience and even a little history.

Diffusion? This is a nice book.

Honestly, this book is probably the best to have for understanding the scientific phenomena behind Mass Transfer. However, it is not complete. This book does not have enough practical charts and data to train chemical engineering students on how to put theory into practice. Gurney-Lurie charts should be added in with an explanation of the Biot (Bi) number. Discussion of partial differential equations including both separation of variables and compounding of variables are given, but much more on PDEs are needed. This book is not at all adequate for heat transfer (only has 1 chapter dedicated to H.T.), and the chapter on simultaneous heat and mass transfer should be expanded into 2-3 chapters. However, this book never claims to be focused on heat transfer, so there's that.

Good condition

The book is great. However, although the seller describes their status as good, it has mashed page, crossed out with pen, pencil and highlighter pens. The cover is completely folded and some leaves are falling. All sides of the book are crossed out with red pen. I recommend the book, but not in the condition I received what I bought.

The standard in the field, at a good softcover price.

I had Cussler as my Fluids professor. While it wasn't diffusion, the textbook is written in Cussler's language - when you read it, it's like you're hearing the man give you a drawn out lecture. There's a few Minnesota references (Go Gophers!) and a lot of content on diffusion and mass transfer.The textbook starts out with the fundamentals of diffusion - the small scale stuff. After you've struggled with diffusion coefficients, it gets into mass transfer and a lot of weird mass transfer scenarios. The end of the book is applications of mass transfer - distillation's the main one.There are tons of end of the chapter problems that are very abstract and can be really difficult to solve. There are some examples in the chapters, but they really don't help you solve the problems. If you can figure out Cussler's puzzles, this is the book you want to learn diffusion from. If not, Google the problems and someone else solved them for you.

Book arrived on time and in condition as promised. lots of hand written notes and hilighting in the book, but I dont mind it. it helps me out!