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Usually ships in 1 business days | | Only 4 left in stock, order soon! | | | | | | The Chemical Engineering Reference Manual is the most thorough reference and study guide for engineers taking the Chemical PE exam. Hundreds of tables, charts, and figures make this an all-in-one resource for the exam. The cross-referenced index guarantees that during the exam you'll find information quickly and easily. Many solved example problems reinforce the concepts covered. Whatever you need to review, you'll find it here.
Having the Chemical Engineering Reference Manual with you will minimize your need for other specialized resources on exam day. Comprehensive coverage of chemical engineering topics and an excellent index also make this a reference you will use long after the exam.
Topics Covered - Fluids
- Thermodynamics
- Heat Transfer
- Environmental
- Mass Transfer
- Kinetics
- Plant Design
- Law and Ethics
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Michael R. Lindeburg PE | | Hardcover: | 1120 pages | | Publisher: | Professional Publications, Inc. | | Publication Date: | October 24, 2003 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 1591260078 | | Product Length: | 11.3 inches | | Product Width: | 8.42 inches | | Product Height: | 1.93 inches | | Product Weight: | 5.1 pounds | | Package Length: | 11.3 inches | | Package Width: | 8.42 inches | | Package Height: | 1.93 inches | | Package Weight: | 5.1 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 12 reviews |
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12 of 12 found the following review helpful:
 most useful chem PE reference book during the exam Apr 14, 2008
By StevieQ
This is the best reference book available for the chemical PE exam. If you can only bring one book to the exam room, this is it.
The fact that the author is not a chemical engineer shows in the presentation and contents. As has been pointed out by others, the book is extremely skimpy on chemical kinetics. The kinetics chapter has only 4 and a half pages of text, but you can bring other books or your own notes to the exam to make up for this deficiency. The distillation section only alludes to the concepts of minimum reflux and total reflux graphically in an off-handed way, with no verbal discussion of these 2 important concepts at all. In fact, the term "minimum reflux" is not even listed in the index. The important concept of fugacity is nowhere to be found in the whole book. However, overall, I still think the author and his assistants did an excellent job putting together this marvelous reference book for the exam, the skimpy kinetics portion and other oversights notwithstanding.
This book isn't particularly good as an exam prep study guide because it has too much information, a great deal of it on minor subjects most chem E's did not learn in school. Using it to prepare for the PE exam is a bit like using Perry's Handbook to study for the exam. It can be done, but one will quickly get bogged down. It is, however, indispensable for use during the exam because of its very rich collection of reference information one will find useful during the exam, such as formulas, charts, tables, constants, and unit conversion tables, etc, plus materials on the many minor topics that most chem E's did not learn in school and do not have time now to prepare for. Don't study using this book. Instead, browse through the pages and be aware of what's in it so that when a question on an arcane subject, such as environmental law, OSHA law, safety, etc, comes up during the exam you can quickly find an answer by using the index. I answered many more questions during the exam by relying on this book this way. It's the most useful book to bring to the exam room.
For exam preparation to review the main chemical engineering concepts and to practice solving problems with speed, use Kaplan's Chemical Engineering: License Review by Dilip Das and Rajaram Prabhudesai. Das/Prabhudesai is much more user-friendly and much less dense, but the Das/Prabhudesai book is very lacking in reference information, something that is the obvious strength of Lindeburg.
I credit my passing the Chem E PE exam on my first attempt in large part to having this book with me. I had been out of school for 22 years and didn't use my Chem E training on my job during this span and I only put in 30 to 50 hours of study, plus another 42 hours SITTING(big emphasis here!) through a review course where I did not do a single homework assignment, so altogether less than 100 hours of actual preparation time however I count it. Still, I managed to pull it off on the first try. Could I have succeeded anyway without this book? Possibly, but this Lindeburg book certainly helped tremendously in the success of my endeavor.
My advice to anyone preparing for the chemical PE is to get both Das and Lindeburg. Yes, you'll have to shell out the money for both sets of books, but doing so is still far cheaper than having to take the exam twice!
Bottomline: this is an indispensible REFERENCE MANUAL for use during the exam(look at the book title!), but not a great study guide. Get both Das and this book to pass the exam.
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Must have for the exam Apr 22, 2006
By Mark Reynolds
"che engineer"
This is a must have for the PE just like Perry's handbook for Chemical engineering. The whole Lindeburg series is good. The practice problem companion has 450 problems!
Also recommend other classic Chemical engineering books:
Levenspiel - Kinetics
McCabe-Smith-Harriott - Unit Ops
Crane Technical Paper 410
Other study materials:
PE practice problems from NCEES
PE exam from Nandagopal
Six-minute problems for PE exam
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Chemical PE Exam Tips! Dec 31, 2009
By Kristy
First of all, you should really use this book to study for the exam. It does a very good job with heat transfer, combustion, work and energy balances, phase diagrams, and liquid-vapor-solid equilibrium including McCabe-Thiele. Also just full of good fundamental things: ideal gas law, real gases, steam, etc. I took the exam twice and passed the second time mostly due to a change in my method of studying. I haven't done design engineering in years, so I felt like I was starting from scratch. Ok, tips and tricks:
* Buy this book along with the quick reference guide. Plan on using ONLY the quick reference guide for the exam, however, make page # references to the larger reference manual within the quick reference. My quick reference was FULL of notes and pages and the 2nd time, I only opened the larger book for reference material, not equations.
* Memorize the units for all characteristics - pressure, enthalpy, viscosity, specific heat, density, molecular weight etc.
* Don't spend too much time trying to re-learn integral calculus so you can solve kinetics problems. Actually, don't spend too much time on kinetics at all if it's not already a strong point for you. Become very familiar with the most basic of questions: heat transfer, fluid dynamics, mass and energy balances, reaction stoichiometry, PV=nRT, and you'll pass. Kinetics is a small percentage.
* Use Cameron's for fluid dynamics and don't bog yourself down with Bernoulli. Just think of liquid in terms of head, and understand how to convert to pressure.
* Bring Perry's to the exam (don't spend much time going through it before hand) as a resource for the "weird" questions that come up. You'll be surprised how many exam questions seem to be lifted right out of sentences in Perry's.
Good luck to everyone!
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Written by a non-chemE Oct 02, 2006
By M. Marlatt
"Matt M."
I just wrote a long review and the browser crashed...
The book is lacking in bread-and-butter chemE material. Mass transfer problems are all very simple and solutions are only presented graphically (what if there isn't a graph on the test?). The Kinetics section is only 8 pages long!!! That is only 8 pages to summarize the reaction rates, Plug flow, CSTRs and other goodies. It really need more kinetics.
I'd still buy it again.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
A Must Have for the PE Exam Jun 04, 2010
By SBChE
This book was a great overall reference during the PE Exam. As mentioned in other reviews, the kinetics portion is lacking, so bring a copy of Chemical Reaction Engineering by Levenspiel to the exam. Other recommended titles for use on the exam: Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook, Fundamentals Principles of Chemical Processes by Felder & Rousseau and Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering by McCabe, Smith and Harriot.
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