Process Engineering

Michael Kleiber started his career as a scientific assistant at the TU Brunswick, where he completed his doctoral thesis in 1994. He has worked for the former Hoechst AG and its successors in the fields of process development, process simulation and engineering calculations, before moving to Thyssen Krupp Uhde as a Chief Development Engineer. Dr. Kleiber is a member of the German Board of Thermodynamics and contributor to several standard works on process engineering, such as the VDI Heat Atlas, Winnacker-Küchler and Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry.

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Highly recommended for all students and practical engineers in the chemical / process industry
Reviewed in Germany on 25 December 2018
As a chemical engineer and process engineer I transferred twice between the academic world and the industrial world. After 20 years of working experience in the chemical industry I am know back teaching various courses in chemical engineering (e.g. separation processes, heat and mass transfer, process simulation, thermodynamics, etc.).
While our academic education focuses mostly on the theoretical knowledge, junior engineers and scientists starting their first job in the industry are faced with many new practical terms and concepts. After crossing that gap between academia and industry twice, it was especially the subtitle of this book that caught my interest:" Addressing the gap between study and chemical [process] industry".

Reading through the well written book was like a reminder of the practical learning curve I walked along as a junior engineer. All (yes all) the topics presented in the book played a role in my working career. Some of the concepts, e.g.

- engineering project (chapter 1),
- working on a process (chapter 3),
- heat exchangers (chapter 4),
- fluid flow engines (chapter 5),
- piping and instrumentation (chapter 12), utilities and waste stream (chapter 13)
- or process safety (chapter 14)

are continuous companions in the professional industrial job. Other concepts in the book, e.g.

- alternative separation processes (chapter 7)
- or thermodynamic models in process simulation (chapter 2)

might be helpful depending on the current assignment.

Reading the book, you can feel the long practical experience of the author. The text is easy to read, even where concepts can be complex. The strong theoretical background of the author is well known from other publications. In this book, however, the topics are presented on a