Fluidization Engineering 2nd Edition by D. Kunii (PDF)

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Fluidization Engineering, Second Edition, expands on its original scope to encompass these new areas and introduces reactor models specifically for these contacting regimes. Completely revised and updated, it is essentially a new book. Its aim is to distill from the thousands of studies those particular developments that are pertinent for the engineer concerned with predictive methods, for the designer, and for the user and potential user of fluidized beds.

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**Intro**This book was written in 1991, but it is still in print. This is probably because a book of comparable quality covering the fluidized bed topic to the extent that this one does has just simply not emerged since then. If you want to learn about fluidized beds for practically any purpose, this book is an excellent start, and also an excellent ongoing reference manual. This book is also remarkable since it was written in part by Octave Levenspiel, who is famous for writing a couple of more or less entry level books to chemical reactor design, The Chemical Reactor Omnibook, and Chemical Reaction Engineering. The Omnibook is particularly friendly and amazing (handwritten!!), and depicts Levenspiel to be a really intelligent, sensitive, witty, and unique person. Consider Fluidization Engineering to be his more serious/advanced/specific book topic. Fortunately, this one is just as well written, well edited, and accessible.**The Content**Amazon’s description for the content of this book is pretty brief, but if you use the “Look Inside!” tool, you can read the titles to all of the chapters included in the book. The sub-sections are listed too. You’ll also see in the “Look Inside!” that this book has a really nice catalog of variables in the front. The variable catalog is actually very important for this book, There are *a lot* of wacky variables involved with the formulas describing fluidized beds, since the info originally came from a lot of different researchers around the world. Fortunately, the catalog keeps them all straight for you.The content of the book covers a broad and comprehensive spectrum of aspects of fluidized beds. The first two chapters are fairly non-technical, and discuss generally what fluidized beds are, and their history of use. Chapters 3, and 5-7 describe the gritty details of the fluidization fluid dynamics itself. Chapter 4 is about the gas distributers that all fluidized beds require, and how to design them. Chapter 8 is about high-velocity fluidization, after you push a bubbling fluidized bed up into being a turbulently fluidized bed. Chapter 9 is about particle mixing and segregation. Chapters 10-13 are about heat and mass transfer in fluidized beds. Chapter 14 is about what to do when the particles are changing size over time. Chapter 15 is about circulating fluidized beds. Finally Chapters 16-18 are about designing chemical reactors with fluidized beds inside them. Together, this info is wonderfully comprehensive. It seems like everything one could ever want is here, and it is all well discussed, and reasonably accessible to a general engineering audience. The comprehensiveness makes this a long book, but fortunately the chapters function well independently from each other, so you can just pick out the ones that you find relevant, and focus on them without worrying about the others.**Conclusions/Buying Advice**There is also a similar, and somewhat older book about fluidized beds somewhat older than this one, Gas Fluidization Technology by Geldart (1986). This is also a very high quality book, but as of the time of writing, it cost around $400, it was out of print. On the other hand, this one is in print, and cost about $73 at the time of this review. If you are looking to get started in fluidized beds, buy this one first, in the interest of saving your money. If you are looking to do some serious heavy lifting with fluidized bed science, like using fluidized beds to get your PhD, running a startup company around a new fluidized bed technology, or doing fundamental research in fluidized beds, consider also getting the Geldart book.

This book is very well written! Easy to follow (for the most part). I’ve personally didn’t know anything about fluidization and with this book I’ve been able to build a model to predict my company’s process behavior, really, it is that good. Granted, in order to be able to take full advantage of this book you must have a solid math and science background. Otherwise you will probably struggle a bit with it. If you are an engineer trying to learn fluidization this is the book for you.

Excellent reference. Unfortunately, poor quality printing. I didn’t expect this poor quality in a book from Butterworth-Heinemann. It looks similar to a scan done with inadequate resolution. It’s all legible, just not crisp. From my perspective this is unacceptable in a hard bound book currently in print bought from the publisher. I’d give the authors 5 stars for the content, but the publisher 2 stars for the quality of the final printed product. End result 3 stars.

Met my expectations, i am studing a gas flow against countercurrent of solids mass flow it help me a lot to clarify some of my thories.

It is a classical text of fludization engineering. Every fluidziation field practioner needs to have a copy.

A good update of the classic first edition

A classic reference

I used this textbook a lot in my academic dissertation about 15 years ago. It is still up to date.

The Fluidization Engineering by Kunii and Levenspiel is a clearly written, practical text book, which provides ample real life examples to elucidate key concepts. Its treatment of theoretical formulations are presented without excessive details or complex derivations, which makes it ideal for field engineers to get a good understanding of the basic principles and apply them with confidence in the light of numerous practical examples.

As described excellent text I’ve used it for years and am happy to own a copy.

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