Biological and Bioenvironmental Heat and Mass Transfer (Food Science and Technology) |  | Author: Ashim K. Datta
Publisher: CRC Press
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Providing a foundation in heat and mass transport, this book covers engineering principles of heat and mass transfer. The author discusses biological content, context, and parameter regimes and supplies practical applications for biological and biomedical engineering, industrial food processing, environmental control, and waste management. The book contains end-of-chapter problems and sections highlighting key concepts and important terminology It offers cross-references for easy access to related areas and relevant formulas, as well as detailed examples of transport phenomena, and descriptions of physical processes. It covers mechanisms of diffusion, capillarity, convection, and dispersion.
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Great choice for undergraduate heat/mass transfer courses July 8, 2010
Philip (CA)
This book provides a concise and complete overview of heat and mass transfer at an undergraduate level. It first introduces the reader to the general problem-solving approach for transport processes. It then covers the major mechanisms of heat transfer in the next several chapters. After a brief discussion on chemical kinetics, it covers the major mechanisms of mass transfer, drawing analogies to the heat transfer topics already described. Along the way it demonstrates some valuable problem-solving techniques (non-dimensionalization, making approximations, using charts, etc.). The book covers a lot in only 300 pages and most of the explanations are clear. However there are a few topics, particularly those in the mass transfer section, that could use more detail.
The book assumes that the reader has some familiarity with momentum transfer, but this is not absolutely essential. Spending a few hours reading about fluid mechanics on Wikipedia, for example, should provide more than enough background. The math is at an appropriate level for an undergraduate. The book shows how to use separation-of-variables to solve PDE's and provides an introduction to the error function, but it avoids vector notation and any discussion of tensors. The governing equations are written out explicitly in component form.
The book is mainly targeted towards biological or environmental engineering students. As a result it includes some topics not usually found in standard transport books. Examples include flow through porous media (such as tissues or soil), transpiration in plants, and microwaving of food. Nevertheless it does spend some time on heat transfer fins and other traditional engineering topics. Regardless of the particular application, I appreciate that the book remains focused on the basic set of physical processes underlying all transport phenomena. The problem-solving procedure introduced in the beginning is systematically followed for every example. Topics which detract from this big picture view, such as transport correlations, are described only to the extent necessary instead of in (excruciating) detail as they are in many other texts.
I would highly recommend this book for any instructor looking for a suitable undergraduate biological transport phenomena text.
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