• Combination of Inductive and Deductive approaches -- the text expertly combines inductive and deductive teaching, invoking each style where appropriate, enabling students to better grasp concepts and apply them with greater ease.

• Simplified writing style and high on rigor -- authors write in a conversational style that is easily understood by students and keeps the material from becoming dry and/or intimidating, but without compromising the mathematical rigor of the material.

• Real-world example-based approach, enabling students to better grasp the abstract concepts involved in thermodynamics and instructors to better communicate core thermodynamics concepts that are used to build upon in future engineering courses.

• Learning Objectives at the beginning of each chapter.

1. Introduction.

2. The Physical Properties of Pure Compounds.

3. Material and Energy Balances.

4. Entropy.

5. Thermodynamic Processes and Cycles.

6. Thermodynamic Models of Real, Pure Compounds.

7. Equations of State (EOS).

8. Modeling Phase Equilibrium for Pure Compounds.

9. An Introduction to Mixtures.

10. Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium.

11. Theories and Models for Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium of Mixtures: Modified Raoult’s Law Approaches.

12. Theories and Models for Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium of Mixtures: Using Equations of State.

13. Liquid-Liquid, Vapor-Liquid-Liquid, and Solid-Liquid Equilibrium.

14. Fundamentals of Chemical Reaction Equilibrium.

15. Synthesis of Thermodynamic Principles.

Appendix A: Steam Tables.

Appendix B: Mathematical Techniques.

Appendix C: Physical Properties.

Appendix D: Heat Capacity.

Appendix E: Antoine Equation.

Appendix F: The Joback Group Additivity Method.

Kevin D. Dahm

Kevin D. Dahm joined the Rowan University Chemical Engineering department in 1999, and was promoted from Associate Professor to Professor in 2013. He received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1992 and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998. He has published over 30 journal articles, many of which are in the area of engineering pedagogy, on topics such as instilling metacognition in engineering students, pedagogically sound uses for process simulation, and assessment of student learning. He has received four national awards from the American Society for Engineering Education: the 2002 ASEE PIC-III Award, the 2003 Joseph J. Martin Award, the 2004 Raymond Fahien Award, and the 2005 Corcoran Award. In addition, he and his father Donald Dahm authored the book Interpreting Diffuse Reflectance and Transmittance: A Theoretical Introduction to Absorption Spectroscopy of Scattering Materials. Prior to joining Rowan University, he was a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley and an adjunct professor at North Carolina A&T State University.

Donald P. Visco, Jr.

Donald P. Visco, Jr. is the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and a Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering in the College of Engineering at the University of Akron. Previously he taught at Tennessee Technological University. Professor Visco’s research work focuses on molecular design and thermodynamic modeling. He has won several awards for his research and educational activities, including both the Department of Energy PECASE and the ASEE National Outstanding Teaching Award. He has served as Chair of both the ASEE Chemical Engineering Division as well as the Education Division of AIChE. Professor Visco received both his B.S. and Ph. D. degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.