Table of Familiar Textbooks and Reference Books for Chemical Engineering

Sr.

No.

Subject

Title of the Text/Reference

Name of Authors

Publisher

 

 

 

1

 

 

 

Process Calculations

Stoichiometry

B. I. Bhatt, S.M. Vora

Tata McGraw Hill

Chemical Process Principles Vol. I, II,III

O.A. Hougen, K.M. Watson

C.B.S. Publishers & Distributors

Industrial Stoichiometry

W. K. Lewis, A. H. Radaseh

and H. C. Lewis

McGraw-Hill

Process Calculation for Chemical Engineers

Murthy D.V.S.

McMillan

Chemical Process Analysis

-Mass and Energy balance

Willium Luben, Franklin Wenzel

Prantice Hall,

New Jersey

Process Engineering Calculation

-Material and Energy balance

Mack Tyner

Ronald Press Co.

Newyork

 

2

 

Mechanical Operations

Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering

W.L. McCabe, J.C. Smith

McGraw Hill

Principles of Unit Operations

A.S. Foust, L.A.Wenzel

John Wiley & Sons

Chemical Engineering

J.F. Richardson, J.M. Coulson

Pergamon Press

Unit Operations

Brown et. al.

John Wiley & Sons

 

 

 

 

 

3

 

 

 

 

 

Fluid Flow Operations

Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering

W.L. McCabe, J.C. Smith

McGraw Hill

Principles of Unit Operations

A.S. Foust, L.A.Wenzel

John Wiley & Sons

Chemical Engineering

J.F. Richardson, J.M. Coulson

Pergamon Press

Fluid Mechanics & Hydraulics

R.S. Khurmi

Khanna Publishers

Fluid Mechanics

Streeter, Wylie

McGraw Hill

Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering Vol. I,II

P. Chattopadhyay

Khanna Publishers

Text book of Fluid Dynamics

Chorlton F.

CBS Publishers

Fluid Mechanics for Chemical Engineers

Denevers

Tata-McGraw Hill

Fluid Mechanics

Victor L. Streeter

McGraw Hill

Fluid Mechanics

Bober, Kenyon

John Wiley and Sons

Fluid Mechanics & Hydraulics

Giles

McGraw Hill

Pump Operation and Maintenance

Tyler G. Hicks

Tata-McGraw Hill

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Heat Transfer

Engineering Heat Transfer

Rajendra Prakash, C.P. Gupta

Nem Chand and Brothers

Heat Transfer

D. Q. Kern

McGraw Hill

Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering

W.L. McCabe, J.C. Smith

McGraw Hill

Unit Operations

A. S.Foust, L.A.Wenzel

John Wiley & Sons

Chemical Engineering

J.F. Richardson, J.M. Coulson

Pergamon Press

Heat Transmission

Mc Adams W.H.

McGraw Hill

Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering Vol. I,II

P. Chattopadhyay

Khanna Publishers

Heat and Mass Transfer Through theory and Problems

P. Chattopadhyay

Khanna Publishers

Unit Operations

Brown G. G.

CBS Publishers and Distributors

Basic Heat and Mass Transfer

Mills

CBS Publishers and Distributors

Fundamentals of Heat and Mass transfer

Frank P. Incropera,

Devia P. Dewitt

John Wiley and Sons

Heat Exchangers : Selection, Design and Construction

A. D. Saunders

 

Langman Scientific & Technical

Heat Exchanger Design

A.P. Frans, M.N. Ozisik

John Wiley and Sons

Applied Heat Transfer

Todd Ellis, J.P.Todd

Harper and Row Publishers Newyork

Heat Transfer

J. P. Hallman

McGraw Hill

Heat Transfer- Basic approach

M. N. Ozisic

McGraw Hill

Heat Transfer

B. U. Gebhart

Tata-McGraw Hill

Theory and Problems of Heat Transfer

Donald R. Pitts

McGraw Hill

 

 

 

 

 

5

 

 

 

 

 

Mass Transfer

Mass Transfer

R. E. Trebal

McGraw Hill

Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering

W.L. McCabe, J.C. Smith

McGraw Hill

Chemical Engineering

J.F. Richardson, J.M. Coulson

Pergamon Press

Principles of Unit Operations

A.S. Foust, L.A.Wenzel

John Wiley & Sons

Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering Vol. I,II

P. Chattopadhyay

Khanna Publishers

Heat and Mass Transfer Through theory and Problems

P. Chattopadhyay

Khanna Publishers

Unit Operations

Brown G. G.

CBS Publishers and Distributors

Mass Transfer

T. K. Sherwood, R.L. Pigford,

C. R. Wilke

McGraw Hill

Absorption and Extraction

T. K. Sherwood, R.L. Pigford

McGraw Hill

Multicomponent Distillation

D. D. Holland

Prantice Hall India

 

 

 

6

 

 

Chemical Process Industries

Outline of Chemical Technology

M. Gopala Rao, Marshall Sittig

Affiliated East West Press

Shreve’s Chemical Process Industries

G.T. Austin

McGraw Hill

Chemical Technology Vol. I,II

Shukla & Pandey

Vani Books Company

Industrial Inorganic Chemicals’ Production

R. Thompson

Royal Society of Chemistry

Chemical Technology

Venkateshwamy

S. Chand & Co.

Chemical Process Technology

J. A. Moulign, Michiel Makke

John Wiley & Sons

 

7

Petroleum Refining

&

Petroleum Technology

Petroleum Refinery Engineering

B.K.B. Rao

Oxford & IBH Publishers

A Text Book on Petrochemicals

B.K.B. Rao

Khanna Publishers

Petroleum Refining

Nelson

McGraw Hill

Petroleum and Gas Engineering

Nagpal

Tata-McGrawHill

Advanced Petroleum Refining

G. N. Sarkar

Khanna Publishers

 

8

Plant Design

&

Economics

Plant Design & Economics for Chemical Engineers

Max S. Peters,

K. D. Timmerhause

McGraw Hill

Chemical Engineering Plant Design

F. C.Vilbrandt, C. E. Dryden

McGraw Hill

 

 

 

 

 

9

 

 

 

 

 

Safety

Safety in Chemical Industry

O.P. Kharbanda, E.A.Stallworthy

 

Safety and Accident Prevention in Chemical Operation

Faweett, Wood

Interscience Publishers

A course in Industrial Safety

K.U. Mistry

N.K.M. Publication

Safety Management

J.V. Grimaldi, R.H. Simonds

All India Book seller

Safety and Good House keeping

A.N. Saxena

National Productivity council, New Delhi

Occupational Safety & Health Management

T.J. Anton

McGraw Hill

Safe and Efficient Plant Operations and Maintenance

Green

McGraw Hill

Loss Prevention in the Process Industries Vol.I&II

Frank P. Lees

ButterWorth Publishers

Safety In Process Plant Design

G. C. Welb

John Wiley & Sons

Industrial Accident prevention

H. W. Heinrich

McGraw Hill

 

 

 

10

 

 

Pollution Control

and

Hazard Prevention

Pollution Control in Process Industries

S.P. Mahajan

Tata-McGrawHill

Pollution Management in Industry

R.K. Trivedi

Environmental Publishers

Safe Handling of Hazardous Chemicals

A.K. Rohatgi

J.K. Enterprise

Environmental Pollution and

Health Hazards in India

R. Kumar

Ashish Publishing House

Environmental Chemistry

A. K. Oe

Wiley-Eastern Ltd.

Air Pollution and Control

M. N. Rao, H. U. Rao

Tata-McGraw Hill

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Instrumentation and

Process Control

Industrial Instrumentation

D.P. Eckman

Wiley-Eastern Ltd.

Applied Instrumentation in

Process Industries

M. G. Andrew, H. B. Williams

Gulf Publishers

Digital Instrumentation

A. J. Bouwens

McGraw Hill

Mechanical & Industrial Measurement

R. K. Jain

Khanna Publishers

Industrial Instrumentation & Control

S. K. Singh

Tata-McGrawHil

Process Instrumentation and Control

A.P. Kulkarni

Nirali Prakashan

Outline of Chemical Instrumentation and Process Control

A.Suryanarayana

Khanna Publishers

Mechanical Measurements and Control

D. S. Kumar

Metropolitan Book Company

Electrical Measurement and Measuring Instruments

H. V. Satyanarayan Rao

Khanna Publishers

Principles of Industrial Instrumentation

D. Petranabis

Tata-McGraw Hill

Process Control

Harriot

Tata-McGraw Hill

Process System analysis and Control

Coughanowr

Tata-McGraw Hill

Process Industrial Instrumentation

and Control

Douglas M. Considine

McGraw Hill

Instrumentation Measurement and Analysis

B. L. Nakra, K. K. Chaudhary

Tata-McGrawHill

Instrumentation Devices and System

Rangan Sharma, Mani

Tata-McGrawHill

Computer Control of Process

M. Chidambaram

Narosa Publishing House

Industrial Instrumentation for Measurement and Control

T. J. Rhodes, G. C. Caroll

McGraw Hill

Design of Distillation Column Control system

Buckley

Tata-McGrawHill

Chemical Process Dynamics

Mohilla

ESP Publishers

Instrumentation Technique for Measurement and Control

Werner G. Holzbock

East- West Publishers

Measurement Techniques in Mechanical Engineering

R. J. Sweeney

John Wiley & Sons

Instrumentation for Engineering Measurements

R. H. Cerni, L. E. Foster

John Wiley & Sons

 

 

12

 

 

Introduction

Introduction to Chemical Engineering

S.K. Ghonsal

Tata-McGrawHill

Process Control

Thomas E. Marlin

McGraw Hill

Introduction to Chemical Engineering

Bedger, Benchero

McGraw Hill

Introduction to Chemical Engineering

Thompson, Ceckler

McGraw Hill

Physical Principles of Chemical Engineering

Grassmann P.

Pergamon Press, London

 

 

13

 

Solved Examples

&

Question Bank

Solved Examples in Chemical Engineering

G.K. Roy

Khanna Publishers

Objective Questions In Chemical Engineering

O.P. Gupta

Khanna Publishers

Question Bank in Chemical Engineering

V.K. Mehta

S.K. Kataria & Sons

Chemical Engineering for GATE

Ramprasad

Khanna Publishers

Basic Principles and Calculation in Chemical Engineering

Himmelblan

Prantice Hall India

 

14

 

Material Science

Material science and Technology

Hazara Chaudhary

 

Engineering Material

Rangwala

 

Material Science

B. D. Zestar Zebeski

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

15

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chemistry

Text Book of Organic Chemistry

P.L.Soni, H.M.Chawla

S.Chand & Sons

Organic Chemistry

R.T. Morrison, R.N. Boyd

Prantice-Hall of India Pvt. Ltd.

Text Book of In-organic Chemistry

P.L.Soni

S.Chand & Sons

Essentials of Physical Chemistry

B.S. Bahl, G.D.Tuli

S.Chand & Co.Ltd.

Industrial Chemistry Vol.I,II

R.K.Das

Asia Publishing House

Instrumental Methods of Chemical analysis

B.K. Sharma

Goel Publishing House

Instrumental Methods of Chemical analysis

G. W. Ewing

Tata-McGrawHill

Chemistry for Environmental Engineering

Sawyer

Tata-McGrawHill

Engineering Chemistry

S. G. Bhatia

CBS Publishers

A text book of Engineering Chemistry

M. M. Uppal

Khanna Publishers

Industrial Organic Chemicals

H. A. WittCoff

CBS Publishers

Text book of Engineering Chemistry

Bakshi S. P.

CBS Publishers

Organic Chemistry

Fox, Whitesell

CBS Publishers

Inorganic Chemistry

Khodakov yu

CBS Publishers

Introduction to Chemical Analysis

Braun

Tata-McGrawHill

Introduction to Instrumental Analysis

Braun

Tata-McGrawHill

Organic Chemistry

I. L. Finar

ELBS-Longman Publication

Vogel’s textbook of Practical Organic Chemistry

Vogel

ELBS-Longman Publication

Elements of Physical Chemistry

S. Glasstone

McMillan & Co.

Advanced Inorganic Chemistry

Cotton, Wilkinsons

Interscience

Quantitative Inorganic Chemistry

Rossetti

ELBS

An Introduction to Industrial Chemistry

Alan Heuton

Chapman and Hall Publishers

 

 

 

16

 

 

 

Reaction Engineering

Chemical Reaction Engineering

O. Levenspiel

Wiley Eastern Ltd.

Chemical Engineering Kinetics

J. M. Smith

McGraw Hill

The Elements of Chemical Kinetics and Reactor calculation

Fogler H. S.

Prantice Hall India

Chemical Kinetics and Reaction Mechanics

Espsensons

Tata-McGraw Hill

Reaction Kinetics for Chemical Engineering

S. M. Nallas

McGraw Hill

Fundamentals of Chemical Reaction Engineering

Holland Antony

Prantice Hall

 

 

 

 

 

 

17

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thermodynamics

Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics: Solved Problems

G.N. Pandey,

J.C. Chaudhary

Khanna Publishers

Introduction to Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics

J. M. Smith and H. C. Vanness

McGraw Hill

Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics

B. F. Dodge

McGraw Hill

Thermodynamics for Engineering

J. S. Doolittle; F. J. Hale

John Wiley and Sons

Engineering Thermodynamics with Applications

M. D. Burghardt

Harper and Row Publishers, Newyork

Engineering Thermodynamics

W. C. Reynolds, H. C. Perkin

McGraw Hill

Applied Thermodynamics for Engineers and Technologist

T. D. Eastop,

A. McConkey

Longman London Newyork

Thermodynamics for Engineering

M. A. Sand

Prantice-Hall of India Pvt. Ltd.

Fundamentals of Statistical Thermodynamics

Sonntag, Van Wylen

 

 

18

Bio-Technology

&

Genetic Engineering

Bio-Technology : The Biological Principles

M.D. Trevan, S.Boffey

Tata-McGrawHill

Biochemical Engineering Fundamentals

Bailey

Tata-McGrawHill

 

 

 

 

 

 

19

 

 

 

 

 

 

Equipment Design

Process Equipment Series Vol. I to V

M.V. Bhatia

Technomic Publishing Co.

Chemical Process Equipment Design

Vol.I to III

Ludvig

 

Process Design of Equipments Vol. I toII

S.D. Dawanda

Central Techno Publishers

Process Equipment Design

Hesse & Rushton

East West Press

Chemical Equipment Design

(Mechanical Aspects)

Bhattacharya

CBS Publishers and Distributors

Process Equipment Design

(Mechanical Aspects)

L. E. Brownell, E. H.Young

John Wiley & Sons

Chemical Process Equipment Selection & Design

Walas Stanley

Butterworths, London

Computer aided Design of Chemical Process Equipment

Bhattacharya, Narayan

New Central Book Agency

Pilot Plant Design, Erection & Installation

R.P. Palluzi

McGraw Hill

Pilot Plant and Scale up of Industrial Equipments

Jhonsonton, Thrims

McGraw Hill

Process Plant Machinery

Heiric P. Bloch

Butterworth Heineman

20

Polymer Science

Text Book of Polymer Science

F.W. Billmeyer

John Wiley & Sons

Polymer Science

Ghose

Tata-McGrawHill

 

 

 

 

21

 

 

 

Fuel

and

Fuel Processing

Elements of Fuel, Furnaces and Refractories

O. P. Gupta

Khanna Publishers

Energy for the 21st Century

P. J. Alberry, P. Lithgow,

Y. Carette and J. Dalby

Institute of Mechanical Engineers, London

Synthetic Fuel Processing

Arnold H. Pelofsky

Marker Dekker Inc.

Fuels and Fuel Technology

W. Francis and M. C. Peters

Pergemon Press

Fuel and Energy

J. H. Harker and J. R. Backhurst

Academic Press, New York

Fuels, Combustion and Furnaces

Griswold John

McGraw Hill

Combustion Engineering and Fuel Technology

A. K. Shaha

Oxford and IBH Publishing Co.

Fuel And Combustion

Sharma

Tata-McGraw Hill

New Energy Technology :

Fuels and Assessments

H. C. Hottel, J. B. Howard

Masschussets Institute of Technology

Biomass as Fuels

C. P. White, L. G. Plaskett

Academic Press London

 

 

22

 

 

Technical Dictionary

Dictionary of Chemistry

Himanshu Arora

AITBS Publishers & Distributors

Hawley’s Condensed Chemical Dictionary

Richard Lewis

Galgotia Booksource Publishers

Grant and Hackh’s Chemical dictionary

Grant

Tata-McGraw Hill

Concise Chemical Technology Dictionary

Bennett

Arnold Publishers

 

23

 

Applied Mathematics

 &

Modeling

Applied Mathematics in Chemical Engineering

H.S. Mickley, T.S. Sherwood

Tata-McGrawHill

Mathematical Methods in Chemical Engineering

Pushpawaram S.

Prentice-Hall, India

Mathematical Methods in Chemical Engineering

V. G. Jenson,

G. V. Jeffers

Academic Press

Newyork

Process Plant Simulation

B. V. Babu

Oxford University Press - Delhi

 

Other Text, References, Handbook and Encyclopedia

Text-References

(1) Unit Processes in Organic Synthesis; P.H. Groggins; Tata-McGrawhill

(2) Transport Phenomena; R.Byron Bird, W.E.Stewart; John Wiley & Sons

(3) Chemical Engineering Vol.I; J.F. Richardson, J.M. Coulson; Pergamon Press

      (Includes Fluid Flow Operation)

(4) Chemical Engineering Vol.II; J.F. Richardson, J.M. Coulson; Pergamon Press

      (Includes Particulate Solid Technology, Mechanical Operations & Mass Transfer

       Operations)

(5) Chemical Engineering Vol.III; J.F. Richardson, J.M. Coulson; Pergamon Press

      (Includes Reactor Design, Process Control, Bio-Chemical Reaction Engineering &

      Non-   Newtonian Technology)

(6) Chemical Engineering Vol.IV; J.F. Richardson, J.M. Coulson; Pergamon Press

      (Includes Solutions of Problems in Vol.I)    

(7) Chemical Engineering Vol.V; J.F. Richardson, J.M. Coulson; Pergamon Press

      (Includes Solutions of Problems in Vol.I)    

(8) Chemical Engineering Vol.VI; J.F. Richardson, J.M. Coulson; Pergamon Press

      (Includes Process & Equipment Design)

(9) Process Modeling, Simulation and control for chemical Engineers; Luyben; McGrawhill

(10) Process Modeling and Simulation; R.W. Gaikwad; Central Techno Publishers

(11) Reaction Engineering; S.D. Dawanda; Central Techno Publishers

(12) Elements of Heat Engines; R. C. Patel and C. J. Karamchandani; Acharya Book Depot

(13) Extraction Metallurgy; J.D.Gilchrist; Pergamon Press

(14) Metal Reference Book Vol.I,II; Smithels; Butterworths Scientific Publishers

(15) Chemical Metallurgy; J. J. Moore; Butterworths Scientific Publishers

(16) Ferrous and Non-Ferrous alloy Processes; R.A. Bergman; American Society for Metals

(17) Basic Heat and Mass Transfer; Mills; Irwin Press

(18) Vapor Liquid Equilibrium; E.Hala, J. Pick, V. Fried; Pergamon Press

(19) Frontiers in Chemical Reaction Engineering; Doraswamy,Mashelkar; John Wiley & Sons

(20) Distillation; M. Van Winkle; McGraw Hill

(21) Distillation : Principle and Practices; Johaan Stichlmair, James Fair; Wiley VCH

(22) Distillation Control; Shinkey; McGraw Hills

(23) Soaps and Detergents; Parsuram K. S.; Tata-McGrawHill

(24) Corrosion and Surface Technology; Varghese, Rajagopal; Tata-McGrawHill

(25) Environmental Engineering; G.N. Pandey; Tata McGraw Hill

(26) Fundamentals of Nuclear Power Reactors; O.P.Gupta; Khanna Publishers

(27) Chemical Simulation; Ajhar Hussain; D.K.Publishers

(28) Modern Chemical Engineering Vol I,II; Acrivos; Reinhold Publishing Company

(29) Fundamental of gas Dynamics; Yadav K. L.; Khanna Publishers

(30) Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer; Bergles A.E.; Elsevier

(31) Waste water treatment for Pollution control; Arceivala; Tata-McGrawHill

(32) Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer; Bennet,Myers; Tata-McGrawHill

(33) Optimization of Chemical Processes; Edgar; Tata-McGraw Hill

(34) Conceptual Design of Chemical Processes; Douglas, Tata-McGraw Hill

(35) Properties of Gases and Liquids; Reid, Poling, Pranshitz; Tata-McGraw Hill

(36) Water and Wastewater technology; Hammer M.J.; John Wiley and Sons

(37) Industrial Waste disposal; Ross R.D.; Van Norstrand Reinhold Company

(38) Pumps for Chemical Processing; J.T.Mcquire; Marshel Ketter

(39) The total synthesis of Natural Products, Apsimon, Wiley interscience

(40) Separation technology Vol I, II; Larri Ricci; McGraw Hill Publication

(41) Solving Plant Problems(Design, Installation, Operation) Willium O Keefe;

        McGraw Hill Publication

(42) Air Pollution Vol I,II,III; A.C. Stern; Academic Press

(43) Air Pollution; Bela G. Liptak; Chiton Book Company

(44) Organic Synthesis; Michall B. Smith; McGraw Hill

(45) Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer; T.Negat, A.E. Bergles; Elsevier Amstardam

(46) Recent Developments in Heat and Mass Transfer; Hartnett; McGraw Hill

(47) Environmental Pollution; Dix H. M.; John Wiley and Sons

(48) Conceptual Design of Chemical process; James Douglas; University of Massachusett

(49) Optimization of Chemical Processes; T. F. Edgar; University of Texas

(50) Conventional Energy Technology; B.B. Pandya; Tata-McGraw Hill

(51) Energy Resources and Supply; J.T. McMillan, R. Morgan, R. B. Murray;

        John Wiley & Sons

(52) Industrial Gas Utilization : Engineering Principles and Practices; R. Pritchard, J.J.Guy,

         N. E. Connor;  Bonker Publishing Co.

 

 

Handbooks

(1) A Handbook of Chemical Engineering; S.P.Subramaniam; Tata-Publishers

(2) Handbook of Industrial Chemistry Vol.I,II; K. H. Davis and F. S. Berner;

      CBS Publishers and Distributors

(3) Perry’s Chemical Engineer’s Handbook; Robbert H. Perry and Down W. Green;

      McGraw-Hill Book Co.

(4) Chemical Formulary Handbook Vol I-XI; Bennet Chemical Publishers

(5) Handbook of Chemical Engineering Calculation; Chopey; McGraw Hill

(6) Handbook of Industrial Chemicals; K.M. Shah; Multi-Tech Bombay

(7) Handbook of Analytical Instruments; Khandpur; Tata-McGrawHill

(8) Riegel’s Handbook of Industrial Chemistry; Kent J. A.; CBS Publishers and Distributors

(9) Metal Handbook; Johnson; American Society for Metals

(10) Industrial Hazards and Safety Handbook; Ralphking, John Mugid;

        ButterWorth Scientific

(11) Organic Synthesis Vol. I-IV; Gilman Blatt, Rabjohn, Baumgarter; John Wiley & Sons

 

 

Encyclopedia

(1) Encyclopedia of Chemical Processing and Design; Jhon J. McKetta,

      William A. Cunninghalm,  Marcel Dekker Inc., New York and Basel

(2) Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology; Kirk and Othmer; John Wiley and Sons, Wiley

       Interscience

(3) Ullman’s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry; VCH Publishers, Germany

(4) Encyclopedia of Material Science and Engineering; Michnel B. Bever; Pergamon Press

(5) Chemical Process Technology Encyclopedia; Coincidine; McGraw-Hill

(6) Encyclopedia of Composite materials and Components; John Wiley and Sons

(7) Encyclopedia of Fluid Mechanics Vol I-VIII; Cheremisinoff; CRC Press