Front Cover -- Fluid Flow for Chemical Engineers -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of examples -- Preface to the second edition -- Nomenclature -- Chaptre 1. Fluids in motion -- 1.1 Units and dimensions -- 1.2 Description of fluids and fluid flow -- 1.3 Types of flow -- 1.4 Conservation of mass -- 1.5 Energy relationships and the Bernoulli equation -- 1.6 Momentum of a flowing fluid -- 1.7 Stress in fluids -- 1.8 Sign conventions for stress -- 1.9 Stress components -- 1.10 Volumetric flow rate and average velocity in a pipe -- 1.11 Momentum transfer in laminar flow -- 1.12 Non-Newtonian behaviour -- 1.13 Turbulence and boundary layers -- Chapter 2. Flow of incompressible Newtonian fluids in pipes and channels -- 2.1 Reynolds number and flow patterns in pipes and tubes -- 2.2 Shear stress in a pipe -- 2.3 Friction factor and pressure drop -- 2.4 Pressure drop in fittings and curved pipes -- 2.5 Equivalent diameter for non-circular pipes -- 2.6 Velocity profile for laminar Newtonian flow in a pipe -- 2.7 Kinetic energy in laminar flow -- 2.8 Velocity distribution for turbulent flow in a pipe -- 2.9 Universal velocity distribution for turbulent flow in a pipe -- 2.10 Flow in open channels -- Chapter 3. Flow of incompressible non-Newtonian fluids in pipes -- 3.1 Elementary viscometry -- 3.2 Rabinowitsch-Mooney equation -- 3.3 Calculation of flow rate-pressure drop relationship for laminar flow using t-y data -- 3.4 Wall shear stress-flow characteristic curves and scale-up for laminar flow -- 3.5 Generalized Reynolds number for flow in pipes -- 3.6 Turbulent flow of inelastic non-Newtonian fluids in pipes -- 3.7 Power law fluids -- 3.8 Pressure drop for Bingham plastics in laminar flow -- 3.9 Laminar flow of concentrated suspensions and apparent slip at the pipe wall -- 3.10 Viscoelasticity -- Chapter 4. Pumping of liquids -- 4.1 Pumps and pumping.

4.2 System heads -- 4.3 Centrifugal pumps -- 4.4 Centrifugal pump relations -- 4.5 Centrifugal pumps in series and in parallel -- 4.6 Positive displacement pumps -- 4.7 Pumping efficiencies -- 4.8 Factors in pump selection -- Chapter 5. Mixing of liquids in tanks -- 5.1 Mixers and mixing -- 5.2 Small blade high speed agitators -- 5.3 Large blade low speed agitators -- 5.4 Dimensionless groups for mixing -- 5.5 Power curves -- 5.6 Scale-up of liquid mixing systems -- 5.7 The purging of stirred tank systems -- Chapter 6. Flow of compressible fluids in conduits -- 6.1 Energy relationships -- 6.2 Equations of state -- 6.3 Isothermal flow of an ideal gas in a horizontal pipe -- 6.4 Non-isothermal flow of an ideal gas in a horizontal pipe -- 6.5 Adiabatic flow of an ideal gas in a horizontal pipe -- 6.6 Speed of sound in a fluid -- 6.7 Maximum flow rate in a pipe of constant cross-sectional area -- 6.8 Adiabatic stagnation temperature for an ideal gas -- 6.9 Gas compression and compressors -- 6.10 Compressible flow through nozzles and constrictions -- Chapter 7. Gas-liquid two-phase flow -- 7.1 Flow patterns and flow regime maps -- 7.2 Momentum equation for two-phase flow -- 7.3 Flow in bubble columns -- 7.4 Slug flow in vertical tubes -- 7.5 The homogeneous model for two-phase flow -- 7.6 Two-phase multiplier -- 7.7 Separated flow models -- Chapter 8. Flow measurement -- 8.1 Flowmeters and flow measurement -- 8.2 Head flowmeters in closed conduits -- 8.3 Head flowmeters in open conduits -- 8.4 Mechanical and electromagnetic flowmeters -- 8.5 Scale errors in flow measurement -- Chapter 9. Fluid motion in the presence of solid particles -- 9.1 Relative motion between a fluid and a single particle -- 9.2 Relative motion between a fluid and a concentration particles -- 9.3 Fluid flow through packed beds -- 9.4 Fluidization -- 9.5 Slurry transport.

9.6 Filtration -- Chapter 10. Introduction to unsteady flow -- 10.1 Quasi-steady flow -- 10.2 Incremental calculation: time to discharge an ideal gas from a tank -- 10.3 Time for a solid spherical particle to reach 99 per cent its terminal velocity when falling from rest in the Stokes regime -- 10.4 Suddenly accelerated plate in a Newtonian fluid -- 10.5 Pressure surge in pipelines -- Appendix I. The Navier-Stokes equations -- Appendix II. Further problems -- Answers to problems -- Conversion factors -- Friction factor charts -- Index.