An introductory text, emphasizing qualitative arguments, simple design methods, graphical procedures, and capabilities of major reactor types. Times is taken to discuss why certain assumptions are made, and to indicate the limitations of the treatment when applied to real situations. Coverage include homogeneous reactions in ideal reactors, flow patterns and nonideal flow, reactions catalyzed by solids, and biochemical reaction systems. This third edition contains some 400 problems, 75% of them new. Assumes background in elementary calculus and linear first-order differential equations. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.