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Afternoon all.

This is my first post and I'm afraid it's a question:

I've benn doing a couple of problems from Coulson & Richardson's Chemical Engineering Vol 6. Is there a Solutions to book available for this? I can't seem to find it on amazon. In the blurb they credit "a couple of friends of the author for working out solutions for all the problems" but don't seem to give the book, or any information on it.

Solutions to Volume 1 and Volume 2/3 are available easily, but how do I go about finding Solutions to Volume 6?

Does such a thing exist? If so could someone point me in the direction where I could obtain such a thing?

Many Thanks, ladies and gents.

[Padmakar Katre]

Hello Foe, (sounds strange to address)
As far as I know the RC series ends at volume six. But I little baffled or more of curious to know why you need to have the solutions to the problems given in the RC-6 as the books' contents are so precisely presented. You start with the first problem and just let's know wherever you stuck.

Cheers padmakar.

It's one of extra 'problems' they give at the end of each section.

It's Pinch Technology, and the problem is the final extra problem, 3.20 I think, about a Heat Exchanger network. I've given it a bash, but there's a couple of bits I'm not sure about.

There's 2 exchangers in series, but when you split the temperature into intervals there's a couple of intervals with nothing in it, sort of spoiling the cascade of heat.

This will only make sense if you have the book, but I'm just trying to figure out whether I need to cut down the 6 streams given to 4 streams and ignore the re-boiler streams, as then there is an overlap and the cascading works fine. If I do this though, it makes it really iffy calculating the pinch.

C&R Volume 6, Page 111 onwards, though the problem I'm trying to do is at the very end of the section.