A very good treatise on distillation .And a gold mine of data one can outsource to design a distillation column from the very basics.More than 1000 illustrations, charts,tables,plus 18 nos. of design examples do justice to the text presented.The language is simple & easy to follow.It is a must for chemical engineers.

Nowhere I've found such an extensive coverage on distillation engineering hardware. It is a useful book to both undergraduate Chemical & Mechanical Engineering students as

well as professional engineers and certainly a goldmine of proprietary data on distillation hardware. Numerous charts and illustrations (both B & W and color)of column

internals plus 18 Nos. of Design Examples do justice to this enormous treatise . The Chapter on Troubleshooting is simply outstanding!

An exhaustive treatise on distillation hardware. A reliable source book on distillation column design.It gives almost anything and everything of trays,packed bed plus internals.Troubleshooting is a very useful addition

Distillation Engineering Handbook by Prof. P.Chattopadhyay is a long-awaited treatise on distillation hardware.
It contains almost anything & everything one needs to design a distillation column---be it a packed-bed or trayed column.

Pros:
1. Exhaustive treatise
2. Systematic layout
3. Huge amount of proprietary data including photographs, charts, line diagrams and tables
4. A number of proprietary design methods

Cons:
1. Some Companies are non-existent now. So, better, their data presented...

A very good source book on Distillation. It contains almost anything one needs to design a tray or a packed-bed used in Distillation Engineering.
The reader, whether an undergraduate student of Chemical Engineering or a professional engineer, will find the book a useful guide to keep by.

Never came upon any book on Distillation with such a massive coverage. It is an exhaustive treatise on Distillation.Starting from very basics, it delves deeper into the design of Distillation tower and its internals, including trays and packings. The chapter on trouble shooting is very helpful from the practical point of view.A very good source book.