Excerpt from The General Principles of Chemical Engineering Design The chemical engineer is frequently described in terms of opprobrium by both the chemist on the one hand and the engineer on the other, and it is sometimes stated that the chemical engineer when in the company of chemists is an engineer, and when in the company of engineers is a chemist. This observation is not sur prising, but it simply serves to show that neither the engineer on the one hand nor the chemist on the other understand the scope of chemical engineering, and whilst it is Often said that the chemist and the engineer Speak in different languages, it might also be stated that the chemical engineer has still another mode of expression. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.