Separation Process Principles, 3rd Edition is the most comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of the major separation operations in the chemical industry. This third edition is renamed Separation Process Principles -- Chemical and Biochemical Operations to reflect the inclusion of bioseparations in several chapters. Extraordinary advances that are being made in the biological fields could significantly help solve world problems in the energy, environmental, and health areas. To help provide instruction in the important bioseparations area, a new author has been added for this edition, D. Keith Roper, who has extensive industrial and academic experience in bioseparations. Separation Process Principles, 3rd Edition provides review chapters on thermo and mass transfer, comprehensive discussion of many separation processes, photos, diagrams, and descriptions of process equipment, and challenging, realistic problems. Improved clarity, study questions, and boxed equations and examples in this 3rd edition are especially helpful for students encountering separation processes for the first time. Separation Process Principles, 3rd Edition prepares students for professional practice, and is a reference theyll value as practicing engineers.