Mathematical Methods in Chemical and Biological Engineering

This book presents the major and common mathematical methods and techniques—from elementary to a moderately advanced level—that have proven to be useful and have established potential of use in shaping the model-based approach of chemical and biological engineering analysis. Applications are illustrated with copious examples. The examples and exercise problems are based on journal articles on chemical engineering, mathematical and theoretical biology, environmental science and engineering, pharmaceutics and drug release, and administration. Emphasis is placed on the background and physical understanding of the problems to prepare students for innovative applications.

Binay Kanti Dutta is a former chairman of the West Bengal Pollution Control Board, Kolkata, India. He has been involved in research and teaching in chemical engineering since 1970. He has taught at the Regional Engineering College (now the National Institute of Technology), Durgapur, India; the University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India; the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; the Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Perak, Malaysia; and the Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. He has also worked as a visiting scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado, USA; the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA; and the Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He is a former head of the Chemical Engineering Department and a former director of the Academic Staff College at the University of Calcutta. Professor Dutta has published extensively on transport processes, mathematical modeling, membranes separation, reaction engineering, and environmental engineering, and holds a number of US, European, and Malaysian patents. He is the author of Heat Transfer—Principles and Applications and Principles of Mass Transfer and Separation Processes. He also served as the 2005 president of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers.