Nob Hill Publishing is pleased to announce the availability of the Paperback Edition of the Second Edition of Chemical Reactor Analysis and Design Fundamentals, by James B. Rawlings (University of California, Santa Barbara) and John G. Ekerdt (University of Texas at Austin). Designed for undergraduate and graduate chemical engineering courses, this text presents emerging topics not found in other textbooks and exploits modern computing to streamline traditional topics.
- Seamless integration of modern computing methods. 65 worked examples, 204 exercises, and 278 figures. All computational software for every example and figure is freely available.
- Particulate reactors. Chapter 10 covers particulate reactors and population balances for particulate products, including bioreactors for value-added biological products.
- Parameter estimation. A full chapter on best optimization methods for estimating model parameters from data.
- Chemical reactor synthesis. Recent results on reactor synthesis: mixing limits, CSTRs vs. PFRs with and without separation.
- Stochastic simulation. Stochastic kinetic modeling alongside traditional continuum approaches, with biological examples.
- Solution manual available to instructors who adopt the text; contact orders@nobhillpublishing.com
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664 pages • 278 illustrations • paperback
ISBN 978-0-9759377-4-7
US$55 list • 2nd Edition • © 2026
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Figures & Code
Appendix A: Computational Methods
Table of Contents
List of Examples
Ch. 1: Hepatitis B Virus Modeling
Ch. 4: Material Balance & Stochastic Simulation
Ch. 6: Ammonia Synthesis & Energy Balances
Ch. 7: Catalytic Converter Examples
Ch. 8: Mixing Reactant Feed Streams
Ch. 9: Data Analysis Case Study
Ch. 10: Fermentation Modeling
Book Award
Chemical Reactor Analysis and Design Fundamentals received an
award at the Seventh Annual University Co-op Robert W. Hamilton Book
Awards (April 2003), recognizing leading University of Texas authors.
Finalists were selected by a committee of scholars appointed by the
vice provost and dean of graduate studies at The University of Texas
at Austin.
Journal Reviews
“This book by Rawlings and Ekerdt is not a good book. It is an excellent book… The most important different thing about the Rawlings and Ekerdt is stated crisply in the preface (and it is true throughout the book): this is a book about fundamentals. Computation is used to streamline the presentation of the fundamentals, and the students get the tools to reproduce almost 100% of the results, example solutions and pictures in the book based only on concepts, principles and very few main results.”— Professors Ioannis G. Kevrekidis and Stanislav Y. Shvartsman, Princeton University. Chemical Engineering Science, Vol. 59, Issue 10, pp. 2123–2124, 2004.
“The exposition is a fine and very useful balance between classical teaching in chemical engineering supplemented with modern computational tools. The authors have succeeded in providing seamless transition between theoretical derivations and practical computational aspects. It is an excellent textbook which provides students with very strong theoretical background and enables practical application of principles by use of modern computer software.”— Professor Zelimir Kurtanjek, University of Zagreb. Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Quarterly, 16(3), 2002.
Comments
“As a graduate student, I had the good fortune of using this textbook in Professor Rawlings’s course on reactor design and modeling. That experience had a profound impact on my understanding of the topic and has shaped the way that I currently think about—and encourage my students to think about—reaction engineering. What amazes me about this textbook is its ability to connect the entire discipline to its fundamental underpinnings in a very general and accessible manner.”— Professor Jesse Q. Bond, Syracuse University
“Your textbook was a fantastic teaching tool. I really enjoyed using it and learned a great deal myself. Reaction stoichiometry is beautifully presented, as are the material balances. I’ll be teaching both the graduate and undergraduate reactor design courses next year, and plan to use the book for both courses.”— Professor James F. Rathman, The Ohio State University
“This is the sort of textbook that I really enjoy using when teaching undergraduates. The book seems to be rigorous and yet not overwhelming; there are not many chemical engineering textbooks that satisfy both of these conditions.”— Professor Robert S. Schechter, University of Texas
“I must say that this is a great book. I think the writing is very clear and effective, and the examples are really useful… I believe the website is a nice addition, usually not available with other textbooks.”— Professor Gabriele Pannocchia, University of Pisa, Italy
“The book is truly amazing. I loved its rigorous nature, generality, and careful organization. These are all rare qualities in the modern reactor engineering books.”— Denis Shcherbakov, graduate student, Princeton University