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title: Mass Transfer
description: Mass transfer studies the transport of chemical species within physical systems. Learners understand diffusion and convective transport, enabling them to design separation processes like distillation, absorption, extraction, and membrane filtration.
category: engineering
subcategory: chemical-engineering
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# Mass Transfer

Mass transfer studies the transport of chemical species within physical systems. Learners understand diffusion and convective transport, enabling them to design separation processes like distillation, absorption, extraction, and membrane filtration.

## Available Resources

3 Books • 3 Courses • 1 Websites

## Courses

### 1. Transport Processes in the Environment (MIT 1.061)

**Author:** Heidi Nepf

Mass transport in rivers and lakes: deriving and solving differential mass conservation equations for molecular and turbulent diffusion, boundary layers, dissolution, bed-water and air-water exchange, and particle transport. Provides 84 lecture note files, problem sets and simulation videos for modeling pollutant fate in natural waters.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/1-061-transport-processes-in-the-environment-fall-2008/

**Tags:** environmental-fluid-mechanics, mass-transport, turbulent-diffusion, advection-diffusion, contaminant-transport

### 2. Advanced Mass Transfer

Learn advanced mass transfer principles & applications with Prof. Kundu. Explore key concepts in this comprehensive course.

**Difficulty:** Advanced | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://nptel.ac.in/courses/103107123

**Tags:** mass-transfer, chemical-engineering, diffusion, interphase-mass-transfer, separation-processes

### 3. Mass Transfer Operations I

Learn the fundamentals of mass transfer operations with Prof. Maity's course. Explore key principles and enhance your understanding.

**Difficulty:** Advanced | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://nptel.ac.in/courses/103107122

**Tags:** mass-transfer, chemical-engineering, diffusion, gas-absorption, separation-processes

## Books

### 1. Mass Transfer Operations

**Author:** Robert E. Treybal

Classic chemical engineering textbook on diffusion and the design of separation equipment. Covers interphase mass transfer, gas absorption, distillation, liquid extraction, drying, adsorption and humidification, so readers can size stage-wise and continuous-contact columns from first principles.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0070651892?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, engineering-manufacturing, chemical-engineering

### 2. Transport Processes and Separation Process Principles

**Author:** Christie John Geankoplis

Undergraduate chemical engineering text that treats momentum, heat and mass transport together, then applies them to unit operations: evaporation, absorption, distillation, extraction, membrane separation, crystallization and drying. Readers learn to set up balances and size separation equipment.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/9332549435?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, engineering-manufacturing, chemical-engineering

### 3. Fundamentals of Momentum, Heat, and Mass Transfer

**Author:** James Welty, Gregory L. Rorrer, David G. Foster

Engineering textbook that develops momentum, heat and mass transfer in parallel from shared conservation laws and differential equations. Covers fluid statics, viscous flow, conduction, convection, radiation, molecular diffusion and convective mass transfer, with worked problems linking the three transport analogies.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1118947460?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, engineering-manufacturing, chemical-engineering

## Websites

### 1. chemengonline.com

Website of Chemical Engineering magazine, a trade publication from Access Intelligence covering separations, heat transfer, automation, water treatment and solids handling. Useful for plant-practice news and equipment reference; much editorial content sits behind a paid membership, and some articles are sponsored.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://chemengonline.com

**Tags:** websites, engineering-manufacturing, chemical-engineering

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