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Chemical Engineering

Reaction engineering, mass transfer, transport analogies, and solids

What the section holds

The chemical discipline section. Chemical reaction engineering, mass transfer including distillation and absorption, the momentum and heat and mass-transfer analogy, solids handling, solids processing, and cost estimation.

Why it matters for your exam

This is the discipline-specific section for Chemical candidates. Everything else on the chemical specification, from thermodynamics to safety, is served by the general sections earlier in the book.

How to navigate it

Chemical candidates need both this section and the general thermodynamics and heat transfer sections, and the material genuinely is split. Mass and energy balance questions are answered from thermodynamics; separation and reactor questions from here.

Search terms that land here

reactor design | distillation | mccabe-thiele | absorption | cost index

Subsections, in handbook order

These are the headings the handbook itself uses. The page number beside each is where it begins.

  • Chemical Reaction Engineeringp237
  • Mass Transferp241
  • Transport Phenomena - Momentum, Heat, and Mass-Transfer Analogyp248
  • Solids Handlingp250
  • Solids Processingp253
  • Cost Estimationp256

Disciplines that use this section

Practise finding it

21 drill items in the corpus have this section as their answer.

Start a round

Page numbers here are read from handbook version 10.5 (seventh printing, April 2025), which runs to 502 pages. NCEES revises the handbook and page numbers move with it, which is why the drill asks which section a topic lives in rather than which page. Check the version of your own copy, downloaded free from NCEES.