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Title: Catalyst Design: Optimal Distribution of Catalyst in Pellets, Reactors, and Membranes (Cambridge Series in Chemical Engineering) by Massimo Morbidelli, Asterios Gavriilidis, Arvind Varma ISBN: 0-521-66059-9 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $70.00

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Summary: Gav is homogeneous
Comment: If you have read this book, I bet you are familar with sentences like "we closely follow the development, its nice." in most of the derivations.
It is ok to refer to another textbook, but the problem is that Dr Gavriilidis' citation is usually far from "closely". Grabbing parts of derivation without the necessary context is very frustrating. Don't even mention that after you read some of the originals, you will find that Dr Gavriilidis usually does not understand what the originals say himself. This is a terrible textbook. A lot of typos. A lot of misleading "derivations". Dr Gavriilidis showed a confused knowledge about catalysts, for example, in nonideal reactors. Its nice.
Most materials in this textbook were developed before 1960s using the knowledge obtained at the beginning of 1900s. It is very sad to see that after over 50 years, Dr Gavriilidis is still confused about the basic concepts. Without a clear understanding about the concepts, how can an individual correctly apply the derived results? Unfornately, the derived results seem to be the emphases of this book.
It seems that Dr Gavriilidis is trying to encourage students to "obey the rules and forget about thinking"... Ironically, Dr Gavriilidis spent quite some time in the Preface talking about "creative thinking". How can you creatively apply the results if you don't even know where they come from Dr Gavriilidis?

how they were developed and what are the limitations?
To bad that I spent my precious time reading it and ... Hope you won't...

LJ Vincent ChemEng Dept. UCL