Specifically designed to accommodate students with different learning styles, this conceptually based text gives students a solid foundation in engineering and chemical thermodynamics. Conceptual development, worked-out examples and numerous end-of-chapter problems promote deep learning of thermodynamics and teach students how to apply thermodynamics to real-world engineering problems.

The text features a logically consistent development where each new concept is introduced in the context of a framework laid down previously. The text's treatment of the solid phase, including solid-solid-liquid phase diagrams and defect equilibrium, provides content that is becoming increasingly important to chemical engineering graduates. Other coverage includes applications of the first and second laws of thermodynamics, intermolecular interactions and equations of state, thermodynamic property relations, the thermodynamics of mixtures, phase equilibrium and chemical reaction equilibrium.