Peter Harriott is F. H. Rhodes Professor of Chemical Engineering Emeritus, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. The author or coauthor of popular texts on process control and unit operations of chemical engineering, as well as more than 80 professional publications, he is a member of the American Chemical Society and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, among other organizations. He received the B.Chem.E. degree (1949) from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, and the Sc.D. degree (1952) in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

• 1. Homogeneous Kinetics 2. Kinetic Models for Heterogeneous Reactions 3. Ideal Reactors 4. Diffusion and Reaction in Porous Catalysts 5. Heat and Mass Transfer in Reactors 6. Nonideal Flow 7. Gas-Liquid Reactions 8. Multiphase Reactors 9. Fluidized-Bed Reactors 10. Novel Reactors