Principles of Mass Transfer and Separation Processes About the Author BINAY K. DUTTA, Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur), is Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department of Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Malaysia. He has over thirty-five years of research and teaching experience in chemical engineering. He taught in Regional Engineering College (now NIT), Durgapur, University of Calcutta and in University of Alberta, Canada, besides working as Visiting Scientist in NIST (Boulder, Colorado), Stevens Institute of Technology (New Jersey) and NRMRL of US EPA (Cincinnati, Ohio). He was the Head of Department of Chemical Engineering (1994-1995) and the Director of Academic Staff College (2000-2005) of the University of Calcutta. Professor Dutta has published extensively in international journals in several areas including transport processes, membrane separation, reaction engineering, environmental engineering, and mathematical modelling. He also holds several patents, and has authored Heat Transfer - Principles and Applications (Prentice-Hall of India, 2001). He is a member of a number of professional institutions. Professor Dutta was the President of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers in the year 2005.