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Mass-Transfer Operations, 3rd Edition is a recent version of the book written by Robert Ewald Treybal. It is a reference book aimed to help those professionals and students keen to gain deeper knowledge on this subject. The author has designed this book in such a way that it is suitable for course study or self-study. The techniques and principles of equipment design for the mass-transfer operations of chemical engineering are covered in Mass-Transfer Operations, 3rd Edition. The book is divided into several parts; each part dealing with the main subject of mass-transfer operations. The first part deals with diffusion and mass transfer, where the author talks about molecular diffusion in fluids, coefficients of mass-transfer, diffusion in solids, and interphase mass transfer. The second part covers the gas-liquid operations, which deals with the equipment used, humidification operations, gas absorption, and distillation. The third part is completely dedicated to liquid extraction, and the last part explores solid-fluid operations. In the last section, the author describes adsorption and ion exchange, drying, and leaching.