Alan Lane

Welcome! I am so glad you dropped by to use these supplementary resources for my new textbook "Separation Process Essentials" published by CRC Press. All Excel spreadsheets, YouTube tutorials, practice problems, and much more, are found here.

Please feel free to email me feedback and questions (alane@eng.ua.edu). I will try to answer every message. In particular, I will appreciate your help in identifying mistakes. I encourage you to check the errata section of this site and pencil in your book the corrections listed there. Best wishes for the 2022 fall semester. Stay safe, stay healthy! Please get vaccinated!

If you are a teacher adopting my book for the first time, please let me know. The book was published in the late fall of 2019. This academic year will be the first time most of you will have a chance to adopt it. I will be very happy to work with you to make your semester successful and to improve the book and web site. I can even hook you up with solutions to selected problems!

(NOTE: This web site is always under construction. If a spreadsheet, tutorial, or set of practice problems is missing, please know that I am working on these. Let me know if something critical is coming up and I will try to expedite it's inclusion.)

From the mind of Dr. Doobie
An occasional editorial and miscellaneous nonsense.

A stand up comedy routine by Matt Parker on ... spreadsheets?

What's the deal with spreadsheets?

Take a quick tour of the glass distillation column for ethanol and water in the UA unit operations lab.

How about a profile video some of my students did way back in 2007?