International Student Edition; paperback format issued for sale outside the United States; textually equivalent to the US hardcover fourth edition (ISBN 9780070587038). The International Student Edition carries a lower price and a different ISBN but identical content and pagination.

The fourth edition of the pre-eminent introductory textbook for chemical engineering thermodynamics provides comprehensive coverage from a chemical engineering perspective. The text alternates between the development of thermodynamic principles and their correlation and application to chemical processes. Coverage includes the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics, volumetric properties of pure fluids and equations of state, heat effects, thermodynamic properties of fluids, flow processes, power and refrigeration cycles, vapour-liquid equilibrium, solution thermodynamics, chemical-reaction equilibria, and topics in applied thermodynamics. Written in a clear, logically organised manner with an abundance of worked examples, realistic problems, and illustrations. This two-author fourth edition (Smith and Van Ness only) predates the addition of Michael M. Abbott as the third co-author in the fifth edition (1996).