Description
A facility is only as efficient and profitable as the equipment that is in it: this highly influential book is a powerful resource for chemical, process, or plant engineers who need to select, design or configures plant sucessfully and profitably. It includes updated information on design methods for all standard equipment, with an emphasis on real-world process design and performance.- The comprehensive and influential guide to the selection and design of a wide range of chemical process equipment, used by engineers globally; Copious examples of successful applications, with supporting schematics and data to illustrate the functioning and performance of equipment- Revised edition, new material includes updated equipment cost data, liquid-solid and solid systems, and the latest information on membrane separation technology- Provides equipment rating forms and manufacturers' data, worked examples, valuable shortcut methods, rules of thumb, and equipment rating forms to demonstrate and support the design process- Heavily illustrated with many line drawings and schematics to aid understanding, graphs and tables to illustrate performance data
Table of Contents
Rules of Thumb1. Introduction2. Flowsheets3. Process Control4. Drivers for Moving Equipment5. Transfer of Solids6. Flow of Fluids7. Fluid Transport Equipment8. Heat Transfer and Heat Exchangers9. Dryers and Cooling Towers10. Mixing and Agitation11. Solid-Liquid Separation12. Disintegration, Agglomeration and Size Separation13. Distillation and Gas Absorption14. Extraction and Leaching15. Adsorption and Ion Exchange16. Crystallization from Solutions and Melts17. Chemical Reactors18. Process Vessels19. Membrane Separations20. Gas-Solid Separations and Miscellaneous Chemical Processes21. Costs of Individual Equipment22. Units, Notations and General Data23. Equipment SpecificationQuestionnaires of Equipment Suppliers
