Chemical Process Equipment - Selection and Design (Revised 2nd Edition)
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Chemical Process Equipment - Selection and Design (Revised 2nd Edition)

  1. 832 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Chemical Process Equipment - Selection and Design (Revised 2nd Edition)

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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

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Table of contents

  1. Cover image
  2. Title page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Copyright
  5. Preface to the Second Edition
  6. Preface to the First Edition
  7. Contributors
  8. RULES OF THUMB: SUMMARY
  9. Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION
  10. Chapter 2: FLOWSHEETS
  11. Chapter 3: PROCESS CONTROL
  12. Chapter 4: DRIVERS FOR MOVING EQUIPMENT
  13. Chapter 5: TRANSFER OF SOLIDS
  14. Chapter 6: FLOW OF FLUIDS
  15. Chapter 7: FLUID TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT
  16. Chapter 8: HEAT TRANSFER AND HEAT EXCHANGERS
  17. Chapter 9: DRYERS AND COOLING TOWERS
  18. Chapter 10: MIXING AND AGITATION
  19. Chapter 11: SOLID–LIQUID SEPARATION
  20. Chapter 12: DISINTEGRATION, AGGLOMERATION, AND SIZE SEPARATION OF PARTICULATE SOLIDS
  21. Chapter 13: DISTILLATION AND GAS ABSORPTION
  22. Chapter 14: EXTRACTION AND LEACHING
  23. Chapter 15: ADSORPTION AND ION EXCHANGE
  24. Chapter 16: CRYSTALLIZATION FROM SOLUTIONS AND MELTS
  25. Chapter 17: CHEMICAL REACTORS
  26. Chapter 18: PROCESS VESSELS
  27. Chapter 19: MEMBRANE SEPARATIONS
  28. Chapter 20: GAS-SOLID SEPARATIONS
  29. Chapter 21: COSTS OF INDIVIDUAL EQUIPMENT
  30. Appendix A: UNITS, NOTATION, AND GENERAL DATA
  31. Appendix B: EQUIPMENT SPECIFICATION FORMS
  32. Appendix C: QUESTIONNAIRES OF EQUIPMENT SUPPLIERS
  33. Index

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