Selection and Design To order this title, and for more information, click here Third Edition
By James R. Couper, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA W. Roy Penney, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA James R. Fair, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemical Engineering, UT Austin, USA Stan Walas
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 configure plant successfully and profitably.
Written by
some of the most experienced and well-known chemical and process engineers in the industry today, this information-packed volume gives
the chemical or process engineer or engineering student all of the guidelines for the design and selection of chemical process equipment.
Comprehensive and practical, its scope and emphasis on real-world process design and performance of equipment will prove invaluable for
day-to-day problem solving.
Audience
Practicing chemical engineers (e.g. process engineers, design engineers, mechanical engineers) in chemical, petroleum, pharmaceutical and plastics industries as well as consulting engineers.
Contents
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
CONTRIBUTORS
CHAPTER 0 RULES OF THUMB: SUMMARY
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
1.1. Process Design 1.2. Equipment 1.3. Categories of Engineering Practice 1.4. Sources of
Information for Process Design 1.5. Codes, Standards, and Recommended Practices 1.6. Material and Energy Balances 1.7. Economic
Balance 1.8. Design Safety Factors 1.9. Safety of Plant and Environment 1.10. Steam and Power Supply 1.11. Design Basis 1.12.
Laboratory and Pilot Plant Work References
CHAPTER 2 FLOWSHEETS
2.1. Block Flowsheets 2.2. Process Flowsheets 2.3.
Process and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&ID) 2.4. Utility Flowsheets 2.5. Drawing of Flowsheets References
CHAPTER
3 PROCESS CONTROL
3.1. The Feedback Control Loop 3.2. Control Loop Performance and Tuning Procedures 3.3. Single Stream
Control 3.4. Unit Operation Control References
CHAPTER 4 DRIVERS FOR MOVING EQUIPMENT
4.1. Motors 4.2. Steam Turbines
and Gas Expanders 4.3. Combustion Gas Turbines and Engines References
CHAPTER 5 TRANSFER OF SOLIDS
5.1. Slurry Transport 5.2.
Pneumatic Conveying 5.3. Mechanical Conveyors and Elevators 5.4. Chutes 5.5. Solids Feeders References
CHAPTER 6 FLOW
OF FLUIDS
6.1. Properties and Units 6.2. Energy Balance of a Flowing Fluid 6.3. Liquids 6.4. Pipeline Networks 6.5.
Optimum Pipe Diameter 6.6. Non-Newtonian Fluids 6.7. Gases 6.8. Liquid-Gas Flow in Pipelines 6.9. Granular and Packed Beds 6.10.
Gas-Solid Transfer 6.11. Fluidization of Beds of Particles with Gases References
CHAPTER 7 FLUID TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT
7.1. Piping 7.2. Pump Theory 7.3. Pump Characteristics 7.4. Criteria for Selection of Pumps 7.5. Equipment for Gas Transport 7.6.
Theory and Calculations of Gas Compression 7.7. Ejector and Vacuum Systems References
CHAPTER 8 HEAT TRANSFER AND HEAT EXCHANGERS
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8.1. Conduction of Heat 8.2. Mean Temperature Difference 8.3. Heat Transfer Coefficients 8.4. Data of Heat Transfer
Coefficients 8.5. Pressure Drop in Heat Exchangers 8.6. Types of Heat Exchangers 8.7. Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers 8.8.
Condensers 8.9. Reboilers 8.10. Evaporators 8.11. Fired Heaters 8.12. Insulation of Equipment 8.13. Refrigeration References
CHAPTER 9 DRYERS AND COOLING TOWERS
9.1. Interaction of Air and Water 9.2. Rate of Drying 9.3. Classification and General
Characteristics of Dryers 9.4. Batch Dryers 9.5. Continuous Tray and Conveyor Belt Dryers 9.6. Rotary Cylindrical Dryers 9.7.
Drum Dryers for Solutions and Slurries 9.8. Pneumatic Conveying Dryers 9.9. Flash and Ring Dryers 9.10. Fluidized Bed Dryers 9.11.
Spray Dryers 9.12. Cooling Towers References
CHAPTER 10 MIXING AND AGITATION
10.1. A Basic Stirred Tank Design 10.2.
Vessel Flow Patterns 10.3. Agitator Power Requirements 10.4. Impeller Pumping 10.5. Tank Blending 10.6. Heat Transfer 10.7.
Vortex Depth 10.8. Solid Suspension 10.9. Solids Dissolving 10.10. Gas-Liquid Dispersions 10.11. Liquid-Liquid (L-L) Dispersions 10.12.
Pipeline Mixers 10.13. Compartmented Columns 10.14. Fast Competitive/Consecutive (C/C) Reactions 10.15. Scale-Up Nomenclature References
CHAPTER 11 SOLID-LIQUID SEPARATION
11.1. Processes and Equipment 11.2. Liquid-Particle Characteristics 11.3. Theory of
Filtration 11.4. Resistance to Filtration 11.5. Thickening and Clarifying 11.6. Laboratory Testing and Scale-Up 11.7. Illustrations
of Equipment 11.8. Applications and Performance of Equipment References
CHAPTER 12 DISINTEGRATION, AGGLOMERATION, AND SIZE
SEPARATION OF PARTICULATE SOLIDS
12.1. Screening 12.2. Commercial Classification with Streams of Air or Water 12.3. Size
Reduction 12.4. Equipment for Size Reduction 12.5. Particle Size Enlargement (Agglomeration) References
CHAPTER 13 DISTILLATION
AND GAS ABSORPTION
13.1. Vapor-Liquid Equilibria 13.2. Single-Stage Flash Calculations 13.3. Evaporation or Simple Distillation 13.4.
Binary Distillation 13.5. Batch Distillation 13.6. Multicomponent Separation: General Considerations 13.7. Estimation of Reflux
and Number of Trays (Fenske-Underwood-Gilliland Method) 13.8. Absorption Factor Shortcut Method of Edmister 13.9. Separations in
Packed Towers 13.10. Basis for Computer Evaluation of Multicomponent Separations 13.11. Special Kinds of Distillation Processes 13.12.
Tray Towers 13.13. Packed Towers 13.14. Efficiencies of Trays and Packings References
CHAPTER 14 EXTRACTION AND LEACHING
14.1. Introduction 14.2. Equilibrium Relations 14.3. Calculation of Stage Requirements 14.4. Countercurrent Operation 14.5.
Leaching of Solids 14.6. Numerical Calculation of Multicomponent Extraction 14.7. Equipment for Extraction 14.8. Pilot Testing References
CHAPTER 15 ADSORPTION AND ION EXCHANGE
15.1. Adsorption Equilibria 15.2. Ion Exchange Equilibria 15.3. Adsorption Behavior
in Packed Beds 15.4. Gas Adsorption Cycles 15.5. Adsorption Design and Operating Practices 15.6. Parametric Pumping 15.7.
Ion Exchange Design and Operating Practices 15.8. Production Scale Chromatography 15.9. Equipment and Processes References
CHAPTER 16 CRYSTALLIZATION FROM SOLUTIONS AND MELTS
16.1. Some General Crystallization Concepts 16.2. Importance of the
Solubility Curve in Crystallizer Design 16.3. Solubilities and Equilibria 16.4. Crystal Size Distribution 16.5. The Process
of Crystallization 16.6. The Ideal Stirred Tank 16.7. Kinds of Crystallizers 16.8. Melt Crystallization and Purification References
CHAPTER 17 CHEMICAL REACTORS
17.1. Design Basis and Space Velocity 17.2. Rate Equations and Operating Modes 17.3. Material
and Energy Balances of Reactors 17.4. Nonideal Flow Patterns 17.5. Selection of Catalysts 17.6. Types and Examples of Reactors 17.7.
Heat Transfer in Reactors 17.8. Classes of Reaction Processes and Their Equipment References
CHAPTER 18 PROCESS VESSELS
18.1. Drums 18.2. Fractionator Reflux Drums 18.3. Liquid-Liquid Separators 18.4. Gas-Liquid Separators 18.5. Storage Tanks 18.6.
Mechanical Design of Process Vessels 18.7. Bins and Hoppers References
CHAPTER 19 MEMBRANE SEPARATIONS
19.1. Membrane
Processes 19.2. Liquid-Phase Separations 19.3. Gas Permeation 19.4. Membrane Materials and Applications 19.5. Membrane Cells
and Equipment Configurations 19.6. Industrial Applications 19.7. Subquality Natural Gas 19.8. The Enhancement of Separation 19.9.
Permeability Units 19.10. Derivations and Calculations for Single-Stage Membrane Separations References
CHAPTER 20 GAS-SOLID
SEPARATIONS
20.1. Gas-Solid Separations 20.2. Foam Separation and Froth Flotation 20.3. Sublimation and Freeze Drying 20.4.
Separations by Thermal Diffusion 20.5. Electrochemical Synthesis 20.6. Fermentation Processing References
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