Chemical Process Equipment
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Comprehensive and practical guide to the selection and design of a wide range of chemical process equipment. Emphasis is placed on real-world process design and performance of equipment. Provides examples of successful applications, with numerous drawings, graphs, and tables to show the functioning and performance of the equipment. Equipment rating forms and manufacturers' questionnaires are collected to illustrate the data essential to process design. Includes a chapter on equipment cost and addresses economic concerns.
Key Features
- Practical guide to the selection and design of a wide range of chemical process equipment. Examples of successful, real-world applications are provided
- Fully revised and updated with valuable shortcut methods, rules of thumb, and equipment rating forms and manufacturers' questionnaires have been collected to demonstrate the design process. Many line drawings, graphs, and tables illustrate performance data
- Chapter 19 has been expanded to cover new information on membrane separation. Approximately 100 worked examples are included. End of chapter references also are provided
Readership
Practicing chemical engineers (e.g., process engineer, design engineer) in chemical, petroleum, pharmaceutical, and plastics industries as well as consulting engineers and company libraries. University and polytechnic (dept. of chemical engineering and continuing ed. dept.) courses (process design or design), and school libraries
Table of Contents
- List of Examples
Rules of Thumb
Introduction; Flowsheets
Process Control; Drivers for Moving Equipment
Transfer of Solids
Flow of Fluids
Fluid Transport Equipment
Heat Transfer and Heat Exchangers
Dryers and Cooling Towers
Mixing and Agitation
Solid-Liquid Separation
Disintegration, Agglomeration, and Size Separation of Particulate Solids
Distillation and Gas Absorption
Extraction and Leaching
Adsorption and Ion Exchange
Crystallization from Solutions and Melts
Chemical Reactors
Process Vessels
Other Topics, Costs of Individual Equipment
Product details
- No. of pages: 840
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Gulf Professional Publishing 2004
- Published: December 23, 2004
- Imprint: Gulf Professional Publishing
- eBook ISBN: 9780080476476
About the Authors
James R. Couper
James R. Couper, D.Sc. is Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Unviersity of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR.
Affiliations and Expertise
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA
James R. Couper
James R. Couper, D.Sc. is Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Unviersity of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR.
Affiliations and Expertise
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA
W. Roy Penney
Affiliations and Expertise
Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA
James R. Fair
Affiliations and Expertise
Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemical Engineering, UT Austin, USA
W. Roy Penney
Affiliations and Expertise
Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA
Stanley M. Walas
James R. Fair
Affiliations and Expertise
Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemical Engineering, UT Austin, USA