Industrial Chemical Process Analysis and Design

Industrial Chemical Process Analysis and Design uses chemical engineering principles to explain the transformation of basic raw materials into major chemical products. The book discusses traditional processes to create products like nitric acid, sulphuric acid, ammonia, and methanol, as well as more novel products like bioethanol and biodiesel.

Historical perspectives show how current chemical processes have developed over years or even decades to improve their yields, from the discovery of the chemical reaction or physico-chemical principle to the industrial process needed to yield commercial quantities. Starting with an introduction to process design, optimization, and safety, Martin then provides stand-alone chapters—in a case study fashion—for commercially important chemical production processes. Computational software tools like MATLAB®, Excel, and Chemcad are used throughout to aid process analysis.

• Integrates principles of chemical engineering, unit operations, and chemical reactor engineering to understand process synthesis and analysis
• Combines traditional computation and modern software tools to compare different solutions for the same problem
• Includes historical perspectives and traces the improving efficiencies of commercially important chemical production processes
• Features worked examples and end-of-chapter problems with solutions to show the application of concepts discussed in the text

Chemical engineers looking for foundational content on unit operations and industrial- scale processing of chemicals, senior and grad students studying chemical process design

1.- Introduction: Historical view of the evolution of the chemical Industry

2.-Principles of process design

2.1.-Process Engineering

2.2.-Process design principles

2.3.-Flowsheeting

2.4.-Mass and energy balances review

2.5.-Process optimization and control

2.6.-Process safety

2.7.-Sustainability in process design

2.8.-Problems

2.9.-References

3.- Air

3.1.-Introduction

3.2.-Air separation

3.3.-Atmospheric contamination

3.4.-Humid air

3.5.-Problems

3.6.- References

4.-Water

4.1.-Introduction

4.2.-Water as a raw material

4.3.-Water – energy link

4.4.-Problems

4.5.- References

5.-Synthesis gases

5.1.-Introduction. Sources of carbon: Natural gas, Crude oil and Coal

5.2.-Gas production. A) Hydrogen production. B) H2 CO mixtures. C) H2 N2 mixtures. Gasification, reforming, partial oxidation

5.3.-Syn gas purification. CO2 capture, H2S removal, (Claus process). Methanation

5.4.-Synthesis

5.5.-Problems

5.6.- References

6.-Nitric acid

6.1.-Introduction

6.2.-Production

6.3.-Emissions control

6.4.-Problems

6.5.- References

7.- Sulfuric acid

7.1.-Introduction: History of Sulfuric acid

7.2.-Pyrite roasting

7.3.-Sulfuric acid production

7.4.-Problems

7.5.- References

8.-Biomass

8.1.-Biomass types to fuels and energy: Grain, Lignocellulosic biomass, seeds, algae.

8.2.-Biomass processing to sugars, oil and syngas

8.3.-Product purification

8.4.-Power production

8.5.-Problems

8.6.- References