Rules of Thumb for Chemical Engineers

Rules of Thumb for Chemical Engineers, Sixth Edition, is the most complete guide for chemical and process engineers who need reliable and authoritative solutions to on-the-job problems. The text is comprehensively revised and updated with new data and formulas. The book helps solve process design problems quickly, accurately and safely, with hundreds of common sense techniques, shortcuts and calculations. Its concise sections detail the steps needed to answer critical design questions and challenges. The book discusses physical properties for proprietary materials, pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical sector heuristics, process design, closed-loop heat transfer systems, heat exchangers, packed columns and structured packings.

This book will help you: save time you no longer have to spend on theory or derivations; improve accuracy by exploiting well tested and accepted methods culled from industry experts; and save money by reducing reliance on consultants. The book brings together solutions, information and work-arounds from engineers in the process industry.

• Includes new chapters on biotechnology and filtration
• Incorporates additional tables with typical values and new calculations
• Features supporting data for selecting and specifying heat transfer equipment

Chemical and Process Engineers, Industrial and Plant Engineers, Project Managers, Technical Services Engineers

1. Fluid Flow
   2. Heat Exchangers
   3. Fractionators
   4. Absorbers
   5. Pumps
   6. Fans, Blowers and Compressors
   7. Drivers
   8. Vessels
   9. Boilers
   10. Cooling Towers
   11. Refrigeration
   12. Closed Loop Heat Transfer Systems
   13. Biopharmaceutical Systems
   14. Biotechnology
   15. Vacuum Systems
   16. Pneumatic Conveying
   17. Lending and Agitation
   18. Filtration
   19. Process Evaluation
   20. Reliability
   21. Metallurgy
   22. Safety
   23. Controls
   24. Troubleshooting
   25. Startup
   26. Energy Conservation
   27. Process Modeling
   28. Conversion Factors and Constants
   29. Properties