This is a valuable reference that gives chemical and industrial engineers and technicians concise, accurate descriptions of process equipment. This handy source provides fingertip access to the details and definitions of hundreds of major types of machinery and equipment. In addition to explaining and illustrating the technology, it defines engineering terminology and includes typical applications, operating limits and variables, and overviews of design and operating principles.
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Elsevier Science & Technology
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Höhe: 235 mm
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978-0-88415-144-9 (9780884151449)
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Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff, Ph.D. (Ch.E.) is Director of Clean Technologies and Pollution Prevention Projects at PERI (Princeton Energy Resources International, LLC, Rockville, MD). He has led hundreds of pollution prevention audits and demonstrations; training programs on modern process design practices and plant safety; environmental management and product quality programs; and site assessments and remediation plans for both public and private sector clients throughout the world. He frequently serves as expert witness on personal injury and third-party property damage litigations arising from environmental catastrophes. Dr. Cheremisinoff has contributed extensively to the literature of environmental and chemical engineering as author, co-author, or editor of 150 technical reference books, including Butterworth-Heinemann's Handbook of Chemical Processing Equipment, and Green Profits.He holds advanced degrees in chemical engineering from Clarkson College of Technology."
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Director of Clean Technologies and Pollution Prevention Projects at Princeton Energy Resources International, LLC, Rockville, MD, USA
A SUBJECTS: Abrasive blast cleaning equipment. Absorption equipment. Adorption. Afterburners. Air slides (fluidized solids transport). B SUBJECTS: Bins (storing of granular and powered products). Blowdown drums. Blowers. Blow Molding. Burning pit-flares. C SUBJECTS: Catalytic cracking reactor. Centrifugal pumps. Chemical treatment. Compressors. Condensers. Cooling towers. Crystallizers. Cyclone Separators. D SUBJECTS: Dies (for blow molding). Disc bowl centrifuge. Distillation equipment. Dry cooling towers. Drying equipment. E SUBJECTS: Equipment venting and drainage. Evaporators. Extruders (for plastics and rubbers). F SUBJECTS: Fabric filters. Fans. Fan assisted hyperbolic cooling towers. Feeders and dischargers (for bulk solids handling). Flare systems. Flotation. Flow measuring devices. Fluidized beds. G SUBJECTS: Gas compression. Gravity separation. H SUBJECTS: Heat exchangers (air cooled designs). Heat exchangers (shell and tube type). Heat exchangers (spiral-plate design). I SUBJECTS: Incinerators. Injection molding. M SUBJECTS: Mechanical draft cooling towers. Mixing equipment. P SUBJECTS: Positive displacement pumps. Pressure and safety relief devices. R SUBJECTS: Rapid sand filtration. Reactors, petroleum industry. Refinery applications. Refinery equipment. Refineries, Fuels products. Refineries, fuels products with specialties. Refinery operations. Refineries, types. Refractories. Reverse osmosis. Rotary drum filters. Rubber compounding equipment. Rupture Disc. T SUBJECTS: Thermal conductivity (petroleum products). Tubular bowl centrifuges. Twin screw extruders. V SUBJECTS: Venturi scrubbers. Viscometers. Vulcanization. Index.
