
Chemical Process Equipment - Selection and Design (Revised 2nd Edition)
Selection and Design
Gulf Professional Publishing
2nd Edition
Published on 25. September 2009
Book
Hardback
832 pages
978-0-12-372506-6 (ISBN)
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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 configures plant sucessfully and profitably. It includes updated information on design methods for all standard equipment, with an emphasis on real-world process design and performance.
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Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
College/higher education
Practicing chemical engineers (e.g. process engineers, design engineers, mechanical engineers) in chemical, petroleum, pharmaceutical and plastics industries as well as consulting engineers.
Dimensions
Height: 276 mm
Width: 216 mm
Weight
2096 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-12-372506-6 (9780123725066)
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Persons
James R. Couper, D.Sc. is Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Unviersity of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR. W. Roy Penney, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, has taught graduate courses in Fluid Mixing for the last 25 years and he taught the AIChE "Industrial Fluid Mixing? course for 15 years. He spent 25 years in industry where he was involved in experimental and design work involving fluid mixing equipment. For the last 30 years he has had an academic career where he taught and researched fluid mixing technology. He consulted in the area of fluid mixing for several companies, including Chemineer, Dow Corning, Conoco, Unique Tire, Energy Transfer Partners et al. Dr. Penney is author or coauthor of over 60 papers, Patents and lectures and three books. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He has registration as a Professional Engineer in Missouri and Arkansas.
Author
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA
Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA
Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemical Engineering, UT Austin, USA
Content
Rules of Thumb1. Introduction2. Flowsheets3. Process Control4. Drivers for Moving Equipment5. Transfer of Solids6. Flow of Fluids7. Fluid Transport Equipment8. Heat Transfer and Heat Exchangers9. Dryers and Cooling Towers10. Mixing and Agitation11. Solid-Liquid Separation12. Disintegration, Agglomeration and Size Separation13. Distillation and Gas Absorption14. Extraction and Leaching15. Adsorption and Ion Exchange16. Crystallization from Solutions and Melts17. Chemical Reactors18. Process Vessels19. Membrane Separations20. Gas-Solid Separations and Miscellaneous Chemical Processes21. Costs of Individual Equipment22. Units, Notations and General Data23. Equipment SpecificationQuestionnaires of Equipment Suppliers