Chemical Process Equipment
Selection and Design
4th Edition
Book
Hardback
832 pages
978-0-12-386880-0 (ISBN)
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 configure plants sucessfully and profitably. It includes updated information on design methods for all standard equipment, with an emphasis on real-world process design and performance.
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 configure plants sucessfully and profitably. It includes updated information on design methods for all standard equipment, with an emphasis on real-world process design and performance.
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 configure plants 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
4th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 276 mm
Width: 216 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-12-386880-0 (9780123868800)
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Previous edition
Book
01/2005
2nd Edition
Gulf Publishing
€185.70
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Persons
James R. Couper, D.Sc. is Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Unviersity of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR.
James R. Couper, D.Sc. is Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Unviersity of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR.
James R. Couper, D.Sc. is Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Unviersity of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR.
Content
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; Distillation and Gas Absorption; Extraction and Leaching; Adsorption and Ion Exchange; Crystallization from Solutions and Melts; Chemical Reactors; Process Vessels; Membrane Separations; Gas-Solid Separations and Miscellaneous Chemical Processes; Costs of Individual Equipment; Units, Notations and General Data; Equipment Specification; Questionnaires of Equipment Suppliers