Chemical Engineering Design: Principles, Practice and Economics of Plant and Process Design
- ISBN-10
- 0080966594
- ISBN-13
- 9780080966595
- Series
- Chemical Engineering Design
- Category
- Technology & Engineering
- Pages
- 1303
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Authors
- Gavin Towler, Ray Sinnott
Description
Part I: Process design -- Introduction to design -- Process flowsheet development -- Utilities and energy efficient design -- Process simulation -- Instrumentation and process control -- Materials of construction -- Capital cost estimating -- Estimating revenues and production costs -- Economic evaluation of projects -- Safety and loss prevention -- General site considerations -- Optimization in design -- Part II: Plant design -- Equipment selection, specification and design -- Design of pressure vessels -- Design of reactors and mixers -- Separation of fluids -- Separation columns (distillation, absorption and extraction) -- Specification and design of solids-handling equipment -- Heat transfer equipment -- Transport and storage of fluids.
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