Chemical engineering design: principles, practice, and economics of plant and process design
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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Towler, Gavin P. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Butterworth-Heinemann 2013
Edition:2nd ed
Subjects:
Online Access:FAW01
FAW02
Item Description:Includes index
"Chemical Engineering Design is a complete course text for students of chemical engineering. Written for the Senior Design Course, and also suitable for introduction to chemical engineering courses, it covers the basics of unit operations and the latest aspects of process design, equipment selection, plant and operating economics, safety and loss prevention. It is a textbook that students will want to keep through their undergraduate education and on into their professional lives."--Publisher's website
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
Physical Description:xvi, 1303 pages
ISBN:9780080966601
0080966608
0080966594
9780080966595

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