Chemical Engineering Design

Publisher: Butterworth Heinemann ( 05 / 2009 Dimensions: 189 mm x 246 mm# of Pages: 936Chemical Engineering Design is one of the best-known and most widely adopted texts available for students of chemical engineering. It completely covers the standard chemical engineering final year design course, and is widely used as a graduate text. The hallmarks of this renowned book have always been its scope, practical emphasis and closeness to the curriculum. That it is written by practicing chemical engineers makes it particularly popular with students who appreciate its relevance and clarity. Building on this position of strength the fifth edition covers the latest aspects of process design, operations, safety, loss prevention and equipment selection, and much more.Comprehensive in coverage, exhaustive in detail, supported by extensive problem sets at the end of each chapter, a fully worked solutions manual and a suite of valuable software tools, this is a book that students will want to keep to hand as they enter their professional life.Contents:Introduction to designFundamentals of material balancesFundamentals of energy balances (and energy utilisation)Flow-sheetingPiping and instrumentationCosting and project evaluationMaterials of constructionDesign information and dataSafety and loss preventionEquipment selection, specification and designSeparation columns (distillation, absorbtion and extraction)Heat-transfer equipmentMechanical design of process equipmentGeneral site considerationsAppendicesFull solutions manual online, accompanying design and flowsheeting software tools, plus costing templates and data sources for downloading; complete set of figures in PowerPoint format for lecture slide download by instructors