Chemical Engineering Design: SI edition

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Elsevier, May 15, 2009 - Technology & Engineering - 1038 pages

Chemical 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, and supported by extensive problem sets at the end of each chapter, this is a book that students will want to keep to hand as they enter their professional life.

  • The leading chemical engineering design text with over 25 years of established market leadership to back it up; an essential resource for the compulsory design project all chemical engineering students take in their final year
  • A complete and trusted teaching and learning package: the book offers a broader scope, better curriculum coverage, more extensive ancillaries and a more student-friendly approach, at a better price, than any of its competitors
  • Endorsed by the Institution of Chemical Engineers, guaranteeing wide exposure to the academic and professional market in chemical and process engineering.
 

Selected pages

Contents

Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION TO DESIGN
1
Chapter 2 FUNDAMENTALS OF MATERIAL BALANCES
51
Chapter 3 FUNDAMENTALS OF ENERGY BALANCES AND ENERGY UTILIZATION
83
Chapter 4 FLOWSHEETING
153
Chapter 5 PIPING AND INSTRUMENTATION
229
Chapter 6 COSTING AND PROJECT EVALUATION
291
Chapter 7 MATERIALS OF CONSTRUCTION
389
Chapter 8 DESIGN INFORMATION AND DATA
419
Chapter 14 GENERAL SITE CONSIDERATIONS
1067
APPENDIX A GRAPHICAL SYMBOLSFOR PIPING SYSTEMSAND PLANT
1091
APPENDIX B CORROSION CHART
1101
APPENDIX C PHYSICAL PROPERTYDATA BANK
1121
APPENDIX D CONVERSION FACTORSFOR SOME COMMONSI UNITS
1149
APPENDIX E DESIGN PROJECTS I
1153
APPENDIX F DESIGN PROJECTS II
1173
APPENDIX G EQUIPMENTSPECIFICATION DATASHEETS
1203

Chapter 9 SAFETY AND LOSSPREVENTION
473
Chapter 10 EQUIPMENT SELECTION SPECIFICATION AND DESIGN
551
Chapter 11 SEPARATION COLUMNS DISTILLATION ABSORPTION AND EXTRACTION
681
Chapter 12 HEATTRANSFER EQUIPMENT
815
Chapter 13 MECHANICAL DESIGN OF PROCESS EQUIPMENT
979
APPENDIX H TYPICAL SHELL AND TUBEHEATEXCHANGERTUBESHEET LAYOUTS
1217
APPENDIX I MATERIAL SAFETYDATA SHEET
1223
Index
1231
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About the author (2009)

Ray Sinnott's varied career, mainly in design and development, began with several major companies including Dupont and John Brown. The main areas covered within these appointments were: Gas Production and Distribution, Nuclear Energy, Elastomers and Textile fibres. After his career in industry he joined the Chemical Engineering Department, University of Wales Swansea in 1970, specialising in teaching process and plant design, and other engineering practice subjects. The first edition of Chemical Engineering Design (Coulson and Richardson’s Vol 6) was published in 1983. Subsequent editions have been published at approximately 5 year intervals.Ray Sinnott retired from full time teaching in 1995 but has maintained close contact with the engineering profession.

Gavin Towler Ph.D. is the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of UOP LLC, a Honeywell company. UOP is a leading supplier of catalysts, process technology, proprietary equipment and services to the oil, gas and petrochemical industries. In this capacity he is responsible for delivering process, catalyst and equipment innovations for UOP’s four businesses.Gavin has 20 years of broad experience of process and product design and has 65 US patents. He is co-author of “Chemical Engineering Design, a textbook on process design, and is an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University, where he teaches the senior design classes. Gavin has a B.A. and M.Eng. in chemical engineering from Cambridge University and a Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley. He is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institute of Chemical Engineers, and is a Fellow of the AIChE.

Bibliographic information

TitleChemical Engineering Design: SI edition
Chemical Engineering Series
AuthorsRay Sinnott, Gavin Towler
Edition5
PublisherElsevier, 2009
ISBN0080942490, 9780080942490
Length1038 pages
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Technology & Engineering / Chemical & Biochemical
  
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