Chemical Process Design - Hardcover

Smith, Robin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0070592209 ISBN 13: 9780070592209

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US, 1995

Synopsis

This text provides a non-mathematical, step-by-step approach to the design of chemical processes, covering topics such as: distillation sequencing; economic trade-offs; safety and health considerations; flowsheet synthesis; and economic evaluation.

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Review

"...deserves a place on the library shelves of all universities, departments and companies, and of any practicing engineer involved in this wide–ranging field." (Institution of Chemical Engineers, 19th August 2005)

"...there is a need for a textbook that gives an overview of broad strategy as well as detailed design, and presents the concepts in an easily understood way that is also interesting and exciting for the process engineer. Professor Robin Smith′s new book fulfils these aims admirably..." (Chemical Engineering Research & Design, Vol 83 (A9), September 2005)

"...deserves a place on the library shelves of all universities, departments and companies, and of any practicing engineer..." (Institution of Chemical Engineers, 19th August 2005)

"...a need for a textbook that gives an overview of broad strategy...Robin Smith′s new book fulfils these aims admirably..." (Chemical Engineering Research & Design, Vol 83 (A9), September 2005)

From the Author

This book deals with the design and integration of chemical processes, emphasizing the conceptual issues that are fundamental to the creation of the process. Chemical process design requires the selection of a series of processing steps and their integration to form a complete manufacturing system. The text emphasizes both the design and selection of the steps as individual operations and their integration. Also, the process will normally operate as part of an integrated manufacturing site consisting of a number of processes serviced by a common utility system. The design of utility systems has been dealt with in the text so that the interactions between processes and the utility system and interactions between different processes through the utility system can be exploited to maximize the performance of the site as a whole.

Chemical processing should form part of a sustainable industrial activity. For chemical processing, this means that processes should use raw materials as efficiently as is economic and practicable, both to prevent the production of waste that can be environmentally harmful and to preserve the reserves of raw materials as much as possible. Processes should use as little energy as economic and practicable, both to prevent the build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels and to preserve reserves of fossil fuels. Water must also be consumed in sustainable quantities that do not cause deterioration in the quality of the water source and the long-term quantity of the reserves. Aqueous and atmospheric emissions must not be environmentally harmful, and solid waste to landfill must be avoided. Finally, all aspects of chemical processing must feature good health and safety practice.

It is important for the designer to understand the limitations of the methods used in chemical process design. The best way to understand the limitations is to understand the derivations of the equations used and the assumptions on which the equations are based. Where practical, the derivation of the design equations has been included in the text.

The book is intended to provide a practical guide to chemical process design and integration for undergraduate and postgraduate students of chemical engineering, practicing process designers and chemical engineers and applied chemists working in process development. Examples have been included throughout the text. Most of these examples do not require specialist software and can be performed on spreadsheet software. Finally, a number of exercises have been added at the end of each chapter to allow the reader to practice the calculation procedures.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0070592209
• ISBN 13: 9780070592209
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 459