Working Guide to Process Equipment, Third Edition - Hardcover

Lieberman, Norman; Lieberman, Elizabeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0071496742 ISBN 13: 9780071496742

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2008

Synopsis

A reference for pinpointing and repairing problems in chemical process equipment. It focuses on the inner workings of continuous process equipment for a range of industries, including such major ones as chemical, refining, pharmaceutical, and fertilizer. It includes diagnostic tips, practical examples, and, worked-out calculations.

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From the Back Cover

Here's the Key to How Process Equipment Works and How to Keep It Working At Its Best Process plant operators, engineers, managers, and other personnel need to understand in a basic but simple way how process equipment works. At last, there's a comprehensive, practical reference that sheds light on the inner workings of continuous process equipment for a broad range of technicians and industries, including plant operators and supervisors and service engineers in chemical, refining, pharmaceutical, and fertilizer plants, and other continuous process facilities. Based on the authors' extensive experience in the field, A Working Guide to Process Equipment carefully and clearly explains all the basic technical issues that you need to know to trouble-shoot even the thorniest process equipment problems. Here, in one resource book, is a wealth of useful diagnostic tips, worked-out calculations, practical examples, and informative illustrations to help you quickly pinpoint trouble and repair typical malfunctions in: Trayed and packed distillation towers; Natural and forced reboilers; Partial and total condensers; Steam systems and deaerators; Vaccuum systems; Fired heaters; Shell and tube heat exchangers; Centrifugal compressors; Gas turbines and reciprocating engines; Centrifugal pumps and motor drivers. In no time at all, this essential problem-solving manual will become your most trusted on-the-job tool for dealing effectively wtih costly equipment malfunctions.

Synopsis

This is the industry's "go-to" reference for pinpointing and repairing problems in chemical process equipment - updated with new equipment categories. The Third Edition of what has become a classic in the field thoroughly explains everything you need to know to fully understand how process equipment works and effectively troubleshoot even the most complex process equipment problem. Drawing upon their decades of experience, the authors shed light on the inner workings of continuous process equipment for a broad range of industries, including such major ones as chemical, refining, pharmaceutical, and fertilizer. They include a wealth of diagnostic tips, practical examples, worked-out calculations, and up-to date illustrations allowing readers to quickly and easily pinpoint and repair malfunctions.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0071496742
• ISBN 13: 9780071496742
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 624