Cover Image

Chemical process equipment : selection and design /

Show other versions (10)

A facility is only as efficient and profitable as the equipment that is in it. This highly influential book is a powerful resource for chemical, process, or plant engineers who need to select, design or configure plant successfully and profitably. Written by some of the most experienced and well-kno...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Couper, James R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Burlington, MA ; Oxford, UK : Butterworth-Heinemann, [2010]
Edition:2nd, revised ed.
Subjects:
Chemical processes > Equipment and supplies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Rules of Thumb
  • Flowsheets
  • Process Control
  • Drivers for Moving Equipment
  • Transfer of Solids
  • Flow of Fluids
  • Fluid Transport Equipment
  • Heat Transfer and Heat Exchangers
  • Dryers and Cooling Towers
  • Mixing and Agitation
  • Solid-Liquid Separation
  • Disintegration, Agglomeration and Size Separation
  • Distillation and Gas Absorption
  • Extraction and Leaching
  • Adsorption and Ion Exchange
  • Crystallization from Solutions and Melts
  • Chemical Reactors
  • Process Vessels
  • Membrane Separations
  • Gas-Solid Separations and Miscellaneous Chemical Processes
  • Costs of Individual Equipment
  • Units, Notations and General Data
  • Equipment Specification
  • Questionnaires of Equipment Suppliers.