A working guide to process equipment /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Lieberman, Norman P. (Author), Lieberman, Elizabeth T. (Author)
Corporate Author:	McGraw-Hill Companies
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago, Ill. : McGraw-Hill Education LLC., c2014.
Edition:	4th ed.
Series:	McGraw-Hill's AccessEngineering.
Subjects:	Chemical engineering > Equipment and supplies. Production engineering > Equipment and supplies. Chemical plants > Equipment and supplies. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Chemical & Biochemical. SCIENCE > Chemistry > Industrial & Technical. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Description
Abstract:	Applicable to a broad range of technicians and industries and fully updated throughout, A Working Guide to Process Equipment, Fourth Edition, explains how to diagnose, troubleshoot, and correct problems with chemical and petroleum refining process equipment. Nine new chapters cover: ? Tray design details ? Shell-and-tube heat exchanger design details ? Relief valve system design ? Vapor lock and exchanger flooding in steam systems ? Steam generation operating and design details ? Wastewater strippers ? Thermodynamics-how it applies to process equipment ? Centrifugal pumps-reducing seal and bearing failures ? Hand calculations for distillation towers ? Vapor-liquid equilibrium, absorption, and stripping calculations Filled with examples and illustrations, this practical resource demonstrates how theory applies to solving real-world plant operation problems. Selected hand calculation methods are also provided.
Item Description:	"Fourth edition"-- Cover Previous edition: 2008. Previous edition: published as by Norman P. Lieberman and Elizabeth T. Lieberman. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xxix, 591 pages) : illustrations, figs., tables. Also issued in print and PDF version.
ISBN:	9780071828062 (print) 0071828060 (print) 9780071828123 (ebook) 0071828125 (ebook)