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The most complete guide of its kind, this is the favored handbook for chemical and process engineers who need a reliable and authoritative solution to their practical on the job problems. Includes all new material on new processing sectors, include biopharmaceuticals. The text is comprehensively revised and updated with new data and formulas. Rules of Thumb for Chemical Engineers solves process design problems quickly, accurately and safely, with hundreds of common sense techniques, shortcuts and calculations. Key features; Rules of Thumb for Chemical Engineers brings together solutions, information and work-arounds that engineers in the process industry need to get their job done. New material in the Fifth Edition includes physical properties for proprietary materials, six new chapters, including pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical sector heuristics, process design with simulation software, and guidelines for hazardous materials and processes. Now includes SI units throughout alongside imperial, and now accompanied by online calculation tools New to this edition; New chapter on biopharmaceutical systems New chapter on closed-loop heat transfer systems Extensively rewritten chapters on fluid flow, fractionation, heat exchangers, pumps, compressors, safety, and controls. Latest information on packed columns and structured packings Excel workbooks, with Visual Basic for Applications function subroutines, that solve many of the problems in the book. Fully updated references Rules of Thumb for Chemical Engineers brings together solutions, information and work-arounds that engineers in the process industry need to get their job done. New material in the Fifth Edition includes physical properties for proprietary materials, six new chapters, including pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical sector heuristics, process design with simulation software, and guidelines for hazardous materials and processes Now includes SI units throughout alongside imperial, and now accompanied by online calculation tools and a searchable Rules of Thumb library.
Front Cover; Dedication; Rules of Thumb for Chemical Engineers; Copyright; Contents; Publisher's Note; Chapter 1 -- Fluid Flow; Introduction; Data Required; General Procedure; Recommended Velocity; Equivalent Length; Shortcut Equation for Pressure Drop Due to Friction; Reynolds Number; Friction Factor; Incompressible Flow; Compressible Flow -- Isothermal; Compressible Flow -- Transmission Equations; Compressible Flow -- Adiabatic; Visual Basic Subroutines for Pressure Drop Due to Friction; Orifices; Control Valves; Partially Full Horizontal Pipes; Two-Phase Flow; Nomenclature; References.
Chapter 2 -- Heat ExchangersIntroduction; TEMA; Selection Guides; Design Recommendations; Process Data; Heat Exchanger Configuration and Area; Determining the LMTD Configuration Correction Factor; Tubeside Pressure Drop; Tube Side Film Coefficient; Shell Diameter; Ideal Shell Side Film Coefficient; Shell Side Film Coefficient Correction Factors; Overall Heat Transfer Coefficient; Shell Side Pressure Drop; Heat Transfer Coefficients; Fouling Resistances; Installation Recommendations; Thermal Conductivity of Metals; Vacuum Condensers; Air-cooled Heat Exchangers: Forced vs. Induced Draft.
Air-cooled Heat Exchangers: Air DataAir-cooled Heat Exchangers: Thermal Design; Air-cooled Heat Exchangers: Pressure Drop, Air Side; Air-cooled Heat Exchangers: Temperature Control; Nomenclature; References; Chapter 3 -- Fractionators; Introduction; Separation Factor; Relative Volatility; Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium; Activity Coefficients; Establishing the Column Pressure; Minimum Reflux -- Binary; Minimum Reflux-Multicomponent; Minimum Stages; Relationship of Theoretical Stages to Reflux Ratio; Feed Location; Reflux-to-Feed Ratio; Actual Trays; Graphical Methods -- The McCabe-Thiele Diagram.
Plotting With Murphree Tray EfficiencyTray Efficiency Rules of Thumb; Using the McCabe-Thiele Plot; Column Internals -- Trays and Packing; Column Tray Spacing; Tower Diameter -- Souders-Brown Correlation; Pressure Drop -- Trays; Control Schemes; Reboilers; Packed Columns; Nomenclature; References; Chapter 4 -- Absorbers; Introduction; Hydrocarbon Absorber Design; Inorganic Absorbers; Packing Height for Mass Transfer in Packed Columns; Overall Mass Transfer Coefficient; Nomenclature; References; Chapter 5 -- Pumps; Introduction; Pump Types and Selection; Pump Testing; System Curves.
Operating Point and Pump SelectionFlow Control with Throttling Valve; Charting Control Characteristics; Flow Control by Changing the Pump Speed; Affinity Laws; Power; Minimum Flow; Temperature Rise; Suction System NPSH Available; Suction System NPSH for Studies; Multiple Centrifugal Pumps in Parallel or in Series; Nomenclature; References; Chapter 6 -- Fans, Blowers, and Compressors; Introduction; Rules of Thumb; Fans; Fan Noise; Blower Types; Compressor Types; Surge Control; Performance Calculations; Affinity Laws; Power -- Fan; Power -- Reciprocating Compressor; Power -- Centrifugal Compressor.
Title from publisher's Web site (ScienceDirect, viewed on June 25, 2012).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Branan's Rules of Thumb for Chemical Engineers