Chemical process equipment : selection and design

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors Couper, James R.
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann, ©2010.
EditionRev. 2nd ed.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780080919720
0080919723
9780123725066
0123725062
Physical Description1 online resource (xvii, 812 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Rules of Thumb; Introduction; 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.