A Practical Approach to Chemical Engineering for Non-Chemical Engineers
- 1st Edition - September 19, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Author: Moe Toghraei
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 3 9 0 0 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 4 2 1 5 - 5
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Request a sales quoteA Practical Approach to Chemical Engineering for Non-Chemical Engineers is aimed at people who are dealing with chemical engineers or those who are involved in chemical processing plants. The book demystifies complicated chemical engineering concepts through daily life examples and analogies. It contains many illustrations and tables that facilitate quick and in-depth understanding of the concepts handled in the book. By studying this book, practicing engineers (non-chemical), professionals, technicians and other skilled workers will gain a deeper understanding of what chemical engineers say and ask for.
The book is also useful for engineering students who plan to get into chemical engineering and want to know more on the topic and any related jargon.
- Provides numerous graphs, images, sketches, tables, help better understanding of concepts in a visual way
- Describes complicated chemical engineering concepts by daily life examples and analogies, rather than by formula
- Includes a virtual tour of an imaginary process plant
- Explains the majority of units in chemical engineering
Practicing engineers, professionals, and technicians collaborating with chemical engineers in their daily workspace. Students in engineering who wanted to get into chemical engineering program at universities
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part 1: Components of chemical process industries
- Part 1. Components of chemical process industries
- Chapter 1. Equipment and pipes (applications)
- Abstract
- 1.1 Fluid conductors: pipes, tubes, ducts
- 1.2 Pipe appurtenances: fittings and valves
- 1.3 Fluid movers: pumps and compressors
- 1.4 Containers: tanks, vessels
- 1.5 Heat transfer equipment: heat exchangers and furnaces
- 1.6 Unit operations and unit processes
- Chapter 2. Utilities
- Abstract
- 2.1 Utilities in process plants
- 2.2 Utility-feeds and utility-wastes: what are our choices?
- 2.3 Role of utilities in plants
- 2.4 Different utilities in plants
- 2.5 Big picture of utility journey
- 2.6 Utility networks and users
- Chapter 3. Instrumentation and control
- Abstract
- 3.1 Control in process industries
- 3.2 Three layers of integrated control and safety system: BPCS, alarm, and SIS
- 3.3 How BPCS works: control loop, duty, and components
- 3.4 What is a “good” control?
- 3.5 How can we implement a “good” control?
- 3.6 Control strategies
- 3.7 Tuning
- 3.8 Control architecture
- 3.9 ICSS hardware
- 3.10 Primary elements: sensors
- 3.11 BPCS: duty and components
- 3.12 Alarm system: duty and components
- 3.13 Safety instrumented functions: duty and components
- 3.14 “Middle elements” and communication routes
- Part 2: Behind the scenes of chemical process plants
- Part 2. Behind the scenes of chemical process plants
- Chapter 4. Summary of process engineering deliverables
- Abstract
- 4.1 Pictorial diagrams of process plants: block flow diagram, process flow diagram, and piping and instrumentation diagram
- 4.2 Block flow diagram
- 4.3 Process flow diagram
- 4.4 Piping and instrumentation diagram
- 4.5 Plot plan
- 4.6 Heat and material balance table
- 4.7 Process description
- 4.8 Process control narratives
- 4.9 Equipment datasheets
- 4.10 Instrument datasheets
- 4.11 Utility consumption table
- 4.12 Chemical consumption table
- 4.13 Alarm set point table
- 4.14 Shutdown key table
- 4.15 “Process design criteria” and the “process design basis”
- Chapter 5. Concepts of materials
- Abstract
- 5.1 How much matters?
- 5.2 Matter’s features
- 5.3 Conditions affecting matter’s features
- 5.4 States of matters: solid, liquid, and gas
- 5.5 Equation of states
- 5.6 Material properties
- 5.7 Mixtures
- 5.8 Properties of flowable solids
- Chapter 6. Concepts of process equipment
- Abstract
- 6.1 Containers: tanks and vessels
- 6.2 Fluid conductors: pipes, tubes, ducts
- 6.3 Fluid movers: pumps and compressors
- 6.4 Heat transfer equipment: heat exchangers, fired heaters
- Chapter 7. Principles of material change
- Abstract
- 7.1 Unit operations versus process units
- 7.2 Different types of physical changes
- 7.3 Symbolic representation of conversions
- 7.4 Quantitative goal of conversions
- 7.5 Possibility and speed of conversions
- 7.6 Possibility of conversions for physical and chemical conversions
- 7.7 Speed of conversion for physical and chemical conversions
- 7.8 Kinetics/mass transfer versus thermodynamics
- 7.9 Speed of multistep conversions
- 7.10 Conversion containers
- Part 3: Unit operations and process units
- Part 3. Unit operations and process units
- Chapter 8. Fundamentals of physical conversions
- Abstract
- 8.1 Different types of physical conversions
- 8.2 Understanding nonpure materials: suspensions and solutions
- 8.3 Blending as physical conversion
- 8.4 Separations
- 8.5 Three aspects of designs
- 8.6 Manipulating conversion units
- 8.7 What will be seen in chapters 10 and 11?
- Chapter 9. Unit operations: blending
- Abstract
- 9.1 Suspension types
- 9.2 What is needed for a good mixing
- 9.3 Agitation power and duration
- 9.4 Even distribution of energy
- 9.5 Mechanical agitators: impellers
- 9.6 Hydraulic agitation
- 9.7 Static agitators
- 9.8 Fluid-assisted agitation
- 9.9 Size of chunks in dispersed phase of suspensions
- Chapter 10. Unit operations: separation—mechanical-based
- Abstract
- 10.1 Cutoff size
- 10.2 Gravity separation
- 10.3 Cyclonic separation
- 10.4 Centrifugation
- 10.5 Filtration
- 10.6 Mechanical membrane separation
- Chapter 11. Unit operations: separation—mass transfer-based
- Abstract
- 11.1 Absorption
- 11.2 Stripping
- 11.3 Distillation
- 11.4 Evaporation
- 11.5 Crystallization
- 11.6 Adsorption
- 11.7 Drying
- 11.8 Extraction
- 11.9 Leaching
- 11.10 Mass transfer-based membrane separation
- Chapter 12. Fundamentals of chemical conversions and process units
- Abstract
- 12.1 Chemical reactions
- 12.2 Reactors
- 12.3 Our challenges regarding reactions
- 12.4 Our challenges regarding chemical reactors
- Chapter 13. Bulk solid handling
- Abstract
- 13.1 Common features of bulk solid handling
- 13.2 Bulk solid conveying
- 13.3 Bulk solid storing
- 13.4 Size reduction
- Chapter 14. Process plant design
- Abstract
- 14.1 Process plant design procedure
- 14.2 Design calculations
- 14.3 Drawing development
- 14.4 Stage-wise design of process plants
- 14.5 Equipment selection
- 14.6 Stakeholders of process plants
- Part 4: Chemical process plants and society
- Part 4. Chemical process plants and society
- Chapter 15. Risk management
- Abstract
- 15.1 Four steps of risk management
- 15.2 Risk management methodologies in process industries
- 15.3 Hazard and operability meeting(s)
- Chapter 16. Economical aspects of process plants and projects
- Abstract
- 16.1 Service cost estimation
- 16.2 Plant and equipment cost estimation
- 16.3 Investment and profitability
- 16.4 Connection of design to economy
- 16.5 Different alternatives and decision-making
- Chapter 17. Health requirements
- Abstract
- 17.1 Health issues in process industries
- 17.2 Dealing with health issues
- 17.3 Exposure to oxygen-deficient environment
- 17.4 Facing flammable/explosive gas mixtures and fires
- 17.5 Exposure to toxic, harmful materials and chemicals
- 17.6 Exposure to pathogens
- 17.7 Exposure to harmful noises
- 17.8 Dealing with hazardous materials
- 17.9 Dealing with live equipment
- 17.10 Dealing with confined spaces
- Chapter 18. Safety requirements of plants
- Abstract
- 18.1 Process safety
- 18.2 Plant protection strategies
- 18.3 Regulatory issues involved in PSVs
- 18.4 Structure of safety valves
- 18.5 Designing a PSV system
- 18.6 Locating PSVs
- 18.7 Positioning PSVs
- 18.8 Specifying PSVs
- Chapter 19. Environmental concerns
- Abstract
- 19.1 Air pollutants
- 19.2 Water contaminants
- 19.3 Solid contaminants and solid wastes
- 19.4 Dealing with environmental threats
- 19.5 Sustainability and threats for future generation
- Chapter 20. Materials of construction and corrosion
- Abstract
- 20.1 Requirements for materials of construction
- 20.2 Different types of material loss: corrosion and erosion
- 20.3 Different mechanisms of corrosion
- 20.4 Dealing with material loss
- 20.5 Material selection: game court
- 20.6 Practical knowledge about the material
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 19, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 652
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128239001
- eBook ISBN: 9780128242155
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Moe Toghraei
Moe Toghraei, M.Sc., P.Eng. is Process Engineer who has more than 25 years' experience in chemical engineering, and more than 20 years' experience in teaching. He has in-depth knowledge in project management skills including, man-hour estimation, budgeting, scheduling, and planning. Currently he is an independent Project/Process Engineer. Up to 2011 he was Lead Engineer with CH2M and Jacobs, Calgary, Alberta, Lead Process Specialist with Worley Parsons; Calgary, Alberta. He authored the book “Piping and instrumentation diagram development” published with Wiley-AIChE in 2019. He developed and instructed in-class training courses on “Water treatment in the oil industry”, “De-Oiling: Oil Removal From Water”, “P&ID: Reading & Interpretation”, “Practical Process Control: A P&ID Approach”, “Pressure Safety Valves”, and online training courses on “Process Engineering for Control Practitioners", “Process Engineering for Control Practitioners", “Chemical Engineering for non-chemical engineers”.
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