Chemical Engineering Design

Principles, Practice and Economics of Plant and Process Design

3rd Edition - July 14, 2021
Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
Authors: Gavin Towler, Ray Sinnott
Language: English
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Chemical Engineering Design: Principles, Practice and Economics of Plant and Process Design is one of the best-known and most widely adopted texts available for students of chemical engineering. The text deals with the application of chemical engineering principles to the design of chemical processes and equipment. The third edition retains its hallmark features of scope, clarity and practical emphasis, while providing the latest US codes and standards, including API, ASME and ISA design codes and ANSI standards, as well as coverage of the latest aspects of process design, operations, safety, loss prevention, equipment selection, and more. The text is designed for chemical and biochemical engineering students (senior undergraduate year, plus appropriate for capstone design courses where taken), and professionals in industry (chemical process, biochemical, pharmaceutical, petrochemical sectors).

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Preface to the Third Edition
How To Use This Book
Acknowledgments
I. Process design
Chapter 1. Introduction to design
1.1. Introduction
1.2. Nature of design
1.3. The organization of a chemical engineering project
1.4. Project documentation
1.5. Codes and standards
1.6. Design factors (design margins)
1.7. Systems of units
1.8. Product design
Chapter 2. Process flowsheet development
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Flowsheet presentation
2.3. The anatomy of a chemical manufacturing process
2.4. Selection, modification, and improvement of commercially proven processes
2.5. Revamps of existing plants
2.6. Synthesis of novel flowsheets
2.7. PFD review
2.8. Overall procedure for flowsheet development
Chapter 3. Utilities and energy-efficient design
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Utilities
3.3. Energy recovery
3.4. Waste stream combustion
3.5. Heat exchanger networks
3.6. Energy management in unsteady processes
Chapter 4. Process simulation
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Process simulation programs
4.3. Specification of components
4.4. Selection of physical property models
4.5. Simulation of unit operations
4.6. User models
4.7. Flowsheets with recycle
4.8. Flowsheet optimization
4.9. Dynamic simulation
Chapter 5. Instrumentation and process control
5.1. Introduction
5.2. The P&I diagram
5.3. Process instrumentation and control
5.4. Conventional control schemes
5.5. Alarms, safety trips, and interlocks
5.6. Batch process control
5.7. Computer control systems
Chapter 6. Materials of construction
6.1. Introduction
6.2. Material properties
6.3. Mechanical properties
6.4. Corrosion resistance
6.5. Selection for corrosion resistance
6.6. Material costs
6.7. Contamination
6.8. Commonly used materials of construction
6.9. Plastics as materials of construction for chemical plants
6.10. Ceramic materials (silicate materials)
6.11. Carbon
6.12. Protective coatings
6.13. Design for corrosion resistance
Chapter 7. Capital cost estimating
7.1. Introduction
7.2. Components of capital cost
7.3. Accuracy and purpose of capital cost estimates
7.4. Order-of-magnitude estimates
7.5. Estimating purchased equipment costs
7.6. Estimating installed costs: The factorial method
7.7. Cost escalation
7.8. Location factors
7.9. Estimating off-site capital costs
7.10. Computer tools for cost estimating
7.11. Validity of cost estimates
Chapter 8. Estimating revenues and production costs
8.1. Introduction
8.2. Costs, revenues, and profits
8.3. Product and raw material prices
8.4. Estimating variable production costs
8.5. Estimating fixed production costs
8.6. Summarizing revenues and production costs
8.7. References
8.8. Nomenclature
8.9. Problems
Chapter 9. Economic evaluation of projects
9.1. Introduction
9.2. Cash flows during a project
9.3. Project financing
9.4. Taxes and depreciation
9.5. Simple methods for economic analysis
9.6. Present value methods
9.7. Annualized cost methods
9.8. Sensitivity analysis
9.9. Project portfolio selection
Chapter 10. Safety and loss prevention
10.1. Introduction
10.2. Materials hazards
10.3. Process hazards
10.4. Analysis of product and process safety
10.5. Failure mode effect analysis
10.6. Safety indices
10.7. Hazard and operability studies
10.8. Quantitative hazard analysis
10.9. Pressure relief
Chapter 11. General site considerations
11.1. Introduction
11.2. Plant location and site selection
11.3. Site layout
11.4. Plant layout
11.5. Environmental considerations
Chapter 12. Optimization in design
12.1. Introduction
12.2. The design objective
12.3. Constraints and degrees of freedom
12.4. Trade-offs
12.5. Problem decomposition
12.6. Optimization of a single decision variable
12.7. Search methods
12.8. Optimization of two or more decision variables
12.9. Linear programming
12.10. Nonlinear programming
12.11. Mixed-integer programming
12.12. Optimization in industrial practice
II. Plant design
Chapter 13. Equipment selection, specification, and design
13.1. Introduction
13.2. Sources of equipment design information
13.3. Guide to equipment selection and design
Chapter 14. Design of pressure vessels
14.1. Introduction
14.2. Pressure vessel codes and standards
14.3. Fundamentals of strength of materials
14.4. General design considerations for pressure vessels
14.5. The design of thin-walled vessels under internal pressure
14.6. Compensation for openings and branches
14.7. Design of vessels subject to external pressure
14.8. Design of vessels subject to combined loading
14.9. Vessel supports
14.10. Bolted flanged joints
14.11. Welded joint design
14.12. Fatigue assessment of vessels
14.13. Pressure tests
14.14. High-pressure vessels
14.15. Liquid storage tanks
14.16. Capital cost of pressure vessels
Chapter 15. Design of reactors and mixers
15.1. Introduction
15.2. Reactor design: General procedure
15.3. Sources of reaction engineering data
15.4. Choice of reaction conditions
15.5. Mixing
15.6. Heating and cooling of reacting systems
15.7. Multiphase reactors
15.8. Reactor design for catalytic processes
15.9. Design of bioreactors
15.10. Multifunctional batch reactors
15.11. Computer simulation of reactors
15.12. Determining actual reactor performance
15.13. Safety considerations in reactor design
15.14. Capital cost of reactors
Chapter 16. Separation of fluids
16.1. Introduction
16.2. Gas–gas separations
16.3. Gas–liquid separators
16.4. Liquid–liquid separation
16.5. Separation of dissolved components
Chapter 17. Separation columns (distillation, absorption, and extraction)
17.1. Introduction
17.2. Continuous distillation: Process description
17.3. Continuous distillation: Basic principles
17.4. Design variables in distillation
17.5. Design methods for binary systems
17.6. Multicomponent distillation: General considerations
17.7. Multicomponent distillation: Shortcut methods for stage and reflux requirements
17.8. Multicomponent distillation: Rigorous solution procedures (computer methods)
17.9. Other distillation processes
17.10. Plate efficiency
17.11. Approximate column sizing
17.12. Plate contactors
17.13. Plate hydraulic design
17.14. Packed columns
17.15. Column auxiliaries
17.16. Solvent extraction (liquid–liquid extraction)
17.17. Capital cost of separation columns
Chapter 18. Specification and design of solids-handling equipment
18.1. Introduction
18.2. Properties of granular materials
18.3. Storage and transport of solids
18.4. Separation and mixing of solids
18.5. Gas–solids separations (gas cleaning)
18.6. Separation of solids from liquids
18.7. Separation of liquids from solids (drying)
18.8. Solids formation, shaping, and size enlargement processes
18.9. Particle size reduction (comminution)
18.10. Heat transfer to flowing solid particles
18.11. Hazards of solids processing
Chapter 19. Heat transfer equipment
19.1. Introduction
19.2. Basic design procedure and theory
19.3. Overall heat transfer coefficient
19.4. Fouling factors (dirt factors)
19.5. Shell and tube exchangers: Construction details
19.6. Mean temperature difference (temperature driving force)
19.7. Shell and tube exchangers: General design considerations
19.8. Tube-side heat transfer coefficient and pressure drop (single phase)
19.9. Shell-side heat transfer and pressure drop (single phase)
19.10. Condensers
19.11. Reboilers and vaporizers
19.12. Plate heat exchangers
19.13. Direct-contact heat exchangers
19.14. Finned tubes
19.15. Double-pipe heat exchangers
19.16. Air-cooled exchangers
19.17. Fired heaters (furnaces and boilers)
19.18. Heat transfer to vessels
19.19. Capital cost of heat transfer equipment
Chapter 20. Transport and storage of fluids
20.1. Introduction
20.2. Storage of fluids
20.3. Transport of gases and liquids
20.4. Pressure drop in pipelines
20.5. Valves
20.6. Compression and expansion of gases
20.7. Pumping of liquids
20.8. Selection of drivers for rotating equipment
20.9. Mechanical design of piping systems
20.10. Pipe size selection
20.11. Sizing of control valves
Appendices
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