Chemical Process Equipment
Selection and Design
- 1st Edition - October 22, 2013
- Authors: James R. Couper, W Roy Penney, James R. Fair, Stanley M. Walas
- Language: English
Chemical Process Equipment is a guide to the selection and design of a wide range of chemical process equipment. Emphasis is placed on specific information concerning the process… Read more
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Chemical Process Equipment is a guide to the selection and design of a wide range of chemical process equipment. Emphasis is placed on specific information concerning the process design and performance of equipment. To this end, attention is given to examples of successful applications, and a generous number of line sketches showing the functioning of equipment is included with many graphs and tables giving their actual performance. For coherence, brief reviews of perininent theory, including numerical examples to illustrate the more involved procedures, are provided in key chapters.
Serves as a guide for selecting and designing chemical process equipment.
Provides numerous examples with many graphs and tables.
Includes a chapter on equipment cost to address important economic concerns.
Provides numerous examples with many graphs and tables.
Includes a chapter on equipment cost to address important economic concerns.
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 22, 2013
- Language: English
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James R. Couper
James R. Couper, D.Sc. is Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Unviersity of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USAWP
W Roy Penney
W. Roy Penney, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, has taught graduate courses in Fluid Mixing for the last 25 years and he taught the AIChE “Industrial Fluid Mixing” course for 15 years. He spent 25 years in industry where he was involved in experimental and design work involving fluid mixing equipment. For the last 30 years he has had an academic career where he taught and researched fluid mixing technology. He consulted in the area of fluid mixing for several companies, including Chemineer, Dow Corning, Conoco, Unique Tire, Energy Transfer Partners et al. Dr. Penney is author or coauthor of over 60 papers, Patents and lectures and three books. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He has registration as a Professional Engineer in Missouri and Arkansas.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USAJF
James R. Fair
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemical Engineering, UT Austin, USARead Chemical Process Equipment on ScienceDirect