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Process Intensification

Engineering for Efficiency, Sustainability and Flexibility

  • 2nd Edition - June 5, 2013
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: David Reay, Colin Ramshaw, Adam Harvey
  • Language: English

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Description

Process Intensification: Engineering for Efficiency, Sustainability and Flexibility is the first book to provide a practical working guide to understanding process intensification (PI) and developing successful PI solutions and applications in chemical process, civil, environmental, energy, pharmaceutical, biological, and biochemical systems.

Process intensification is a chemical and process design approach that leads to substantially smaller, cleaner, safer, and more energy efficient process technology. It improves process flexibility, product quality, speed to market and inherent safety, with a reduced environmental footprint.

This book represents a valuable resource for engineers working with leading-edge process technologies, and those involved research and development of chemical, process, environmental, pharmaceutical, and bioscience systems.

Key features

  • No other reference covers both the technology and application of PI, addressing fundamentals, industry applications, and including a development and implementation guide
  • Covers hot and high growth topics, including emission prevention, sustainable design, and pinch analysis
  • World-class authors: Colin Ramshaw pioneered PI at ICI and is widely credited as the father of the technology

Readership

Chemical Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Process Engineers

Table of contents

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction

1.A Brief History of Process Intensification

2.Process Intensification – An Overview

3.The Mechanisms involved in Process Intensification

4.Compact and Micro-Heat Exchangers

5.Reactors

6.Intensification of Separation Processes

7.Intensified Mixing

8.Application Areas – Petrochemicals and Fine Chemicals

9.Application Areas – Off-shore processing

10.Application Areas – Miscellaneous Process Industries

11.Application Areas – The Built Environment, Electronics and the Home

12.Specifying, Manufacturing and Operating PI Plant
Appendix 1 Abbreviations Used
Appendix 2 Nomenclature
Appendix 3 Equipment Suppliers
Appendix 4 R&D Organisations, Consultants and Miscellaneous Groups Active in PI
Appendix 5 A Selection of Other Useful Contact Points, Including Networks and Websites
Index

Product details

  • Edition: 2
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 30, 2018
  • Language: English

About the authors

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David Reay

Professor Reay manages David Reay & Associates, UK, and he is a Visiting Professor at Northumbria University, Emeritus Professor at Newcastle University, and Honorary Professor Brunel University London, UK. His main research interests are compact heat exchangers, process intensification, and heat pumps. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Thermal Science and Engineering Progress and Associate Editor of the International Journal of Thermofluids, both are published by Elsevier. Prof. Reay is the Author/Co-author of eight other books.
Affiliations and expertise
Manager, David Reay and Associates; Visiting Professor, Northumbria University; Researcher, Newcastle University; Honorary Professor at Nottingham University, UK

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Colin Ramshaw

Colin Ramshaw conceived and developed the concept of Process Intensification in the 1980’s while working for ICI. He pioneered further aspects of PI after being appointed to the Chair of Chemical Engineering at Newcastle University. He is now a Visiting Professor at Cranfield University
Affiliations and expertise
Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering, Newcastle University, UK

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Adam Harvey

Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Process Intensification in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials (CEAM) at Newcastle University, UK

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