Process Plant Design for Chemical Engineers
Guide to Practical Aspects of Engineering Decision Making
- 1st Edition - December 1, 2025
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Author: Peter Mullinger
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 3 5 2 2 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 3 5 2 3 - 5
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Process Plant Design for Chemical Engineers: Guide to Practical Aspects of Engineering Decision Making serves as a practical guide for making appropriate, evidence-based decisions in all elements of process design. Process design engineers need to make a very large number of choices during the design of a process plant. These decisions are crucial, yet there are many examples of very poor choices in real-world applications that have resulted in large financial losses, serious injury or even death. The objective of the book is to assist effective evidence-based decision making and minimize risk. This book provides descriptions and analysis of many examples of real applications from different industries as examples of good and bad decisions, particularly how the available information was used. The lessons learned from each example are considered and described to help engineers understand the risks associated with process design decisions and how to manage them effectively. The book serves as a valuable resource for both chemical engineering students and engineers in industry as it provides guidance on making evidence-based decisions to ensure successful outcomes. It will also be incredibly helpful to engineers faced with the task of scaling up a new process based on lab-scale research, especially those tasked with plant design and designing commercial scale processes. This book can also be a useful guide for students and engineers in a range of process industries such as chemical processing, minerals processing, food and wine, , energy engineering, and similar related engineering fields.
- Includes case studies outlining lessons learned from many real-world examples of good and bad decision making
- Reviews existing process technology and how it informs future plant design and process decision making
- Provides complete methodologies of practical reactor selection and sizing
- Evaluates the physical and chemical characteristics of the process materials affect equipment selection, process safety and environmental considerations
Chemical engineering students and engineers in industry as it provides guidance on making evidence-based decisions to ensure successful outcomes; Engineers faced with the task of scaling up a new process based on lab-scale research, especially those tasked with plant design and designing commercial scale processes
1. Introduction
2. Review of existing technology
3. Process choice
4. Process scale up
5. Size reduction and particle sizing
6. Materials handling
7. Separation and blending processes
8. Reactor choice and sizing
9. Process control, safety
10. Utilities
11. Concluding Remarks
2. Review of existing technology
3. Process choice
4. Process scale up
5. Size reduction and particle sizing
6. Materials handling
7. Separation and blending processes
8. Reactor choice and sizing
9. Process control, safety
10. Utilities
11. Concluding Remarks
- Edition: 1
- Published: December 1, 2025
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Language: English
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Peter Mullinger
Peter Mullinger held senior management roles with both equipment suppliers and end users before joining the University of Adelaide as Associate Professor in 1999. Now semi-retired, he continues to teach process design and process safety.
Affiliations and expertise
Visiting Research Fellow, School of Chemical Engineering, University of Adelaide, North Adelaide, SA, Australia