Process Plant Design

PrefaceUnitsPart 1: Process Evaluation Chapter 1: Preliminary Concepts 1.1 Process Plant Design 1.2 Process Evaluation 1.3 Mass and Heat Balances 1.4 Flowsheets 1.5 UnitsPart 2: Process Plant Design Chapter 2: Cost Estimation and Optimization 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Cost of Major Items of Equipment 2.3 Costs of Complete Plants 2.4 Investment in Auxiliary Services 2.5 Estimation of Manufacturing Costs 2.6 Estimation of the Total Cost of Product 2.7 Profitability and Investment Appraisal 2.8 Optimization 2.9 Nomenclature Chapter 3: Heat Exchange Equipment 3.1 Introduction 3.2 General Description of Shell and Tube Units 3.3 Heat Transfer Considerations 3.4 Pressure Drop in Shell and Tube Exchangers 3.5 Optimum Operating Conditions 3.6 Evaporator Design 3.7 Nomenclature Chapter 4: Towers 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Contacting Devices 4.3 The Choice between Packed and Plate Columns 4.4 Tower Packings 4.5 Choice of Plate Types 4.6 Plate Calculations 4.7 Multicomponent Calculations 4.8 Transfer Unit Calculations 4.9 Column Diameter 4.10 Nomenclature Chapter 5: Packed Towers 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Type and Size of Packing 5.3 Flooding 5.4 Pressure Drop 5.5 Foam 5.6 Hold-up 5.7 Degree of Wetting 5.8 Column Diameter 5.9 Height of Packing 5.10 Design of a Packed Tower for Distillation 5.11 Optimum Design 5.12 Nomenclature Chapter 6: Sieve and Valve Tray Design 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Sieve Trays 6.3 Valve Trays 6.4 Nomenclature Chapter 7: Mechanical Design 7.1 Introduction 7.2 The Mechanical Design of Heat Exchangers 7.3 The Mechanical Design of Columns 7.4 Practical Rules of Thumb 7.5 NomenclaturePart 3: Process Plant Selection Chapter 8: Physical Separation Processes 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Solid-Solid Separations 8.3 Gas-Solid Separations 8.4 Liquid-Solid Separation 8.5 Nomenclature Chapter 9: Ancillary Equipment 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Pumping 9.3 Crystallization 9.4 Mixing 9.5 Grinding 9.6 Storage and Storage Vessels 9.7 Nomenclature Chapter 10: Scale-up of Process Equipment 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Basic Principles of Scale-up 10.3 Scale-up of Heat Exchange Systems 10.4 Reactor Design 10.5 Scale-up of Chemical Reactors 10.6 Scale-up of Liquid Mixing Systems 10.7 Scale-up of Fluid Flow Systems 10.8 Nomenclature Part 4: Overall Considerations Chapter 11: The Complete Plant 11.1 Introduction 11.2 Location of Chemical Plant 11.3 Layout of Chemical Plant 11.4 Piping Layout 11.5 General Considerations 11.6 Conclusion Appendix: Common Conversion Factors to SI UnitsIndex