Process Equipment and Plant Design

Principles and Practices

Subhabrata Ray, Gargi Das

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9780128148853
• eBook ISBN: 9780128148860
• Topic: Tecnologia e ingegneria
• Subtopic: Termodinamica

Process Equipment and Plant Design: Principles and Practices takes a holistic approach towards process design in the chemical engineering industry, dealing with the design of individual process equipment and its configuration as a complete functional system. Chapters cover typical heat and mass transfer systems and equipment included in a chemical engineering curriculum, such as heat exchangers, heat exchanger networks, evaporators, distillation, absorption, adsorption, reactors and more.The authors expand on additional topics such as industrial cooling systems, extraction, and topics on process utilities, piping and hydraulics, including instrumentation and safety basics that supplement the equipment design procedure and help to arrive at a complete plant design. The chapters are arranged in sections pertaining to heat and mass transfer processes, reacting systems, plant hydraulics and process vessels, plant auxiliaries, and engineered safety as well as a separate chapter showcasing examples of process design in complete plants.This comprehensive reference bridges the gap between industry and academia, while exploring best practices in design, including relevant theories in process design making this a valuable primer for fresh graduates and professionals working on design projects in the industry.- Serves as a consolidated resource for process and plant design, including process utilities and engineered safety- Bridges the gap between industry and academia by including practices in design and summarizing relevant theories- Presents design solutions as a complete functional system and not merely the design of major equipment- Provides design procedures as pseudo-code/flow-chart, along with practical considerations

Table of contents

• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Dedication
• About the Authors
• Preface
• Acknowledgement
• section I. Introduction to process design
• section II. Heat transfer processes
• section III. Mass transfer processes
• section IV. Reacting systems
• section V. Plant hydraulics and process vessels
• section VI. Plant auxiliaries
• section VII. Process packages
• Appendix A. Graphical symbols for piping systems and plant
• Appendix B. Corrosion chart
• Appendix C. Physical property data bank
• Appendix D. Conversion factors
• Appendix E. Typical fouling factors in m2K/W compiled from various sources
• Appendix F. Heat exchanger tube sizes and other details
• Appendix G. List of different standards commonly used
• Index