Front Cover -- Dedication -- Chemical Process Equipment: Selection and Design -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Contributors -- 0 Rules of Thumb: Summary -- Compressors and Vacuum Pumps -- Conveyors for Particulate Solids -- Cooling Towers -- Crystallization From Solution -- Disintegration -- Distillation and Gas Absorption -- Drivers and Power Recovery Equipment -- Drying of Solids -- Evaporators -- Extraction, Liquid-Liquid -- Filtration -- Fluidization of Particles with Gases -- Heat Exchangers -- Insulation -- Mixing and Agitation -- Particle Size Enlargement -- Piping -- Pumps -- Reactors -- Refrigeration -- Size Separation of Particles -- Utilities: Common Specifications -- Vessels (Drums) -- Vessels (Pressure) -- Vessels (Storage Tanks) -- Membrane Separations -- Materials of Construction -- Reference -- Bibliography -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1. Process Design -- 1.2. Equipment -- Vendors' Questionnaires -- Specification Forms -- 1.3. Categories of Engineering Practice -- 1.4. Sources of Information for Process Design -- 1.5. Codes, Standards, and Recommended Practices -- 1.6. Material and Energy Balances -- 1.7. Economic Balance -- 1.8. Design Safety Factors -- 1.9. Safety of Plant and Environment -- 1.10. Steam and Power Supply -- 1.11. Design Basis -- Utilities -- 1.12. Laboratory and Pilot Plant Work -- Other Sources of Information -- 1.1 Process Design -- A. Books Essential to a Private Library -- B. Other Books -- C. Estimation of Properties -- D. Equipment -- E. Safety Aspects -- 1.2 Process Equipment -- A.Encyclopedias -- B. General Data Collections -- C. Special Data Collections -- 2 Flowsheets -- 2.1. Block Flowsheets -- 2.2. Process Flowsheets -- 2.3. Process and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&ID) -- 2.4. Utility Flowsheets.

2.5. Drawing of Flowsheets -- References -- 3 Process Control -- 3.1. The Feedback Control Loop -- Overall Response Characteristics -- Valve Characteristics -- Process Characteristics -- Measurement Characteristics -- Controller Characteristics -- 3.2. Control Loop Performance and Tuning Procedures -- Closed-Loop Procedure -- Open-Loop Procedure -- Default Tuning -- 3.3. Single Stream Control -- Flow Control -- Level Control -- Pressure Control -- 3.4. Unit Operation Control -- Heat Exchangers Without Phase Change -- Air Coolers and Cooling Towers -- Heat Exchangers with Phase Change -- Process Condensers -- Process Vaporizers -- Evaporators -- Distillation Columns -- Liquid-Liquid Extraction -- Reactors -- Combustion -- pH -- Turbines and Compressors -- Bibliography -- 4 Drivers for Moving Equipment -- 4.1. Motors -- Induction -- Synchronous -- Direct Current -- 4.2. Steam Turbines and Gas Expanders -- 4.3. Combustion Gas Turbines and Engines -- References -- 5 Transfer of Solids -- 5.1. Slurry Transport -- 5.2. Pneumatic Conveying -- Equipment -- Operating Conditions -- Power Consumption and Pressure Drop -- 5.3. Mechanical Conveyors and Elevators -- Properties of Materials Handled -- Screw Conveyors -- Flexible Screw Conveyors -- Belt Conveyors -- Bucket Elevators and Carriers -- Continuous Flow Conveyor Elevators -- 5.4. Chutes -- 5.5. Solids Feeders -- References -- 6 Flow Of Fluids -- 6.1. Properties and Units -- 6.2. Energy Balance of a Flowing Fluid -- 6.3. Liquids -- Fittings and Valves -- Orifices -- Power Requirements -- 6.4. Pipeline Networks -- 6.5. Optimum Pipe Diameter -- 6.6. Non-Newtonian Liquids -- Viscosity Behavior -- Pipeline Design -- 6.7. Gases -- Isentropic Flow -- Isothermal Flow in Uniform Ducts -- Adiabatic Flow -- Nonideal Gases -- 6.8. Liquid-Gas Flow in Pipelines -- Homogeneous Model -- Separated Flow Models.

Other Aspects -- 6.9. Granular and Packed Beds -- Single Phase Fluids -- Two-Phase Flow -- 6.10. Gas-Solid Transfer -- Choking Velocity -- Pressure Drop -- 6.11. Fluidization of Beds of Particles with Gases -- Characteristics of Fluidization -- Sizing Equipment -- References -- General -- Non-Newtonian Fluids -- Two-Phase Flow -- Gas-Solid (Pneumatic) Transport -- Fluidization -- 7 Fluid Transport Equipment -- 7.1. Piping -- Valves -- Control Valves -- 7.2. Pump Theory -- Basic Relations -- Pumping Systems -- 7.3. Pump Characteristics -- 7.4. Criteria for Selection of Pumps -- 7.5. Equipment for Gas Transport -- Fans -- Compressors -- Centrifugals -- Axial Flow Compressors -- Reciprocating Compressors -- Rotary Compressors -- 7.6. Theory and Calculations of Gas Compression -- Dimensionless Groups -- Ideal Gases -- Real Processes and Gases -- Work on Nonideal Gases -- Efficiency -- Temperature Rise, Compression Ratio, Volumetric Efficiency -- 7.7. Ejector and Vacuum Systems -- Ejector Arrangements -- Air Leakage -- Steam Consumption -- Ejector Theory -- Glossary for Chapter 7 -- Pump Terms -- Terms Concerning Centrifugal And Related Pumps -- References -- 8 Heat Transfer and Heat Exchangers -- 8.1. Conduction of Heat -- Thermal Conductivity -- Hollow Cylinder -- Composite Walls -- Fluid Films -- 8.2. Mean Temperature Difference -- Single Pass Exchanger -- Multipass Exchangers -- F-Method -- Selection of Shell-and-Tube Numbers of Passes -- Example -- 8.3. Heat Transfer Coefficients -- Overall Coefficients -- Fouling Factors -- Individual Film Coefficients -- Metal Wall Resistance -- Dimensionless Groups -- 8.4. Data of Heat Transfer Coefficients -- Direct Contact Heat Transfer -- Natural Convection -- Forced Convection -- Condensation -- Boiling -- Extended Surfaces -- 8.5. Pressure Drop in Heat Exchangers -- 8.6. Types of Heat Exchangers.

Plate-and-Frame Exchangers -- Spiral Heat Exchangers -- Compact (Plate-Fin) Exchangers -- Air Coolers -- Double-Pipes -- 8.7. Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers -- Construction -- Advantages -- Tube Side or Shell Side -- Design of a Heat Exchanger -- Tentative Design -- 8.8. Condensers -- Condenser Configurations -- Design Calculation Method -- The Silver-Bell-Ghaly Method -- 8.9. Reboilers -- Kettle Reboilers -- Horizontal Shell Side Thermosiphons -- Vertical Thermosiphons -- Forced Circulation Reboilers -- Calculation Procedures -- 8.10. Evaporators -- Thermal Economy -- Surface Requirements -- 8.11. Fired Heaters -- Description of Equipment -- Heat Transfer -- Design of Fired Heaters -- 8.12. Insulation of Equipment -- Low Temperatures -- Medium to High Temperatures -- Refractories -- 8.13. Refrigeration -- Compression Refrigeration -- Refrigerants -- Absorption Refrigeration -- Cryogenics -- References -- Direct Contact Heat Transfer -- Fired Heaters (see also Ganapathy, HEDH, and Kern above) -- Selected American Petroleum Institute Standards (API, Washington, D.C.) available at http://www.4shared.com/rar/xB4EUDEX/API_... -- Insulation -- Refrigeration -- 9 Dryers and Cooling Towers -- 9.1. Interaction of Air and Water -- 9.2. Rate of Drying -- Laboratory and Pilot Plant Testing -- 9.3. Classification and General Characteristics of Dryers -- Products -- Costs -- Equipment Selection and Specification -- Performance of Dryers -- 9.4. Batch Dryers -- 9.5. Continuous Tray and Conveyor Belt Dryers -- 9.6. Rotary Cylindrical Dryers -- 9.7. Drum Dryers for Solutions and Slurries -- 9.8. Pneumatic Conveying Dryers -- 9.9. Flash and Ring Dryers -- Flash Dryers -- Ring Dryers -- 9.10. Fluidized Bed Dryers -- 9.11. Spray Dryers -- Atomization -- Applications -- Thermal Efficiency -- Design -- 9.12. Cooling Towers -- Cooling Tower Terminology.

Types of Cooling Towers -- Specification and Materials of Construction -- Testing and Acceptance -- References -- Drying -- Cooling Towers -- 10 Mixing and Agitation -- 10.1. A Basic Stirred Tank Design -- Off-Center Angled Shaft Eliminates Vortexing and Swirl -- Internal Heat Transfer Surfaces -- Impeller Speeds -- Impeller Types -- 10.2. Vessel Flow Patterns -- 10.3. Agitator Power Requirements -- For A Given System Geometry -- Effect of Key Geometrical Variable on Power Draw -- 10.4. Impeller Pumping -- 10.5. Tank Blending -- Blend Time for Multiple Impellers -- 10.6. Heat Transfer -- Heat Transfer Coefficients -- Overall Heat Transfer Coefficient (U) -- Heat-Up or Cool-Down Time -- 10.7. Vortex Depth -- Drawdown of Headspace Gas and Wetting of Floating Solids Using Partial Baffling -- Qualitative Understanding Of Vortex Depth -- Unbaffled Vessels -- 10.8. Solid Suspension -- Level of Suspension -- 10.9. Solids Dissolving -- 10.10. Gas-Liquid Dispersions -- 10.11. Liquid-Liquid (L-L) Dispersions -- 10.12. Pipeline Mixers -- Design Methods -- Relative Coefficient of Variation for Kenics Static Mixers -- Drop Size for Kenics Hem Mixers -- 10.13. Compartmented Columns -- Design Methods -- 10.14. Fast Competitive/Consecutive (C/C) Reactions -- Design Methods -- 10.15. Scale-Up -- Scale-Up Analysis Using Geometrical Similarity -- Easy Scale-Up at Constant Process Result -- Difficult Scale-Ups at Constant Process Result -- Nomenclature -- References -- General -- Tank Blending -- Heat Transfer -- Vortex Depth -- Solids Suspension -- Solids Dissolving -- Gas-Liquid Dispersions -- Liquid-Liquid Dispersions -- Pipeline Mixers -- Staged Columns -- Fast Reactions -- Scale-up -- 11 Solid-Liquid Separation -- 11.1. Processes and Equipment -- 11.2. Liquid-Particle Characteristics -- 11.3. Theory of Filtration -- Compressible Cakes.

11.4. Resistance to Filtration.