chemical process equipment walas 774pp (1990)

[...]... York, 1979 6 S.M Walas, Phase Equilibria in Chemical Engineering, Butterworths, Stoneham, MA, 1984 D Equipment 1 Chemical Engineering Catalog, Penton/Reinhold, New York, annual 2 Chemical Engineering Equipment Buyers’ Guide, McGraw-Hill, New York, annual 3 Kieser, Handbuch der chemisch-technischen Apparate, Spamer-Springer, Berlin, 1934-1939 4 Mead, The Encyclopedia of Chemical Process Equipment, Reinhold,... geology, geography Processes Processes subject to explosive reaction or detonation Processes which react energetically with water or common contaminants Processes subject to spontaneous polymerisation or heating Processes which are exothermic Processes containing flammables and operated at high pressure or high temperature or both Processes containing flammables and operated under refrigeration Processes in... forms A representative selection is in Appendix C 1.2 EQUIPMENT Two main categories of process equipment are proprietary and custom-designed Proprietary equipment is designed by the manufacturer to meet performance specifications made by the user; these specifications may be regarded as the process design of the equipment This category includes equipment with moving parts such as pumps, compressors,... piping equipment, and valves, and even the structural aspects of heat exchangers, furnaces, and other equipment Custom design is needed for many aspects of chemical reactors, most vessels, multistage separators such as fractionators, and other special equipment not amenable to complete standardization Only those characteristics of equipment are specified by process design that are significant from the process. .. 2 Bodman, Industrial Practice of Chemical Process Engineering (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1968) 3 Rase, Chemical Reactor Design for Process Plants, Vol II, Case Studies (Wiley, New York, 1977) 4 Washington University, St Louis, Case Studies in Chemical Engineering Design (22 cases to 1984) l l Somewhat broader in scope are: 5 Wei et al., The Structure of the Chemical Processing Industries (McGraw-Hill,... Chapter 20, on costs of equipment, rounds out the book Appendixes provide examples of equipment rating forms and manufacturers’ questionnaires Chemical process equipment is of two kinds: custom designed and built, or proprietary “off the shelf.” For example, the sizes and performance of custom equipment such as distillation towers, drums, and heat exchangers are derived by the process engineer on the... Aerstin and Street, Applied Chemical Process Design, Plenum, New York, 1978 2 Baasel, Preliminary Chemical Engineering Plant Design, Elsevier, New York, 1976 16 INTRODUCTION 3 Backhurst and Harker, Process Plant Design, Elsevier, New York, 1973 4 Benedek (Ed.), Steady State Flowsheeting of Chemical Plants, Elsevier, New York, 1980 5 Bodman, The Industrial Practice of Chemical Process Engineering, MIT... and Barrow, Project Engineering of Process Plants, Wiley, New York, 1957 20 Resnick, Process Analysis and Design for Chemical Engineers, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1981 21 Rudd and Watson, Strategy of Process Engineering, Wiley, New York, 1968 22 Schweitzer (Ed.), Handbook of Separation Processes for Chemical Engineers, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1979 23 Sherwood, A Course in Process Design, MIT Press, Cambridge,... Chemical Engineering Process Design and Economics, Wiley, New York, 1984 25 Valle-Riestra, Project Evaluation in the Chemical Process Industries, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1983 26 Vilbrandt and Dryden, Chemical Engineering Plant Design, McGrawHill, New York, 1959 27 Wells, Process Engineering with Economic Objective, Leonard Hill, London, 1973 C Estimation of Properties 1 AIChE Manual for Predicting Chemical. .. restrictions must be home in mind by the process designer 1.1 PROCESS DESIGN Process design establishes the sequence of chemical and physical operations; operating conditions; the duties, major specifications, and materials of construction (where critical) of all process equipment (as distinguished from utilities and building auxiliaries); the general arrangement of equipment needed to ensure proper functioning . Cataloguing in Publication Data Walas, Stanley M. Chemical process equipment (Butterworth- Heinemann series in chemical engineering). series in chemical engineering). 1. Chemical engineering-Apparatus. Cataloging-in-Publication Data Walas, Stanley M. Chemical process equipment. (Butterworth-Heinemann series in chemical engineering) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Chemical engineering-Apparatus. University SERIES TITLES Chemical Process Equipment Stanley M. Walas Constitutive Equations for Polymer Melts and Solutions Ronald G. Larson Gas Separation by Adsorption Processes Ralph T. Yang Heterogeneous