Chemical Process Equipment: Selection and Design (Butterworth's Series in Chemical Engineering) [Hardcover]

James R. Couper (Author), W. Roy Penney (Author), James R. Fair (Author), Stanley M. Walas (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0750693851 | ISBN-13: 978-0750693851 | Publication Date: October 18, 1988

Chemical Process Equipment is a guide to the selection and design of a wide range of chemical process equipment. Emphasis is placed on specific information concerning the process design and performance of equipment. To this end, attention is given to examples of successful applications, and a generous number of line sketches showing the functioning of equipment is included with many graphs and tables giving their actual performance. For coherence, brief reviews of perininent theory, including numerical examples to illustrate the more involved procedures, are provided in key chapters.

Professor Walas, drawing up on his many years of experience in industry and academia, provides a wealth of valuable shortcut methods, rules of thumb, and design by analogy applications. References to sources of more accurate design procedures are cited whenever they are available. To illustrate the data essential to process design, a substantial number of equipment rating forms and manufacturers' questionnaires have been collected. Because decisions often must be based on economic grounds, a short chapter on costs of equipment rounds out the book.

Serves as a guide for selecting and designing chemical process equipment.
Provides numerous examples with many graphs and tables.
Includes a chapter on equipment cost to address important economic concerns.

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From the Publisher

Professor Walas, drawing up on his many years of experience in industry and academia, provides a wealth of valuable shortcut methods, rules of thumb, and design by analogy applications. References to sources of more accurate design procedures are cited whenever they are available. To illustrate the data essential to process design, a substantial number of equipment rating forms and manufacturers' questionnaires have been collected. Because decisions often must be based on economic grounds, a short chapter on costs of equipment rounds out the book.

About the Author

James R. Couper, D.Sc. is Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Unviersity of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 755 pages
• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann (October 18, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0750693851
• ISBN-13: 978-0750693851
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.7 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,499,731 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The most practical chemical engineering reference book, September 21, 1997

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This review is from: Chemical Process Equipment: Selection and Design (Butterworth's Series in Chemical Engineering) (Hardcover)

For the working chemical process design engineer, this is the best reference I've come across. It tells you how to pick equipment and generally how to determine equipment sizes. As a design or procurement engineer you work with vendors to make final equipment selection, but this book gives you what you need to know before you start talking to the vendors. It bridges the gap between theory you can get from textbooks and detailed applications you can get from sales literature. I'm surprised this book hasn't caught on as a standard in the chemical engineering profession