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Plant Design and Economics for Chemical Engineers

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The Fourth Edition is an advancement over the 2nd edition, the one I "grew up" with. Instead of jumping to cost preparation and option selection, then on to preliminary design, it starts out an excellent introduction, basic requirements for OSHA and EPA (including a good section on HAZOPs), a review of computer-aided design, then on to cost preparation and the rest. After option selection, the authors provide a good solid section on process optimization. This is a new area in the text and well worth reading. All in all, a current, concise design book, ideal for the student or the old hand.

I never had much use for this text while in school. As with most subjects Senior year, we went too fast to appreciate it. With the years, however, I had cause to appreciate Peters & Timmerhaus. It is packed full of rules-of-thumb for preparations of cost estimates and comparing options. Although it is not the best place to end an economic investigation, it is the best place to start one.

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The book is a mix of economical and technical aspects of chemical engineering design; so is good for graduates starting the career or for practicing engineer interested in economical aspects of plant design. For me the good companion book for these engineer is "Conceptual design of chemical processes" by J. Douglas or better but out-of-print "Applied Project Engineering and Management" by E. Ludwig.

For an undergraduate chemical engineering student, this book has many useful charts of utility costs, safety indices, etc. About those charts, I can only say good things, because it feels a lot better citing a textbook than citing web pages all the time. The other information in the book is useful, but not presented in a useful way. I cannot read this book word by word. It's too dry. What I would rather read is a bulleted list in each chapter with definitions and examples of things like HAZOP and fault tree analysis. Because really, when I finish my design class and I need to look up information on some design principal, I'm going to want an easy to read bulleted list, not a paragraph. I think this book could have about one third the pages that way, which would make it more readable and useful.

This is one of the best teaching book for chemical engineering students, clear and objective in its content.

The book came as they said it would, and in a very timely manner,not to mention, it came from over seas. No Complaints, just respect.

The book came very fast and it was exactly like it was described.

Classic text has changed with addtion of RonE. West.

eq. (14-23a) for friction factor f contradicts eq. (12-4) of the same 5th ed. text. eq. (14-23b) is a little different than eq.(12-5) of the same text.

The statistics section has been deleted from the end.

Who has prof. West ever worked for besides U.CO?

I HAVE NOT GOTTEN THIS ITEM. PLEASE SEND ME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE THANKS A LOT