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Branan's useful and convenient handbook for chemical and process engineers (at a bargain price) will be much appreciated by students and practitioners... (American Reference Books Annual)
...this book is a handy reference tool for preliminary designs, and has some very useful information on several aspects of plant operation. (Chemical Engineering)
Carl Brannan's book provides a huge amount of valuable information on a wide variety of chemical engineering applications from sizing pipelines to economic evaluation of process options. (IChemE: Institute of Chemical Engineers)
...this book is a handy reference tool for preliminary designs, and has some very useful information on several aspects of plant operation. (Chemical Engineering)
Carl Brannan's book provides a huge amount of valuable information on a wide variety of chemical engineering applications from sizing pipelines to economic evaluation of process options. (IChemE: Institute of Chemical Engineers)
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Outstanding compilation,
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This review is from: Rules of Thumb for Chemical Engineers, Second Edition (Paperback)
This is a 400+ page perfect-bound book, 8-1/2 x 11 inch formt, packed with tips and short cuts for practicing chemical engineers. Branan has essentially scoured the popular press (e.g, Chemical Engineering Magazine, Hydrocarbon Processing, etc.) for articles and data. He's captured that data and organized it into his volume. In so doing, he omits most of the explanatory text and derivations. Instead, he prints the actual data, formulas, recommendations, and definitions (and, of course, references to the source material). This makes for a highly accessible book with tremendous practical value.There are four main sections: 1) equipment design, 2) process design, 3) plant design, and 4) operations. For example, one of the chapters within plant design is called "Safety." It contains the following parts: - Estimating LEL and Flash (provides method for estimating LEL given the stoichiometry of combustion and a vapor pressure curve) - Tank Blanketing (method for determining inert gas requirements for breathing losses and working losses; includes data maps of the US) - Equipment Purging (for dilution, pressure-cycle, and vacuum-cycle purging) - Static Charge from Fluid Flow (reprint of an article from Hydrocarbon Processing) - Mixture Flammability (method and examples for estimating) - Relief Manifolds (describes method adopted by API) In short, if you are practicing process engineering for plant design or maintenance, you should have this book.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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A MUST HAVE books for Chemical Engineers,
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This review is from: Rules of Thumb for Chemical Engineers, Second Edition (Paperback)
This is one of the few MUST HAVE books for Chemical Engineers doing process engineering. When I travel (for work) I always take "Transport Phenomena" (aka BSL), The GPA Databook and "Rules of Thumb for Chemical Engineers". Rules of Thumb... is a great reference for process design and trouble shooting field problems. A Practical Tip: The best thing to do with "Rules of Thumb for Chemical Engineers" is to carefuly remove the binding and put it into a 3-hole notebook (e.g., the GPA databook) and then file all the classic process design articles with the appropriate chapters.
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From an Industrial Practitioner - This is an Excellent Quick Reference,
This review is from: Rules of Thumb for Chemical Engineers, Third Edition (Paperback)
This book is an excellent and priceless reference on Process Equipment Fundamentals and Quick Calculations for any engineer or practitioner working in the process industries. I am an Electronic Engineer, but I have been working for the last 16 years as an Instrumentation, Automation and Process Control Engineer for the Oil & Gas Industry. As a result I have been involved with Chemical Engineering issues in a day to day basic.I have found this book to be an excellent tool aid to analyze operational problems that affect process performance. Chemical engineers working in operations and design for the process industries will find this book most useful.
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In Equation 1 h is called the "velocity head." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
process specification sheets, tray hydraulic calculations, shortcut design methods, allowable mass velocity, equipment design methods, metal dusting, fuel ash corrosion, gas horsepower, flammability envelope, downcomer area, tray damage, settling height, packing support plate, superficial vapor velocity, amine plant, evaporator temperature, thermosyphon reboilers, pocket handbook, condenser duty, molar rate, gas risers, lean oil, steam loss, horsepower calculation, psig psig Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Engineering Data Book, Gas Processors Suppliers Association, The Process Engineer's Pocket Handbook, Source Branan, Lowest Reported, Applied Process Design, The Process Engineers Pocket Handbook, New York, Equipment Design Handbook, Norton Chemical Process Products Corporation, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Source Evans, Cold Water Temp, Wet Bulb Temp, Literature Cited, Bureau of Mines, Pneumatic Conveying, American Petroleum Institute, Petroleum Refiner, Process Design For Reliable Operations, Campbell Petroleum Series, Diameter of Sieve, Other Than Glass, Performance Factor, Source Ludwig New!
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In Equation 1 h is called the "velocity head." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
process specification sheets, tray hydraulic calculations, shortcut design methods, allowable mass velocity, equipment design methods, metal dusting, fuel ash corrosion, gas horsepower, flammability envelope, downcomer area, tray damage, settling height, packing support plate, superficial vapor velocity, amine plant, evaporator temperature, thermosyphon reboilers, pocket handbook, condenser duty, molar rate, gas risers, lean oil, steam loss, horsepower calculation, psig psig Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Engineering Data Book, Gas Processors Suppliers Association, The Process Engineer's Pocket Handbook, Source Branan, Lowest Reported, Applied Process Design, The Process Engineers Pocket Handbook, New York, Equipment Design Handbook, Norton Chemical Process Products Corporation, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Source Evans, Cold Water Temp, Wet Bulb Temp, Literature Cited, Bureau of Mines, Pneumatic Conveying, American Petroleum Institute, Petroleum Refiner, Process Design For Reliable Operations, Campbell Petroleum Series, Diameter of Sieve, Other Than Glass, Performance Factor, Source Ludwig New!
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- Engineering Data Book. by Gas Processors Suppliers Association on 33 pages
- Process Engineers Pocket Handbook (v. 1) by Carl Branan on 10 pages
- Equipment Design Handbook for Refineries and Chemical Plants. Volume 2 by Frank L. Evans on 9 pages
- Applied Process Design for Chemical and Petrochemical Plants: Volume 1, Third Edition (Applied Process Design for Chemical & Petrochemical Plants) by Ernest E. Ludwig on 9 pages
- Process Design for Reliable Operations by Norman P. Lieberman on 7 pages
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- Process Engineering Economics (Chemical Industries) by James Riley Couper on page 117, and Back Matter
- Successful Trouble Shooting for Process Engineers: A Complete Course in Case Studies by Donald R. Woods in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Process Development: From the Initial Idea to the Chemical Production Plant by G. Herbert Vogel on page 28
- Chemical Engineering Fluid Mechanics, Revised and Expanded by Ronald Darby on page 418
- Rules of Thumb for Chemical Engineers, Third Edition by Carl R. Branan on page 388
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