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Systematic Methods of Chemical Process Design

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The first chapters deal with economics, really elementary material. However, it is a worthwhile discussion of plant sizing and costing. I liked the later chapters on optimization: HENS, MINLP, scheduling, flexibility in processes, etc. Traditional books on optimization will not help you here because they will not show you how to set up your optimization problem. Systematic Methods does this! The book also contains some discussion of liquid-liquid separations.

As far as content is concerned, the book deserves a 5, but there are problems which reflect its first edition status. The index needs reworking (where is the entry for Fenske's equation?), and there are numerous typographic errors which mar the appearance of the presentation.

The book is not example intensive. The reader is expected to think, and to follow the given example requires paper and pencil, not just casual glances. What should be appreciated is that this book is written by the leaders of the field, and the material is absent in other texts. Much of the text reflects research conducted by the authors.

The item I ordered delivered in only one or two weeks, and as far as I can tell the book is brand new or very lightly used. No complaints whatsoever!

This is the book that inspired me to pursue my Masters degree at Carnegie Mellon (where all 3 authors teach)...

It's a great book, but you do need to work a lot of exercises and problems on your own-- in that respect I say it could've been better-- a solutions manual or such would be great!

Given that the authors are among the best people in the field of optimization, and having seen them day-to-day, I reckon they just don't have enough time on their hands to do all that. In any case-- it's a great buy!!

systematic methods of chemical process design. optimal design of multipurpose chemical plants. downstream process economics in seperation process in biotechnology.