Plant design and economics for chemical engineers / Max S. Peters, Klaus D. Timmerhaus & Ronald E. West.
Series: McGraw-Hill chemical engineering seriesPublication details: Boston ; Singapore ; New York : McGraw-Hill, c2003.Edition: 5th editionDescription: xvii, 988 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780071240444
- 0072392665 (acidfree paper)
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CONTENTS
Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chemical engineering plant designs
General overall design considerations
Practical considerations in design
Engineering ethics in design
Chapter 2- General design considerations
Health and safety hazards
Loss prevention
Environmental protection
etc.
Chapter 3- Process design development
Development of design database
Process creation
Process design
etc.
Chapter 4- Flowsheet synthesis and development synthesis and development
Flowsheet synthesis and development
Process information
Input/output structure
etc.
Chapter 5- Software use in process
Software structure
Software capabilities
Software for process design
etc.
Chapter 6- Analysis of cost estimation
Cash flow for industrial operations
Factors affecting investment
Production costs
etc.
Chapter 7- Interest , Time value of money, axes and fixed charges
Interest
Cost of capital
Time value of money
etc.
Chapter 8 - Profitability , alternative investments and replacements
Profitability standards
Methods of calculating profitability
Alternative investments
etc.
Chapter 9- Defining the optimization problem
Selecting an objective function
Suboptimization
Programming optimization problems
etc.
Chapter 10- Materials and fabrication selection
Factors contributing to corrosion
Combating corrosion
Properties of materials
etc.
Chapter 11 - Written and oral design reports
Written reports
Oral reports
Problems
Chapter 12-Materials -handling equipment design and costs
Basic concepts of fluid transport
Piping in fluid transport processes
Pumping of fluids
etc.
Chapter 13- Reactor equipment design and costs
Reactor principles
Development of chemical reaction rate expressions
Reaction and reactor performance
etc.
Chapter 14- Heat transfer equipment design and costs
Basic theory of heat transfer coefficients
Determination of heat transfer
Coefficients
etc.
Chapter 15- separation equipment - design and costs
Selection of suitable separation
Processes
Equipment design and costs for separation
etc.
Reference index : p. 976-978 . _ Subject index : p. 979-988
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