Chemical Engineering Design - Elsevier

1 Chemical EngineeringDesignPrinciples, practice and Economicsof Plant and Process DesignSecond EditionGavin TowlerRay SinnottAMSTERDAM BOSTON HEIDELBERG LONDONNEW YORK OXFORD PARIS SAN DIEGOSAN FRANCISCO SINGAPORE SYDNEY TOKYOB utterworth-Heinemann is an imprint of ElsevierButterworth-Heinemann is an imprint of ElsevierThe Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford, OX5 1GB, UK225 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA 02451, USA 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reservedNo part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying,recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the Publisher.

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4 Chemical Engineering . I. Sinnott, R. K. II. '5 dc232011044962 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication DataA catalogue record for this book is available from the British information on all Butterworth-Heinemann publicationsvisit our website by:diacriTech, Chennai, IndiaPrinted in the United States of America12 13 14 15 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ContentsPreface to the Second Edition..xiHow to Use This ..xvPART 1 PROCESS DESIGNCHAPTER 1 Introduction to Design .. of Design .. Organization of a Chemical Engineering Project.. Documentation.. and Standards.. Factors ( Design Margins).. of Design .. 31 CHAPTER 2 Process Flowsheet Development.. Presentation.

5 Anatomy of a Chemical Manufacturing , Modification, and Improvement of Commercially-Proven Processes.. of Existing Plants.. of Novel Flowsheets.. Review.. Procedure for Flowsheet Development.. 98 CHAPTER 3 Utilities and Energy Efficient .. Recovery.. Stream Combustion.. Networks.. Management in Unsteady Processes.. 158 CHAPTER 4 Process .. Simulation Programs.. of Components.. of Physical Property Models.. of Unit With Recycle.. Optimization.. Simulation.. 243 CHAPTER 5 Instrumentation and Process Control.. P&I Instrumentation and Control.. Control Schemes.. , Safety Trips, and Interlocks.. Process Control.. Control Systems.

6 276 CHAPTER 6 Materials of Construction.. for Corrosion Costs.. Used Materials of Construction.. as Materials of Construction for Chemical Plant.. Materials (Silicate Materials).. Coatings.. for Corrosion .. 304 CHAPTER 7 Capital Cost Estimating.. of Capital Cost.. and Purpose of Capital Cost of Magnitude Purchased Equipment Installed Costs: The Factorial Method.. Escalation.. Factors.. Offsite Capital Costs.. Tools for Cost of Cost Estimates.. 352 CHAPTER 8 Estimating Revenues and Production Costs.. , Revenues, and Profits.. and Raw Material Prices.. Variable Production Fixed Production Costs.. Revenues and Production Costs.

7 385 CHAPTER 9 Economic Evaluation of Projects.. Flows during a Project.. Financing.. and Depreciation.. Methods for Economic Value Methods.. Cost Methods.. Analysis.. Portfolio .. 427 CHAPTER 10 Safety and Loss Prevention.. Hazards.. of Product and Process Safety.. Effect Indices.. and Operability Hazard .. 502 CHAPTER 11 General Site .. Location and Site Selection.. Considerations.. 12 Optimization in .. Design Objective.. and Degrees of of a Single Decision of Two or More Decision Programming.. Integer in Industrial .. 551 PART 2 PLANT DESIGNCHAPTER 13 Equipment Selection, Specification, and Design .

8 Of Equipment Design to Equipment Selection and Design .. 14 Design of Pressure Vessels.. Vessel Codes and Standards.. of Strength of Materials.. Design Considerations for Pressure Vessels.. Design of Thin-Walled Vessels Under Internal Pressure.. for Openings and of Vessels Subject to External of Vessels Subject to Combined Loading.. Flanged Joints.. Joint Assessment of Tests.. Storage Tanks.. 627 CHAPTER 15 Design of Reactors and Mixers.. Design : General Procedure.. of Reaction Engineering Data.. of Reaction .. and Cooling of Reacting Systems.. Reactors.. Design for Catalytic Processes.. of Bioreactors.. Batch Reactors.

9 Simulation of Actual Reactor Considerations in Reactor Design .. Cost of Reactors.. 750 CHAPTER 16 Separation of Fluids.. Separations.. Liquid Separators.. of Dissolved .. 805 CHAPTER 17 Separation Columns (Distillation, Absorption, and Extraction).. Distillation: Process Description.. Distillation: Basic principles .. Variables in Distillation.. Methods for Binary Distillation: General Considerations.. Distillation: Shortcut Methods for Stage and Distillation: Rigorous Solution Procedures(Computer Methods).. Distillation Processes.. Column Sizing.. Contactors.. Hydraulic Auxiliaries.. Extraction (Liquid Liquid Extraction).

10 Cost of Separation Columns.. 932 CHAPTER 18 Specification and Design of Solids-Handling Equipment.. of Granular Materials.. and Transport of and Mixing of Separations (Gas Cleaning).. of Solids from of Liquids from Solids (Drying).. Formation, Shaping, and Size Enlargement Processes.. Size Reduction (Comminution).. Transfer to Flowing Solid of Solids .. 19 Heat-Transfer Equipment.. Design Procedure and Theory.. Heat-Transfer Coefficient.. Factors (Dirt Factors).. and Tube Exchangers: Construction Details.. Temperature Difference (Temperature Driving Force).. and Tube Exchangers: General Design Considerations.. Heat-Transfer Coefficient and Pressure Drop (Single Phase).