Incluye bibliografías

1. Introduction --
2. Flowsheets --
3. Process control --
4. Drivers for moving equipment --
5. Transfer of solids --
6. Flow of fluids --
7. Fluid transport equipment --
8. Heat transfer and heat exchangers --
9. Dryers and cooling towers --
10. Mixing and agitation --
11. Solid-liquid separation --
12. Desintegration, agglomeration, and size separation of particulate solids --
13. Distillation and gas absorption --
14. Extraction and leaching --
15. Adsorption and ion exchange --
16. Crystallization from solutions and melts --
17. Chemical reactors --
18. Process vessels --
19. Membrane separations --
20. Gas-solid separations --
21. Costs of individual equipment

This book is intended as a guide to the selection or design of the principal kinds of chemical process equipment by engineers in school and industry. The level of treatment assumes an elementary knowledge of unit operations and transport phenomena. Access to the many design and reference books listed in Chapter I is desir able. For coherence, brief reviews of pertinent theory are provided. Emphasis is placed on shortcuts, rules of thumb, and data for design by analogy, often as primary design processes but also for quick evaluations of detailed work. All answers to process design questions cannot be put into a book. Even at this late date in the development of the chemical industry, it is common to hear authorities on most kinds of equip ment say that their equipment can be properly fitted to a particular task only on the basis of some direct laboratory and pilot plant work. Nevertheless, much guidance and reassurance are obtainable from general experience and specific examples of successful applications, which this book attempts to provide. Much of the information is supplied in numerous tables and figures, which often deserve careful study quite apart from the text. The general background of process design, flowsheets, and process control is reviewed in the introductory chapters. The major kinds of operations and equipment are treated in individual chap ters. Information about peripheral and less widely employed equipment in chemical plants is concentrated in Chapter 19 with references to key works of as much practical value as possible. Because decisions often must be based on economic grounds, Chapter 20, on costs of equipment, rounds out the book. Appendixes provide examples of equipment rating forms and manufacturers questionnaires. Chemical process equipment is of two kinds: custom designed and built, or proprietary "off the shelf." For example, the sizes and performance of custom equipment such as distillation towers, drums, and heat exchangers are derived by the process engineer on the basis of established principles and data, although some mechanical details remain in accordance with safe practice codes and individual fabrication practices. Much proprietary equipment (such as filters, mixers, conveyors, and so on) has been developed largely without benefit of much theory and is fitted to job requirements also without benefit of much theory. From the point of view of the process engineer, such equipment is predesigned and fabricated and made available by manufacturers in limited numbers of types, sizes, and capacities. The process design of proprietary equipment, as considered in this book, establishes its required performance and is a process of selec tion from the manufacturers' offerings, often with their recommendations or on the basis of individual experience. Complete information is provided in manufacturers' catalogs. Several classified lists of manufacturers of chemical process equipment are readily accessible, so no listings are given here.