Chemical Process Design - Hardcover

Robin M. Smith

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0070592209 ISBN 13: 9780070592209

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, 1994

Synopsis

Chemical process design involves the invention or synthesis of a process to transform raw materials into a desired product. Using a minimum of mathematics, this book offers chemical engineers a complete guide to selecting and connecting the steps for a well-designed process. Flowsheet synthesis, the choice of reactor and separator, distillation sequencing, and economic trade-offs are explored in detail. Special emphasis is placed on energy efficiency, waste minimization, and health and safety considerations, with worked examples and case studies presented to illustrate important points.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The Concept Chemical processing should form part of a sustainable industrial activity. For chemical processing, this means that processes should use raw materials as efficiently as is economic and practicable, both to prevent the production of waste that can be environmentally harmful and to preserve the reserves of raw materials as much as possible. Processes should use as little energy as economic and practicable, both to prevent the build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels and to preserve reserves of fossil fuels. Water must also be consumed in sustainable quantities. Aqueous and atmospheric emissions must not be environmentally harmful, and solid waste to landfill must be avoided. Finally, all aspects of chemical processing must feature good health and safety practice.

The Book is intended to be a textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students of chemical engineering, and to be a practical guide for practicing process designers and chemical engineers and applied chemists working in process development.

Chemical Process Design and Integration deals in detail with the design and integration of chemical processes, emphasizing the conceptual issues. Chemical process design requires the selection of a series of processing steps and their integration to form a complete manufacturing system. The text emphasizes both the design and selection of the steps as individual operations and their integration. The design of utility systems has been dealt with in the text so that the interactions between processes and the utility system and interactions between different processes through the utility system can be exploited to maximize the performance of the site as a whole. Chemical Process Design and Integration offers:

• A combination of comprehensive textbook and practical guide
• A wide range of process technologies
• Details of the latest process integration design methods
• Emphasizes sustainable process development
• A practical guide to clean process technology
• Comprehensive coverage of the design of energy and water systems
• A guide to the inclusion of inherent safety in chemical process design
• Large number of worked examples and class exercises

About the Author:

Professor Robin Smith is Head of the Centre for Process Integration at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) in the United Kingdom. Since joining, Professor Smith has acted extensively as a consultant in process integration projects and manages the Process Integration Research Consortium at UMIST, which sponsors and acts as a test-bed for the research in process design and integration.
Before joining UMIST Smith had extensive industrial experience with Rohm & Haas in process investigation and process design, and with ICI in computer-aided design and process integration during which time he was a member of the ICI Process Integration Team that pioneered the first industrial applications of process integration design methods.
Professor Smith is also a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers in the UK and a chartered engineer. In 1992 he was awarded the Hanson Medal of the Institution of Chemical Engineers in the UK for his work on clean process technology.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0070592209
• ISBN 13: 9780070592209
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 459