Chemical Engineering Design: Principles, Practice and Economics of Plant and Process Design

• Provides students with a text of unmatched relevance for chemical process and plant design courses and for the final year capstone design course
• Written by practicing design engineers with extensive undergraduate teaching experience
• Contains more than 100 typical industrial design projects drawn from a diverse range of process industries

NEW TO THIS EDITION

• Includes new content covering food, pharmaceutical and biological processes and commonly used unit operations
• Provides updates on plant and equipment costs, regulations and technical standards
• Includes limited online access for students to Cost Engineering’s Cleopatra Enterprise cost estimating software

Gavin has 20 years of broad experience of process and product design and has 65 US patents. He is co-author of “Chemical Engineering Design”, a textbook on process design, and is an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University, where he teaches the senior design classes.

Gavin has a B.A. and M.Eng. in chemical engineering from Cambridge University and a Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley. He is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institute of Chemical Engineers, and is a Fellow of the AIChE.

After his career in industry he joined the Chemical Engineering Department, University of Wales Swansea in 1970, specialising in teaching process and plant design, and other engineering practice subjects.

The first edition of Chemical Engineering Design (Coulson and Richardson’s Vol 6) was published in 1983. Subsequent editions have been published at approximately 5 year intervals.

Ray Sinnott retired from full time teaching in 1995 but has maintained close contact with the engineering profession.