Chemical Process Equipment: Selection and Design

Chemical Process Equipment is a results-oriented reference for engineers who specify, design, maintain or run chemical and process plants. This book delivers information on the selection, sizing and operation of process equipment in a format that enables quick and accurate decision making on standard process and equipment choices, saving time, improving productivity, and building understanding. Coverage emphasizes common real-world equipment design rather than experimental or esoteric and focuses on maximizing performance.

• Legacy reference for chemical and related engineers who work with vendors to design, specify and make final equipment selection decisions
• Copious examples of successful applications, with supporting schematics and data to illustrate the functioning and performance of equipment
• Provides equipment rating forms and manufacturers’ data, worked examples, valuable shortcut methods, and rules of thumb to demonstrate and support the design process
• Heavily illustrated with line drawings and schematics to aid understanding, as well as graphs and tables to illustrate performance data

James R. Couper, D.Sc. is Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Unviersity of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR.

W. Roy Penney, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, has taught graduate courses in Fluid Mixing for the last 25 years and he taught the AIChE “Industrial Fluid Mixing” course for 15 years. He spent 25 years in industry where he was involved in experimental and design work involving fluid mixing equipment. For the last 30 years he has had an academic career where he taught and researched fluid mixing technology. He consulted in the area of fluid mixing for several companies, including Chemineer, Dow Corning, Conoco, Unique Tire, Energy Transfer Partners et al. Dr. Penney is author or coauthor of over 60 papers, Patents and lectures and three books. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He has registration as a Professional Engineer in Missouri and Arkansas.