Process Design for Chemical and Environmental Engineering

Process design of equipment require a comprehensive knowledge of various subjects taught to chemical engineering students. Necessity of finding a book discussing design methodology with illustrations for separators, mixers, heat exchangers and chemical reactors used not only by chemical engineers but other engineers engaged in other allied branches such as environmental engineers. The book tries to fill this gap. In the era of fast computing power available to students, it has been attempted to avoid the use of design data in graphical format and use correlations. Solved problems for heat exchangers, reboilers, evaporators, distillation column, gas absorbers, fluidised bed catalytic reactors, bubble column reactors, mechanically agitated vessels and many other are illustrated with optimisation of design parameters. Contents 1. Introduction to Process Design 2. Process Design Fundamentals 3. Design of Heat Exchangers 4. Mass Transfer Equipment 5. Solid-Liquid and Liquid-Liquid Extraction 6. Humidification, Dehumidification and Drying 7. Reactor Design About the Author Ashok Kumar Verma retired in 2019, as a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology at the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) Varanasi. He held the post of Head of the department, Library Incharge, Chairman Design and Innovation Hub at IIT(BHU). Dr Verma holds a BSc degree from Allahabad University, a BE degree in chemical engineering from University of Roorkee (now Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee), a ME degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore, and a PhD in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Dr Verma joined the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi [now known as Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi] in 1984. He carried out postdoctoral research at the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois, Chicago. His research experienc.…