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An Applied Guide to Process and Plant Design 2e

I finished my first rough draft of the second edition of "An Applied Guide to Process and Plant Design" last Friday.

Many revisions to go until submission, but its a long time until December, and more than a year until its in the shops.

The cheapest way to get a copy of eth first edition is via my ebay site here: https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/expertengi...

Sean Moran Blogger Chemical Engineer Author Professor Former IChemE Council Member Voice of Chemical Engineering

I have a number of blogs, reflecting my various roles. I am a chemical engineer, (who still actually engineers things). I am also a university lecturer /professor, and an author, and I was involved heavily in the past in the Institution of Chemical Engineers, though I resigned my position on the IChemE's ruling council, and eventually resigned from the IChemE entirely in protest at their behaviour as an organisation.

This blog is mostly to do with my work for Expertise Limited, the company through which I design and troubleshoot process plants, do expert witness work, and provide training services. I have a Goodreads blog and a couple of Amazon author pages (here and here) where I exclusively discuss my books.

I write opinion pieces on LinkedIn and on Elsevier's site, mainly about issues to do with the subject of my books and teaching, though these sometimes touch on issues to do with IChemE and more broadly the engineering establishment. My main concerns with respect to engineering education are that there are too many graduates being produced worldwide and they have too few useful skills. This may suit big business, academia and the engineering establishment, but it isn't fair on the kids.

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Water Treatment Plant Design and Operation Training from Sean Moran

More progress on the training front this week. We are firming up on an in-depth two week course on desalination using membranes in the UK for an overseas client, and talking to people in Africa, India, the Arabian Gulf and the Caribbean about other courses.

As far as real engineering work is concerned, we are awaiting the Environment Agency's determination of our application for a variation to a consent to discharge treated trade effluent to environment, to allow final design of a new treatment plant.

I'm expecting to have finished my first pass at Edition 2 of my first IChemE book, "An Applied Guide to Process and Plant Design" today. As I usually submit around revision 8, still a long way to go.

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Is Water Engineering Training Back?

Came back from holiday to a fair number of training enquiries. A mixed bag of water treatment, process safety, and data analysis (which I do a lot of, but never taught outside a university before). All new overseas clients, mostly related to the oil and gas industry. We will see if anything comes of it.

Other than that, I've been busy writing, and I've sold quite a few copies of my first book on the back of a series of linked in articles I've been publishing.

The EA have started their modelling exercise for the upgrade to the commercial effluent treatment plant. I think I can guess the result, but I'm willing to be surprised...

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Training: Water Process Plant Design

We had a few training enquiries this week. It looks like the training market is finally coming back a bit.

I used to do a few courses a year in the middle and far east, but the oil price crash put that on hold for a few years (at least at rates attractive to UK engineers)

It will be nice to get back. I'm sure Abu Dhabi, Qatar and Dubai have changed a bit since I was last there.

Meanwhile, I seem to be on the home straight with the EA with respect to the effluent treatment plant upgrade paperwork. I'm going to send out lots of emails today for people to come back from holiday to....

Sean Moran Chemical Engineer Water Expert

Another week of water engineering for me. Practicing it, writing about it, and teaching it as usual.

A few frustrations with the Environment Agency, but by yesterday, the various parts of the Agency were talking to each other....

Water Treatment Engineering Expert

Our various expert witness jobs are all concluded for now. It's been another week of teaching, writing and treatment plant design, as usual working in the field of water and effluent treatment engineering.

I've been writing the extended abstract for my PhD on chemical engineering education this week. Again. Rev 5 now. I don't find the turgid style required a job to write in. Expert reports are page-turners by comparison, but these are the hoops academia sets out for us...

Feedback from the Master's students at Chester is gratifyingly excellent, which is nice...

Sean Moran and The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE)

My latest IChemE book, "An Applied Guide to Water and Effluent Treatment Plant Design" is in press, and will be available in June.

I have produced three books for the Institution of Chemical Engineers (#IChemE) now, but we have parted company recently. I have one last IChemE book to produce, a second edition of "An Applied Guide to Process and Plant Design"

I have however resigned from the IChemE itself, in protest at its direction of travel, just as I resigned as a trustee from its ruling council earlier in the year. I have transferred my Chartered Engineer registration to CIWEM.

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Effluent Treatment Plant Upgrade

I'm just about to head out for an early morning meeting in North Yorkshire to discuss fine detail of my design for an upgrade to a commercial effluent treatment plant.

Teaching and writing are fine, but its good to get out on site, and do some real engineering.

Water Engineering Expert

I've been marking water engineering design coursework from chemical engineering students at Chester this week. It's the first year of a new master's level module, and I'm very pleased with the work.

I also made it through the beast from the east to teach water engineering at Manchester on Tuesday. They are doing well too.

Real engineering however suffered. I have had to cancel today's site visit to discuss an effluent treatment plant upgrade with client and contractors. Hopefully it'll happen next Friday...