Chemical Process Equipment: Selection and Design

by James R. Couper, Stanley M. Walas

Chemical Process Equipment is a guide to the selection and design of a wide range of chemical process equipment. Emphasis is placed on specific information concerning the process design and performance of equipment. To this end, attention is given to examples of successful applications, and a generous number of line sketches showing the functioning of equipment is included with many graphs and tables giving their actual performance. For coherence, brief reviews of perininent theory, including numerical examples to illustrate the more involved procedures, are provided in key chapters.

Professor Walas, drawing up on his many years of experience in industry and academia, provides a wealth of valuable shortcut methods, rules of thumb, and design by analogy applications. References to sources of more accurate design procedures are cited whenever they are available. To illustrate the data essential to process design, a substantial number of equipment rating forms and manufacturers' questionnaires have been collected. Because decisions often must be based on economic grounds, a short chapter on costs of equipment rounds out the book.

Serves as a guide for selecting and designing chemical process equipment.
Provides numerous examples with many graphs and tables.
Includes a chapter on equipment cost to address important economic concerns.

755 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1988

Reviews

[Niche · Rating 4 out of 5]

A pretty nice overall breakdown of what goes into pieces of equipment in chemical processing. The parts, sizing, selection, and correlations. It has a number of external references for further reading. It's organized by different types of equipment and does give a nice summary of them. My biggest complaint is probably how far tables, charts, and diagrams are from the text referencing them. It's only a handful of pages, but it makes for moving between them a bit annoying. It could be a grass is always greener, I can't say for sure if would have been nicer to have the figures and tables grouped at the end of each chapter or not. Being based off of a print copy, space would definitely be at a premium.

[Rebecca · Rating 3 out of 5]

read chapters 9&12 for a course

[Ajit Deshmukh · Rating 4 out of 5]

THis is great book