Chemical Process Equipment: Selection and Design, Second Edition

by James R. Couper, W. Roy Penney, James R. Fair PhD

A facility is only as efficient and profitable as the equipment that is in this highly influential book is a powerful resource for chemical, process, or plant engineers who need to select, design or configures plant sucessfully and profitably. It includes updated information on design methods for all standard equipment, with an emphasis on real-world process design and performance.

832 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