Coulson & Richardson's Chemical Engineering by J.M. Coulson

Continuous distillation: process description. Separation Columns (Distillation and Absorption). Crushing and grinding (comminution) equipment. Equipment Selection, Specification and Design. Enthalpy of reaction and enthalpy of formation. Sources of information on manufacturing processes. Plastics as materials of construction for chemical plant. Computer method for costing and project evaluation. Accuracy and purpose of capital cost estimates. Computers and microprocessors in process control. Process integration and pinch technology. Forms of energy (per unit mass of material.) The energy balance. General procedure for material balance problems. The mathematical representation of the design problem. The organisation of a chemical engineering project. The anatomy of a chemical manufacturing process.

The appendices have been extended to include a computer program for energy balances, illustrations of equipment specification sheets and heat exchanger tube layout diagrams.This 2nd Edition will continue to provide undergraduate students of chemical engineering, chemical engineers in industry and chemists and mechanical engineers, who have to tackle problems arising in the process industries, with a valuable text on how a complete process is designed and how it must be fitted into the environment. Additional material has been added on heat transfer equipment agitated vessels are now covered and the discussion of fired heaters and plate heat exchangers extended. Process integration and the use of heat pumps has been included in the chapter on energy utilisation. The material on safety and loss prevention and environmental protection has been revised to cover current procedures and legislation. It includes material on flow sheeting, piping and instrumentation, mechanical design of equipment, costing and project evaluation, safety and loss prevention.

It provides a revised and updated introduction to the methodology and procedures for process design and process equipment selection and design for the chemical process and allied industries. This 2nd Edition of Coulson & Richardson's classic Chemical Engineering text provides a complete update and revision of Volume 6: An Introduction to Design.

Coulson & Richardson's Chemical Engineering by J.M. Coulson