Process Equipment Design

Process Equipment Design
by: Lloyd E. Brownell, Edwin H. Young -Part1
Process Equipment Design
by: Lloyd E. Brownell, Edwin H. Young -Part2


Description

"Process Equipment Design" focuses on the mechanical design of vessels used in the chemical processing industry.
By addressing an area where chemical engineers are typically weak, this book will be an extremely useful reference for engineers with a "less than structured" mechanical support team and for those you do have good mechanical support at work, this book will help you understand the mechanical limitations of the equipment that you specify.
The book is divided into the following main sections:

Factors Influencing the Design of Vessels
Criteria in Vessel Design
Design of Shells for Flat-Bottomed Cylindrical Vessels
Design of Bottoms and Roofs for Flat-Bottomed Cylindrical Vessels
Proportioning and Head Selection for Cylindrical Vessels with Formed Closures
Stress Considerations in the Selection of Flat-Plate and Conical Closures for Cylindrical Vessels
Stress Considerations in the Selection of Elliptical, Torispherical, and Hemispherical Dished Closure for Cylindrical Vessels
Design of Cylindrical Vessels with Formed Closures Operating under External Pressure
Design of Tall Vertical Vessels
Design of Supports for Vertical Vessels
Design of Horizontal Vessels with Saddle Supports
Design of Flanges
Design of Pressure Vessels to Code Specifications
High-Pressure Monobloc Vessels
Multilayer Vessels
References
Appendix A: Design Conventions
Appendix B: Welding Conventions
Appendix C: Pricing of Steel Plates
Appendix D: Allowable Stresses
Appendix E: Typical Tank Sizes and Capacities
Appendix F: Shell Accessories
Appendix G: Properties of Selected Rolled Structural Members
Appendix H: Values of Constant C of Eq. 13.27
Appendix I: Charts for Determining Shell Thickness of Cylindrical and Spherical Vessels under External Pressure
Appendix J: Properties of Various Sections and Beam Formulas
Appendix K: Properties of Pipe
Appendix L: Strength of Materials

Layout: The book is organized is way that takes the reader through the learning process step by step. We particularily liked how the authors sectioned the book based on the type of vessel being designed. The use of equations followed by easy-to-use charts was very nice to see.

Modeling in Transport Phenomena,A Conceptual Approach

Modeling in Transport Phenomena, Second Edition: A Conceptual Approach
by: Ismail Tosun

Book Description:

Modeling in Transport Phenomena, Second Edition presents and clearly explains with example problems the basic concepts and their applications to fluid flow, heat transfer, mass transfer, chemical reaction engineering and thermodynamics. A balanced approach is presented between analysis and synthesis, students will understand how to use the solution in engineering analysis. Systematic derivations of the equations and the physical significance of each term are given in detail, for students to easily understand and follow up the material.

There is a strong incentive in science and engineering to understand why a phenomenon behaves the way it does. For this purpose, a complicated real-life problem is transformed into a mathematically tractable problem while preserving the essential features of it. Such a process, known as mathematical modeling, requires understanding of the basic concepts. This book teaches students these basic concepts and shows the similarities between them. Answers to all problems are provided allowing students to check their solutions. Emphasis is on how to get the model equation representing a physical phenomenon and not on exploiting various numerical techniques to solve mathematical equations.

* A balanced approach is presented between analysis and synthesis, students will understand how to use the solution in engineering analysis.
* Systematic derivations of the equations as well as the physical significance of each term are given in detail
* Many more problems and examples are given than in the first edition - answers provided

Transport Phenomena for Chemical Reactor Design

Transport Phenomena for Chemical Reactor Design
by: Laurence A. Belfiore


Description:

Laurence Belfiore’s unique treatment meshes two mainstream subject areas in chemical engineering: transport phenomena and chemical reactor design. Expressly intended as an extension of Bird, Stewart, and Lightfoot’s classic Transport Phenomena, and Froment and Bischoff’s Chemical Reactor Analysis and Design, Second Edition, Belfiore’s unprecedented text explores the synthesis of these two disciplines in a manner the upper undergraduate or graduate reader can readily grasp.

Transport Phenomena for Chemical Reactor Design approaches the design of chemical reactors from microscopic heat and mass transfer principles. It includes simultaneous consideration of kinetics and heat transfer, both critical to the performance of real chemical reactors. Complementary topics in transport phenomena and thermodynamics that provide support for chemical reactor analysis are covered, including:
Fluid dynamics in the creeping and potential flow regimes around solid spheres and gas bubbles
The corresponding mass transfer problems that employ velocity profiles, derived in the book’s fluid dynamics chapter, to calculate interphase heat and mass transfer coefficients
Heat capacities of ideal gases via statistical thermodynamics to calculate Prandtl numbers
Thermodynamic stability criteria for homogeneous mixtures that reveal that binary molecular diffusion coefficients must be positive

In addition to its comprehensive treatment, the text also contains 484 problems and ninety-six detailed solutions to assist in the exploration of the subject. Graduate and advanced undergraduate chemical engineering students, professors, and researchers will appreciate the vision, innovation, and practical application of Laurence Belfiore’s Transport Phenomena for Chemical Reactor Design.

Transport Phenomena

Transport Phenomena, 2nd Edition
by: R. Byron Bird


Description

Transport Phenomenon by Bird, Stewart and Lightfoot is one of the most useful chemical engineering textbook ever written. For nearly five decades now, many chemical engineers have lived by what they learned first through this book. The revised edition makes the book current, though 1960 edition is great introduction to the mass, heat and energy and/or momentum transfer problems.

The basis idea of the book is simple: list the equations useful for a system of problems, say in mass transfer; provide set of assumptions used to arrive at those; suggest possible solutions to the differential equations for practical industry conditions; use correlations derived by researchers where real time data is unavailable and lastly, learn how to adapt solutions for different set of conditions. The book attempts to make problem solving into a set of instructions to be followed, and by sticking to the fundamental assumptions and equations allows one to attack a range of problems relevant to fields as diverse as diffusion transport, biochemical processes, condensation problems for atmospheric physics, chemical kinetics, heat conduction, petroleum extraction and flow of fluids relevant to many processing industries.

We often hailed it as the Bible of Chemical Engineering. Every now and then, (nearly a decade after we first read it) I still hear people say: this problem, or something like it, was in BSL, (the acronym awarded to the book after its authors). Be it Transport texts by Deen or Middleman typically used for graduate school courses, or Incompressible Flow by Patton, the recourse to understanding problems first hand through BSL is always rewarding.

The book comes with a number of solved and unsolved problems. There is no short-cut to becoming a good chemical engineer, except by mastering the art and science of attacking problems. By going through the book meticulously right in your first course, (for in most cases, this is the first chemical engineering text encountered), you can ensure that you will do well in your whole education as chemical engineer.

Recommended reference for all chemical engineers.

Conservation Equations and Modeling of Chemical and Biochemical Processes

Conservation Equations and Modeling of Chemical and Biochemical Processes (Chemical Industries)
by: Said S.E.H. Elnashaie Parag Garhyan

Description

Presenting strategies in control policies, this text uses a systems theory approach to predict, simulate and streamline plant operation, conserve fuel and resources, and increase workplace safety in the manufacturing, chemical, petrochemical, petroleum, biochemical and energy industries. Topics of discussion include system theory and chemical/biochemical engineering systems, steady state, unsteady state, and thermodynamic equilibrium, modeling of systems, fundamental laws governing the processes in terms of the state variables, different classifications of physical models, the story of chemical engineering in relation to system theory and mathematical modeling, overall heat balance with single and multiple chemical reactions and single and multiple reactions.

Table of Contents
Preface
1 System Theory and Chemical/Biochemical Engineering Systems 1
2 Material and Energy Balances 41
3 Mathematical Modeling (I): Homogeneous Lumped Systems 167
4 Mathematical Modeling (II): Homogeneous Distributed Systems and Unsteady-State Behavior 265
5 Process Dynamics and Control 317
6 Heterogeneous Systems 433
7 Practical Relevance of Bifurcation, Instability, and Chaos in Chemical and Biochemical Systems 515
8 Novel Designs for Industrial Chemical/Biochemical Systems 545
App. A Matrices and Matrix Algebra 567
App. B Numerical Methods 589
App. C Analytical Solution of Differential Equations 607
App. D Table of Laplace Transform of Some Common Functions 615
App. E Orthogonal Collocation Technique 619
App. F Some Software and Programming Environments 627
Index 631