Chemical Engineering Design: SI Edition

Chemical Engineering Design: SI Edition is one of the best-known and most widely used textbooks available for students of chemical engineering. The enduring hallmarks of this classic book are its scope and practical emphasis which make it particularly popular with instructors and students who appreciate its relevance and clarity. This new edition provides coverage of the latest aspects of process design, operations, safety, loss prevention, equipment selection, and much more, including updates on plant and equipment costs, regulations and technical standards.

Includes new content covering food, pharmaceutical and biological processes and the unit operations commonly used Features expanded coverage on the design of reactorsProvides updates on plant and equipment costs, regulations and technical standardsIntegrates coverage with Honeywell’s UniSim® software for process design and simulationIncludes online access to Engineering’s Cleopatra cost estimating software

1. Introduction to design 2. Fundamentals of material balances 3. Fundamentals of energy balances (and energy utilisation) 4. Flow-sheeting 5. Piping and instrumentation 6. Costing and project evaluation 7. Materials of construction 8. Design information and data 9. Safety and loss prevention 10. Equipment selection, specification and design 11. Separation columns (distillation, absorption and extraction) 12. Heat-transfer equipment 13. Mechanical design of process equipment 14. General site considerations