TABLE OF CONTENTS This book has been written primarily for students in undergraduate courses in chemical engineering and has particular relevance to their senior design projects. It should also be of interest to new graduates working in industry who find they need to broaden their knowledge of unit operations and design. Some of the earlier chapters of the book can also be used in introductory chemical engineering classes and by other disciplines in the chemical and process industries.
Chapters 1 to 9 and 14 cover the basic material for a course on process design and include an explanation of the design method, including considerations of safety, costing, and materials selection. Chapters 2, 3, and 8 contain a lot of background material that should have been covered in earlier courses and can be quickly skimmed as a reminder. If time is short, Chapters 4, 6, and 9 deserve the most emphasis. Chapters 10 to 13 cover equipment selection and design, including mechanical aspects of equipment design. These important subjects are often neglected in the chemical engineering curriculum. The equipment chapters can be used as the basis for a second course in design or as supplementary material in a process design class.
The material in Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 6 does not require any prior knowledge of chemical engineering and can be used as an introductory course in chemical engineering. Much of the material in Chapters 7, 9, 10, and 14 could...
