Analysis, Synthesis, and Design of Chemical Processes

More than ever, effective design is the focal point of sound chemical engineering. Analysis, Synthesis, and Design of Chemical Processes, 5th Edition, presents design as a creative process that integrates the big-picture and small details, and knows which to stress when and why. Realistic from start to finish, it moves readers beyond classroom exercises into open-ended, real-world problem solving. The authors introduce up-to-date, integrated techniques ranging from finance to operations, and new plant design to existing process optimisation.

Coverage includes updated safety and ethics resources and economic factors indices, as well as an extensive section focused on process equipment design and performance, covering equipment design for common unit operations, such as fluid flow, heat transfer, separations, reactors, and more. For each equipment type, it presents design rationales and correlations; rating, sizing, and mechanical considerations; performance assessment techniques; illustrative examples, and full sample designs.

• Conceptualisation and analysis: process diagrams, configurations, batch processing, product design, and analysing existing processes
• Economic analysis: estimating fixed capital investment and manufacturing costs, measuring process profitability, and more
• Synthesis and optimisation: process simulation, thermodynamic models, separation operations, heat integration, steady-state and dynamic process simulators, and process regulation
• Chemical equipment design and performance: a full section of expanded and revamped coverage of designing process equipment and evaluating current equipment
• Societal impacts: ethics, professionalism, health, safety, environmental issues, and green engineering
• Interpersonal and communication skills: working in teams, communicating effectively, and writing better reports

This text draws on a combined 55 years of innovative instruction at West Virginia University (WVU) and the University of Nevada, Reno. It includes suggested curricula for one- and two-semester design courses, case studies, projects, equipment cost data, and extensive preliminary design information for jump-starting more detailed analyses.