Process Plant Design

Process Plant Design

An introductory practical guide to process plant design for students of chemical engineering and practicing chemical engineers.

Process Plant Design provides an introductory practical guide to the subject for undergraduate and postgraduate students of chemical engineering, and practicing chemical engineers.

• Process Plant Design starts by presenting general background from the early stages of chemical process projects and moves on to deal with the infrastructure required to support the operation of process plants.
• The reliability, maintainability and availability issues addressed in the text are important for process safety, and the avoidance of high maintenance costs, adverse environmental impact, and unnecessary process breakdowns that might prevent production targets being achieved.
• A practical approach is presented for the systematic synthesis of process control schemes, which has traditionally received little attention, especially when considering overall process control systems.
• The development of preliminary piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs) is addressed, which are key documents in process engineering.
• A guide is presented for the choice of materials of construction, which affects resistance to corrosion, mechanical design and the capital cost of equipment.
• Whilst the final mechanical design of vessels and equipment is normally carried out by specialist mechanical engineers, it is still necessary for process designers to have an understanding of mechanical design for a variety of reasons.
• Finally, Process Plant Design considers layout, which has important implications for safety, environmental impact, and capital and operating costs.

To aid reader comprehension, Process Plant Design features worked examples throughout the text.

Process Plant Design is a valuable resource on the subject for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of chemical engineering, as well as practicing chemical engineers working in process design. The text is also useful for industrial disciplines related to chemical engineering working on the design of chemical processes.

Auteur

Professor Robin Smith is Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Manchester. Before joining the University of Manchester he gained extensive industrial experience with different companies in process investigation, production, process design, process modelling and process integration. He has co-founded three spin-out companies from the University of Manchester and has acted extensively as a consultant to industry. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers in the UK and a Chartered Engineer. He has published widely in the field of process integration and is author of "Chemical Process Design and Integration", published by Wiley. He was awarded the Hanson Medal of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, UK for his work on waste minimization, and the Sargent Medal for his work on process integration.

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Thorough treatment of process plant layout providing a systematic approach to the synthesis of control systems for overall processes Process Plant Design is a practical guide to chemical engineering process plant design, particularly in relation to design projects, giving an up-to-date approach to the structure of process design projects as practiced industrially and exploring the wider issues of process design in terms of the services (utilities) required to make a practical process design function. The text allows chemical engineering students to gain an understanding of reliability, maintainability, and availability in relation to the subject, enabling them to specify with confidence the use of standby equipment, redundancy, reliability required of safety equipment, required availability to meet production targets, and the use of storage to achieve the required process availability. To aid in reader comprehension, Process Plant Design features worked examples within the text and exercises at the end of some chapters with solutions available via supporting website. Written by a renowned author with a proven track record in textbooks for chemical engineering students, Process Plant Design contains information on: Chemical process projects, development of process design concepts, heating and cooling utilities, and waste treatment systems Piping and instrumentation diagram (P&ID) development, I.E. The most important document in the industrial practice of chemical engineering that must be developed for all design projects Flow rate and inventory control, degrees of freedom, control of process operations, and overall process control Piping and pressure relief, process operations, construction, mechanical design, site layout, and process layout Process Plant Design is a highly valuable resource on the subject for final year undergraduate students, as well as practicing chemical engineers working in engineering, procurement, and construction. The text is also useful for industrial disciplines related to chemical engineering working in engineering, procurement, and construction of chemical processes.

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Preface Acknowledgements Nomenclature Chapter 1 Execution of Chemical Process Projects 1.1 The Process Design Problem 1.2 Continuous and Batch Processes 1.3 New Design and Retrofit 1.4 Hazard Management in Process Design 1.5 Project Phases 1.6 Chemical Process Projects - Summary References Chapter 2 Process Economics 2.1 Capital Cost Estimates 2.2 Class 5 Capital Cost Estimates 2.3 Class 4 Capital Cost Estimates 2.4 Class 3 to Class 1 Capital Cost Estimates 2.5 Capital Cost for Retrofit 2.6 Annulalized Capital Cost 2.7 Operating Cost 2.8 Economic Evaluation 2.9 Investment Criteria 2.10 Process Economics - Summary 2.11 Exercises References Chapter 3 Development of Process Design Concepts 3.1 Formulation of Design Problems 3.2 Evaluation of Design Performance 3.3 Optimization of Performance 3.4 Approaches to the Development of Design Concepts 3.5 Screening of Design Options 3.6 Influencing the Design as the Project Progresses 3.7 Development of Process Design Concepts - Summary References Chapter 4 Heating Utilities 4.1 Process Heating and Cooling 4.2 Steam Heating 4.3 Water Treatment for Steam Generation 4.4 Steam Generation from the Combustion of Fuels 4.5 Steam Generation from Electrical Energy 4.6 Gas Turbines 4.7 Steam Turbines 4.8 Steam Distribution 4.9 Steam Heating Limits 4.10 Fired Heaters 4.11 Other Heat Carriers 4.12 Heating Utilities - Summary 4.13 Exercises References Chapter 5 Cooling Utilities 5.1 Waste Heat Steam Generation 5.2 Once Through Cooling Water Systems 5.3 Recirculating Cooling Water Systems 5.4 Air Coolers 5.5 Refrigeration 5.6 Choice of Single Component Refrigerant for Compression Refrigeration 5.7 Mixed Refrigerants for Compression Refrigeration 5.8 Absorption Refrigeration 5.9 Indirect Refrigeration 5.10 Cooling Utilities - Summary 5.11 Exercises References Chapter 6 Waste Treatment 6.1 Aqueous Emissions 6.2 Primary Wastewater Treatment Processes 6.3 Biological Wastewater Treatment Processes 6.4 Tertiary Wastewater Treatment Processes 6.5 Atmospheric Emissions 6.6 Treatment of Solid Particulate Emissions to Atmosphere 6.7 Treatment of VOC Emissions to Atmosphere 6.8 Treatment of Sulfur Emissions to Atmosphere 6.9 Treatment of Oxides of Nitrogen Emissions to Atmosphere 6.10 Treatment of Combustion Emissions to Atmosphere 6.11 Atmospheric Dispersion 6.12 Waste Treatment - Summary 6.13 Exercises References Chapter 7 Reliability, Maintainability and Availability Concepts 7.1 Reliability, Maintainability and Availability 7.2 Reliability 7.3 Repairable and Non-repairable Systems 7.4 Reliability Data 7.5 Maintainability 7.6 Availability 7.7 Process Shutdown for Maintenance 7.8 Reliability, Maintainability and Availability - Summary 7.9 Exercises R…