Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This book deals with the design and integration of chemical processes, emphasizing the conceptual issues that are fundamental to the creation of the process. Chemical process design requires the selection of a series of processing steps and their integration to form a complete manufacturing system. The text emphasizes both the design and selection of the steps as individual operations and their integration. Also, the process will normally operate as part of an integrated manufacturing site consisting of a number of processes serviced by a common utility system. The design of utility systems has been dealt with in the text so that the interactions between processes and the utility system and interactions between different processes through the utility system can be exploited to maximize the performance of the site as a whole.

Chemical processing should form part of a sustainable industrial activity. For chemical processing, this means that processes should use raw materials as efficiently as is economic and practicable, both to prevent the production of waste that can be environmentally harmful and to preserve the reserves of raw materials as much as possible. Processes should use as little energy as economic and practicable, both to prevent the build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels and to preserve reserves of fossil fuels. Water must also be consumed in sustainable quantities that do not cause deterioration in the quality of the water source and the long-term quantity of the reserves. Aqueous and atmospheric emissions must not be environmentally harmful, and solid waste to landfill must be avoided. Finally, all aspects of chemical processing must feature good health and safety practice.

It is important for the designer to understand the limitations of the methods used in chemical process design. The best way to understand the limitations is to understand the derivations of the equations used and the assumptions on which the equations are based. Where practical, the derivation of the design equations has been included in the text.

The book is intended to provide a practical guide to chemical process design and integration for undergraduate and postgraduate students of chemical engineering, practicing process designers and chemical engineers and applied chemists working in process development. Examples have been included throughout the text. Most of these examples do not require specialist software and can be performed on spreadsheet software. Finally, a number of exercises have been added at the end of each chapter to allow the reader to practice the calculation procedures.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface
• 1.6 New Design and Retrofit
• 1.7 Approaches to Chemical Process Design and Integration
• 1.8 Process Control
• 1.9 The Nature of Chemical Process Design and Integration - Summary
• References
• Chapter 2 Process Economics
• 2.1 The Role of Process Economics
• 2.2 Capital Cost for New Design
• 2.3 Capital Cost for Retrofit
• 2.4 Annualized Capital Cost
• Acknowledgements
• 2.5 Operating Cost
• 2.6 Simple Economic Criteria
• 2.7 Project Cash Flow and Economic Evaluation
• 2.8 Investment Criteria
• 2.9 Process Economics - Summary
• 2.10 Exercises
• References
• Chapter 3 Optimization
• 3.1 Objective Functions
• 3.2 Single-variable Optimization
• Nomenclature
• 3.3 Multivariable Optimization
• 3.4 Constrained Optimization
• 3.5 Linear Programming
• 3.6 Nonlinear Programming
• 3.7 Profile Optimization
• 3.8 Structural Optimization
• 3.9 Solution of Equations using Optimization
• 3.10 The Search for Global Optimality
• 3.11 Summary - Optimization
• 3.12 Exercises
• Chapter 1 The Nature of Chemical Process Design and Integration
• References
• Chapter 4 Thermodynamic Properties and Phase Equilibrium
• 4.1 Equations of State
• 4.2 Phase Equilibrium for Single Components
• 4.3 Fugacity and Phase Equilibrium
• 4.4 Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium
• 4.5 Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium Based on Activity Coefficient Models
• 4.6 Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium Based on Equations of State
• 4.7 Calculation of Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium
• 4.8 Liquid-Liquid Equilibrium
• 1.1 Chemical Products
• 4.9 Liquid-Liquid Equilibrium Activity Coefficient Models
• 4.10 Calculation of Liquid-Liquid Equilibrium
• 4.11 Calculation of Enthalpy
• 4.12 Calculation of Entropy
• 4.13 Phase Equilibrium and Thermodynamic Properties - Summary
• 4.14 Exercises
• References
• Chapter 5 Choice of Reactor I - Reactor Performance
• 5.1 Reaction Path
• 5.2 Types of Reaction Systems
• 1.2 Formulation of the Design Problem
• 5.3 Reactor Performance
• 5.4 Rate of Reaction
• 5.5 Idealized Reactor Models
• 5.6 Choice of Idealized Reactor Model
• 5.7 Choice of Reactor Performance
• 5.8 Choice of Reactor Performance - Summary
• 5.9 Exercises
• References
• Chapter 6 Choice of Reactor II - Reactor Conditions
• 6.1 Reaction Equilibrium
• 1.3 Chemical Process Design and Integration
• 6.2 Reactor Temperature
• 6.3 Reactor Pressure
• 6.4 Reactor Phase
• 6.5 Reactor Concentration
• 6.6 Biochemical Reactions
• 6.7 Catalysts
• 6.8 Choice of Reactor Conditions - Summary
• 6.9 Exercises
• References
• Chapter 7 Choice of Reactor III - Reactor Configuration
• 1.4 The Hierarchy of Chemical Process Design and Integration
• 7.1 Temperature Control
• 7.2 Catalyst Degradation
• 7.3 Gas-Liquid and Liquid-Liquid Reactors
• 7.4 Reactor Configuration
• 7.5 Reactor Configuration for Heterogeneous Solid-Catalyzed Reactions
• 7.6 Reactor Configuration from Optimization of a Superstructure
• 7.7 Choice of Reactor Configuration - Summary
• 7.8 Exercises
• References
• Chapter 8 Choice of Separator for Heterogeneous Mixtures
• 1.5 Continuous and Batch Processes
• 8.1 Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Separation
• 8.2 Settling and Sedimentation
• 8.3 Inertial and Centrifugal Separation
• 8.4 Electrostatic Precipita

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Professor Robin Smith is Head of the Centre for Process Integration at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) in the United Kingdom. Since joining, Professor Smith has acted extensively as a consultant in process integration projects and manages the Process Integration Research Consortium at UMIST, which sponsors and acts as a test-bed for the research in process design and integration.
Before joining UMIST Smith had extensive industrial experience with Rohm & Haas in process investigation and process design, and with ICI in computer-aided design and process integration during which time he was a member of the ICI Process Integration Team that pioneered the first industrial applications of process integration design methods.
Professor Smith is also a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers in the UK and a chartered engineer. In 1992 he was awarded the Hanson Medal of the Institution of Chemical Engineers in the UK for his work on clean process technology.