Plant Design and Economics for Chemical Engineers Book

	Preface
	Prologue
Ch. 1	Introduction	1
	Chemical Engineering Plant Design	1
	General Overall Design Considerations	2
	Practical Considerations in Design	11
	Engineering Ethics in Design	13
Ch. 2	General Design Considerations	15
	Health and Safety Hazards	15
	Loss Prevention	29
	Environmental Protection	40
	Plant Location	52
	Plant Layout	56
	Plant Operation and Control	57
	Patent Considerations	62
Ch. 3	Process Design Development	67
	Development of Design Database	67
	Process Creation	69
	Process Design	72
	Process Flow Diagrams	77
	Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams	79
	Vessel and Piping Layout Isometrics	80
	Equipment Design and Specifications	81
	The Preliminary Design - A Specific Example	87
Ch. 4	Flowsheet Synthesis and Development	125
	Flowsheet Synthesis and Development	126
	Process Information	130
	Input/Output Structure	135
	Functions Diagram	137
	Operations Diagram	143
	Process Flowsheet	149
	Algorithmic Flowsheet Generation	158
	Comparison of Hierarchical and Algorithmic Results	189
	Genetic Algorithms	189
	Future Approaches to Flowsheet Synthesis and Development	190
	Software Use in Flowsheet Synthesis	190
	Analysis and Evaluation of Flowsheets	190
Ch. 5	Software Use in Process Design	196
	Software Structure	198
	Software Capabilities	204
	Software for Process Design	208
	Software Selection	216
	Software Use	216
	Avoiding Pitfalls in Software Use	220
	Evaluation of Software Results	224
Ch. 6	Analysis of Cost Estimation	226
	Cash Flow for Industrial Operations	226
	Factors Affecting Investment and Production Costs	230
	Capital Investment	232
	Estimation of Capital Investment	233
	Cost Indexes	236
	Cost Components in Capital Investment	239
	Methods for Estimating Capital Investment	249
	Estimation of Revenue	258
	Estimation of Total Product Cost	259
	Gross Profit, Net Profit, and Cash Flow	271
	Contingencies	272
Ch. 7	Interest, Time Value of Money, Taxes, and Fixed Charges	279
	Interest	279
	Cost of Capital	285
	Time Value of Money	290
	Cash Flow Patterns	292
	Compounding and Discounting Factors	297
	Income Taxes	303
	Fixed Charges	307
Ch. 8	Profitability, Alternative Investments, and Replacements	319
	Profitability Standards	320
	Methods for Calculating Profitability	322
	Alternative Investments	340
	Replacements	348
	Practical Factors in Alternative-Investment and Replacement Analysis	352
Ch. 9	Optimum Design and Design Strategy	358
	Defining the Optimization Problem	359
	Selecting an Objective Function	361
	Suboptimization	363
	Programming Optimizing Problems	364
	Optimization Solution Methodologies	379
	Optimization Applications	390
Ch. 10	Materials and Fabrication Selection	440
	Factors Contributing to Corrosion	440
	Combating Corrosion	443
	Properties of Materials	444
	Tabulated Data for Selecting Materials of Construction	457
	Selection of Materials	457
	Fabrication of Equipment	465
Ch. 11	Written and Oral Design Reports	469
	Written Reports	470
	Oral Reports	481
Ch. 12	Materials-Handling Equipment - Design and Costs	485
	Basic Concepts of Fluid Transport	485
	Piping in Fluid Transport Processes	497
	Pumping of Fluids	508
	Compression and Expansion of Fluids	520
	Agitation and Mixing of Fluids	536
	Flow Measurement of Fluids	549
	Storage and Containment of Fluids	552
	Transport of Solids	560
	Handling of Solids	572
Ch. 13	Reactor Equipment - Design and Costs	592
	Reactor Principles	594
	Development of Chemical Reaction Rate Expressions	605
	Reaction and Reactor Performance	613
	Reactor and Catalyst Equipment	616
Ch. 14	Heat-Transfer Equipment - Design and Costs	642
	Basic Theory of Heat Transfer in Exchangers	643
	Determination of Heat-Transfer Coefficients	656
	Determination of Pressure Drop in Heat Exchangers	664
	Selection of Heat Exchanger Type	669
	Design of Key Heat Exchanger Types	694
	Optimum Design of Heat Exchangers	738
	General Methods for Design of Heat Exchangers	744
Ch. 15	Separation Equipment - Design and Costs	754
	Selection of Suitable Separation Processes	755
	Equipment Design and Costs for Separating Homogeneous Mixtures	769
	Separation by Distillation	769
	Separation by Absorption and Stripping	797
	Separation by Extraction	804
	Separation Using Membranes	814
	Separation by Adsorption	824
	Equipment Design and Costs for Separating Heterogeneous Mixtures	837
	Separation by Drying	839
	Separation by Filtration	851
App. A	The International System (SI) of Units	877
App. B	Auxiliary, Utility, and Instrumentation Cost Data	890
App. C	Design Problems	899
App. D	Tables of Physical Properties and Constants	947
App. E	Heuristics for Process Equipment Design	966
App. F	Software Useful for Design	974
	Author Index	976
	Subject Index	979