Reviews for Chemical Process Engineering: Design and Economics

The average rating for Chemical Process Engineering: Design and Economics based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-09-27 00:00:00 Georgia Null TODO full review of the core chapters: +/- Pragmatic design process, focusing on a known, comprehensive set of components, governed by known, comprehensive laws of chemistry. ++ Interestingly, the design process is further limited by practice: (i) only a limited set of types of chemical products need to be produced, and the industry is dominated by chemical products that are sold largely undifferentiated; (ii) most designs are validated only in simulation before production, and the validation depends on the cost of the software package used to simulate (expensive licenses) and the quality of the (often proprietary) data used to seed and calibrate the models; (iii) plants are designed either from "irreducible structures" or reduced from "superstructures" (with redundancies); (iv) building new plants is likely rare, and retrofitting plants is the major concern for designers. --- A shallow primer on the economics of plant production and operation. - A long list of concerns, by component, each focusing on an important chemical process. -- Insufficient material on clean process technologies. -- Insufficient material on safety. There exist risk models in this world...

Review # 2 was written on 2012-03-07 00:00:00 Alejandro Roque I picked this up and put it down again a few times, but I'm so glad I stuck with it. Very thoughtful and worthwhile ethnography discussing the Bhopal disaster from many perspectives. The book tackles not just the disaster but the many reactions to it: across time (immediately after and in the years and decades that follow), across communities (in India and the U.S), and from many perspectives.