Product and Process Design Principles: Synthesis, Analysis and Design

This text and accompanying website software present the steps for designing chemical products and processes, beginning with societal needs. Emphasis is placed on quantitative problem solving, including the use of heuristics, simulation, and optimization. The latest design strategies are described, most of which have been improved significantly with the advent of computers, mathematical programming methods, and artificial intelligence.

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction to Chemical Product Design 1S Supplement to Chapter 1 2. Product-Development Process PART 1 BASIC CHEMICALS PRODUCT DESIGN 3. Materials Technology for Basic Chemicals: Molecular-Structure Design 3S Supplement to Chapter 3 4. Process Creation for Basic Chemicals 5. Simulation to Assist in Process Creation 6. Heuristics for Process Synthesis 7. Reactor Design and Synthesis of Networks Containing Reactors 7S Supplement to Chapter 7 8. Synthesis of Separation Trains 9. Heat and Power Integration 9S Suppliment to Chapter 9 Second Law Analysis 10. Mass Integration 11. Optimal Design and Scheduling of Batch Processes 12. Plantwide Controllability Assessment 12S Supplement to Chapter 12 Flowsheet Controllability Analysis 13. Basic Chemicals Product Design Case Studies PART 2 INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS PRODUCT DESIGN 14. Materials and Process/Manufacturing Technologies for Industrial Chemical Products 15. Industrial Chemicals Product Design Case Studies PART 3 CONFIGURED CONSUMER PRODUCT DESIGN 16. Materials, Process/Manufacturing, and Product Technologies for Con¿¿?gured Consumer Products 16S Supplement to Chapter 16 17. Con¿¿?gured Consumer Product Design Case Studies PART 4 DETAILED DESIGN, EQUIPMENT SIZING, OPTIMIZATION, AND PRODUCT-QUALITY ANALYSIS 18. Heat Exchanger Design 19. Separation Tower Design 20. Pumps, Compressors, and Expanders 21. Polymer Compounding 22. Cost Accounting and Capital Cost Estimation 22S Supplement to Chapter 22 23. Annual Costs, Earnings, and Pro¿¿?tability Analysis 23S Supplement to Chapter 23 24. Design Optimization 25. Six-Sigma Design Strategies PART 5 DESIGN REPORT 26. Written Reports and Oral Presentations APPENDIXES INDICES

About the Author :
Wareen D. Seider is Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He received a B.S. degree from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan. Seider has contributed to the fields of process analysis, simulation, design, and control. He co-authored FLOWTRAN. Simulation: An Introduction in 1974 and has coauthored the design course at Penn for over 20 years involving projects provided by many practicing engineers in the Philadelphia area. He has authored or coauthored over 80 journal articles and authored or edited six books. J.D. Seader is Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Utah. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. From 1952 to 1959, he designed processes for Chevron Research and directed the development of one of the first computer-aided process design programs. From 1959 to 1965, he conducted rocket engine research for Rocketdyne on all of the engines that took astronauts to the moon. Before joining the faculty at the University of Utah in 1966, Saeder was a professor at the University of Idaho. He is the author or coauthor of 109 technical articles, seven books, and four patents. Daniel R. Lewin is Professor of Chemical Engineering and the director of the Process Systems Engineering (PSE) research group at the Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology. He received his B.Sc. from the University of Edinburgh and his D.Sc. from the Technion. His research focuses on the interaction of Process design and process control and operations, with emphasis on model-based methods. He has authored and coauthored over 90 Technical publications in the area of process systems engineering, as well as the first edition of this textbook, and the multimedia CD that accompanies it.