Written by a highly regarded author with industrial and academic experience, this new edition of an established bestselling book provides practical guidance for students, researchers, and those in chemical engineering. The book includes a new section on sustainable energy, with sections on carbon capture and sequestration, as a result of increasing environmental awareness; and a companion website that includes problems, worked solutions, and Excel spreadsheets to enable students to carry out complex calculations.
Table of Contents:
Preface xiii
Acknowledgements xv
Nomenclature xvii
1 The Nature of Chemical Process Design and Integration 1
2 Process Economics 19
3 Optimization 37
4 Chemical Reactors I – Reactor Performance 59
5 Chemical Reactors II – Reactor Conditions 81
6 Chemical Reactors III – Reactor Configuration 107
7 Separation of Heterogeneous Mixtures 125
8 Separation of Homogeneous Fluid Mixtures I – Distillation 139
9 Separation of Homogeneous Fluid Mixtures II – Other Methods 185
10 Distillation Sequencing 221
11 Distillation Sequencing for Azeotropic Distillation 247
12 Heat Exchange 275
13 Pumping and Compression 349
14 Continuous Process Recycle Structure 377
15 Continuous Process Simulation and Optimization 393
16 Batch Processes 417
17 Heat Exchanger Networks I – Network Targets 457
18 Heat Exchanger Networks II – Network Design 501
19 Heat Exchanger Networks III – Stream Data 543
20 Heat Integration of Reactors 555
21 Heat Integration of Distillation 563
22 Heat Integration of Evaporators and Dryers 577
23 Steam Systems and Cogeneration 583
24 Cooling and Refrigeration Systems 647
25 Environmental Design for Atmospheric Emissions 687
26 Water System Design 721
27 Environmental Sustainability in Chemical Production 781
28 Process Safety 811
Appendix A Physical Properties in Process Design 827
Appendix B Materials of Construction 853
Appendix C Annualization of Capital Cost 861
Appendix D The Maximum Thermal Effectiveness for 1–2 Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers 863
Appendix E Expression for the Minimum Number of 1–2 Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers for a Given
Unit 865
Appendix F Heat Transfer Coefficient and Pressure Drop in Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers 867
Appendix G Gas Compression Theory 875
Appendix H Algorithm for the Heat Exchanger Network Area Target 881
Index 883
About the Author :
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. Before joining UMIST he had extensive industrial experience with Rohm & Haas in process investigation and process design, and with ICI in computer-aided design and process integration. He was a member of the ICI Process Integration Team that pioneered the first industrial applications of process integration design methods. Since joining UMIST he has acted extensively as a consultant in process integration projects. He has published widely in the field of chemical process design and integration, and is 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.
