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Working Guide to Process Equipment, Third Edition: (English)

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Diagnose and Troubleshoot Problems in Chemical Process Equipment with This Updated Classic!

Chemical engineers and plant operators can rely on the Third Edition of A Working Guide to Process Equipment for the latest diagnostic tips, practical examples, and detailed illustrations for pinpointing trouble and correcting problems in chemical process equipment. This updated classic contains new chapters on Control Valves, Cooling Towers, Waste Heat Boilers, Catalytic Effects, Fundamental Concepts of Process Equipment, and Process Safety.

Filled with worked-out calculations, the book examines everything from trays, reboilers, instruments, air coolers, and steam turbines…to fired heaters, refrigeration systems, centrifugal pumps, separators, and compressors. The authors simplify complex issues and explain the technical issues needed to solve all kinds of equipment problems. Comprehensive and clear, the Third Edition of A Working Guide to Process Equipment features:

  • Guidance on diagnosing and troubleshooting process equipment problems
  • Explanations of how theory applies to real-world equipment operations
  • Many useful tips, examples, illustrations, and worked-out calculations
  • New to this edition: Control Valves, Cooling Towers, Waste Heat Boilers, Catalytic Effects, and Process Safety

Inside this Renowned Guide to Solving Process Equipment Problems

• Trays • Tower Pressure • Distillation Towers • Reboilers • Instruments • Packed Towers • Steam and Condensate Systems • Bubble Point and Dew Point • Steam Strippers • Draw-Off Nozzle Hydraulics • Pumparounds and Tower Heat Flows • Condensers and Tower Pressure Control • Air Coolers • Deaerators and Steam Systems • Vacuum Systems • Steam Turbines • Surface Condensers • Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers • Fire Heaters • Refrigeration Systems • Centrifugal Pumps • Separators • Compressors • Safety • Corrosion • Fluid Flow • Computer Modeling and Control • Field Troubleshooting Process Problems

Table of Contents:
Foreword
Preface to Third Edition
Preface to Second Edition
Preface to First Edition
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Process Equipment Fundamentals
Chapter 2. Basic Terms and Conditions
Chapter 3. How Trays Work: Flooding
Downcomer Backup
Chapter 4. How Trays Work: Dumping
Weeping through Tray Decks
Chapter 5. Why Control Tower Pressure
Options for Optimizing Tower Operating Pressure
Chapter 6. What Drives Distillation Towers
Reboiler Function
Chapter 7. How Reboilers Work
Thermosyphon, Gravity Feed, and Forced
Chapter 8. Inspecting Tower Internals
Chapter 9. How Instruments Work
Levels, Pressures, Flows, and Temperatures
Chapter 10. Packed Towers: Better Than Trays?
Packed-Bed Vapor and Liquid Distribution
Chapter 11. Steam and Condensate Systems
Water Hammer and Condensate Backup Steam-Side Reboiler Control
Chapter 12. Bubble Point and Dew Point
Equilibrium Concepts in Vapor-Liquid Mixtures
Chapter 13. Steam Strippers
Source of Latent Heat of Vaporization
Chapter 14. Draw-Off Nozzle Hydraulics
Nozzle Cavitation Due to Lack of Hydrostatic Head
Chapter 15. Pumparounds and Tower Heat Flows
Closing the Tower Enthalpy Balance
Chapter 16. Condensers and Tower Pressure Control
Hot-Vapor Bypass: Flooded Condenser Control
Chapter 17. Air Coolers
Fin-Fan Coolers
Chapter 18. Deaerators and Steam Systems
Generating Steam in Boilers and BFW Preparation
Chapter 19. Vacuum Systems: Steam Jet Ejectors
Steam Jet Ejectors
Chapter 20. Steam Turbines
The Condensing Steam Turbine
Chapter 21. Surface Condensers
The Condensing Steam Turbine
Chapter 22. Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers
Heat-Transfer Fouling Resistance
Chapter 23. Heat Exchanger Innovations
Chapter 24. Fired Heaters: Fire- and Flue-Gas Side
Draft and Afterburn; Optimizing Excess Air
Chapter 25. Fired Heaters: Process Side
Coking Furnace Tubes and Tube Failures
Chapter 26. Refrigeration Systems
An Introduction to Centrifugal Compressors
Chapter 27. Cooling Water Systems
Chapter 28. Catalytic Effects: Equilibrium and Kinetics
Chapter 29. Centrifugal Pumps: Fundamentals of Operations
Head, Flow, and Pressure
Chapter 30. Centrifugal Pumps: Driver Limits
Electric Motors and Steam Turbines
Chapter 31. Centrifugal Pumps: Suction Pressure Limits
Cavitation and Net Positive Suction Head
Chapter 32. Control Valves
Chapter 33. Separators: Vapor-Hydrocarbon-Water
Liquid Settling Rates
Chapter 34. Gas Compression: The Basic Idea
The Second Law of Thermodynamics Made Easy
Chapter 35. Centrifugal Compressors and Surge
Overamping the Motor Drive
Chapter 36. Reciprocating Compressors
The Carnot Cycle; Use of Indicator Card
Chapter 37. Compressor Efficiency
Effect on Driver Load
Chapter 38. Safety Concerns
Relief Valves, Corrosion, and Safety Trips
Chapter 39. Corrosion--Process Units
Chapter 40. Fluid Flow in Pipes
Basic Ideas to Evaluate Newtonian and Non-Newtonian Flow
Chapter 41. Super-Fractionation Separation Stage
Chapter 42. Computer Modeling and Control
Chapter 43. Field Troubleshooting Process Problems
Glossary
Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780071496742
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
  • Publisher Imprint: McGraw-Hill Professional
  • Depth: 38
  • Height: 241 mm
  • No of Pages: 624
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 941 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0071496742
  • Publisher Date: 16 May 2008
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Edition: 3
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 38 mm
  • Width: 152 mm


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