Chemical process design and integration

"The book provides a practical guide to chemical process design and integration for students and practicing process engineers in industry"--

Includes index.

"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"--Provided by publisher.

Chemical Process: Design and Integration; Contents; Preface to the Second Edition; Acknowledgements; Nomenclature; Greek Letters; Subscripts; Superscripts; Chapter 1: The Nature of Chemical Process Design and Integration; 1.1 Chemical Products; 1.2 Formulation of Design Problems; 1.3 Synthesis and Simulation; 1.4 The Hierarchy of Chemical Process Design and Integration; 1.5 Continuous and Batch Processes; 1.6 New Design and Retrofit; 1.7 Reliability, Availability and Maintainability; 1.8 Process Control; 1.9 Approaches to Chemical Process Design and Integration.

1.10 The Nature of Chemical Process Design and Integration -- SummaryReferences; Chapter 2: Process Economics; 2.1 The Role of Process Economics; 2.2 Capital Cost for New Design; 2.3 Capital Cost for Retrofit; 2.4 Annualized Capital Cost; 2.5 Operating Cost; 2.6 Simple Economic Criteria; 2.7 Project Cash Flow and Economic Evaluation; 2.8 Investment Criteria; 2.9 Process Economics -- Summary; 2.10 Exercises; References; Chapter 3: Optimization; 3.1 Objective Functions; 3.2 Single-Variable Optimization; 3.3 Multivariable Optimization; 3.4 Constrained Optimization; 3.5 Linear Programming.

3.6 Nonlinear Programming3.7 Struct…