Chemical process design and integration

"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."--

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

Machine generated contents note: 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 -- Summary -- References -- 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 -- 3. Optimization -- 3.1. Objective Functions -- 3.2. Single-Variable Optimization.

Note continued: 3.3. Multivariable Optimization -- 3.4. Constrained Optimization -- 3.5. Linear Programming -- 3.6. Nonlinear Programming -- 3.7. Structural Optimization -- 3.8. Solution of Equati…