Coulson and Richardson's Chemical Engineering: Chemical Engineering Design v. 6 (Coulson & Richardson's chemical engineering) [Paperback]

"Reviews of previous edition: ' An essential support text for the traditional design product. ...Well written using a clear type, is easy to read and is superbly indexed' Trans IChemE

Coulson and Richardson's classic series provides the student with an account of the fundamentals of chemical engineering and constitutes the definitive work on the subject for academics and practitioners. This volume covers the application of chemical engineering principles to the design of chemical processes and equipment. After an introductory chapter on the nature and methodology of the design process and its application to the design of chemical manufacturing processes - subsequent chapters cover process design and detail, safety and loss prevention, equipment selection, costings and flow sheets in depth. Later chapters cover the detailed design for equipment for separation processes and heat exchange. The mechanical design of process equipment is also included and a chapter on more general site considerations closes the book.

The latter part of the book deals with separation processes, such as distillation and gas absorption, which illustrate applications of the fundamental principles of mass transfer introduced in Chemical Engineering Volume 1. In conclusion, several techniques of growing importance - absorption, ion exchange and chromatographic and membrane separations - are described. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

By Mr. R K SINNOTT