Process Plant Design - Robin Smith

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Résumé :
Thorough treatment of process plant layout providing a systematic approach to the synthesis of control systems for overall processes Process Plant Design is a practical guide to chemical engineering process plant design, particularly in relation to design projects, giving an up-to-date approach to the structure of process design projects as practiced industrially and exploring the wider issues of process design in terms of the services (utilities) required to make a practical process design function. The text allows chemical engineering students to gain an understanding of reliability, maintainability, and availability in relation to the subject, enabling them to specify with confidence the use of standby equipment, redundancy, reliability required of safety equipment, required availability to meet production targets, and the use of storage to achieve the required process availability. To aid in reader comprehension, Process Plant Design features worked examples within the text and exercises at the end of some chapters with solutions available via supporting website. Written by a renowned author with a proven track record in textbooks for chemical engineering students, Process Plant Design contains information on: * Chemical process projects, development of process design concepts, heating and cooling utilities, and waste treatment systems * Piping and instrumentation diagram (P&ID) development, I.E. The most important document in the industrial practice of chemical engineering that must be developed for all design projects * Flow rate and inventory control, degrees of freedom, control of process operations, and overall process control * Piping and pressure relief, process operations, construction, mechanical design, site layout, and process layout Process Plant Design is a highly valuable resource on the subject for final year undergraduate students, as well as practicing chemical engineers working in engineering, procurement, and construction. The text is also useful for industrial disciplines related to chemical engineering working in engineering, procurement, and construction of chemical processes.

Biographie:

Professor Robin Smith is Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Manchester. Before joining the University of Manchester he gained extensive industrial experience with different companies in process investigation, production, process design, process modelling and process integration. He has co-founded three spin-out companies from the University of Manchester and has acted extensively as a consultant to industry. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers in the UK and a Chartered Engineer. He has published widely in the field of process integration and is author of Chemical Process Design and Integration, published by Wiley. He was awarded the Hanson Medal of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, UK for his work on waste minimization, and the Sargent Medal for his work on process integration.