Process plant design / Robin Smith.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This book is intended to provide a practical guide to chemical engineering process plant design for students of chemical engineering, particularly in relation to design projects. It will also be of practical value to practising chemical engineers. It picks up the design process after the texts on conceptual process design and covers an area which is critically important to chemical engineers. The text starts by giving an up-to-date approach to the structure of process design projects as practised industrially. After a summary of the conceptual development process designs, the text explores the wider issues of process design in terms of the services (utilities) required to make a practical process design function. A key learning requirement for all chemical engineering students is gaining an understanding of reliability, maintainability and availability. Without knowledge of this area, chemical engineers cannot specify with confidence the use of standby equipment, redundancy, the reliability required of safety equipment, the required availability to meet production targets and the use of storage to achieve the required process availability. A number of chapters have been included to give an introduction to reliability theory to achieve these goals"-- Provided by publisher.

About the Author
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.