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Letter to Readers: How to Read This Book | |
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Introduction | |
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How Trays Work: Flooding: Downcomer Backup | |
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How Trays Work: Dumping: Weeping Through Tray Decks | |
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Why Control Tower Pressure: Options for Optimizing Tower Operating Pressure | |
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What Drives Distillation Towers: Reboiler Function | |
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How Reboilers Work: Thermosyphon, Gravity Feed, and Forced | |
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How Instruments Work: Levels, Pressures, Flows, and Temperatures | |
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Packed Towers: Better than Trays? Packed-Bed Vapor and Liquid Distribution | |
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Steam and Condensate Systems: Water Hammer and Condensate Backup Steam-Side Reboiler Control | |
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Bubble Point and Dew Point: Equilibrium Concepts in Vapor-Liquid Mixtures | |
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Steam Strippers: Source of Latent Heat of Vaporization | |
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Draw-off Nozzle Hydraulics: Nozzle Cavitation Due to Lack of Hydrostatic Head | |
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Pumparounds and Tower Heat Flows: Closing the Tower Enthalpy Balance | |
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Condensers and Tower Pressure Control: Hot-Vapor Bypass: Flooded Condenser Control | |
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Air Coolers: Fin-Fan Coolers | |
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Deaerators and Steam Systems: Generating Steam in Boilers and BFW Preparation | |
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Vacuum Systems: Steam Jet Ejectors: Steam Jet Ejectors | |
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Steam Turbines: Use of Horsepower Valves and Correct Speed Control | |
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Surface Condensers: The Condensing Steam Turbine | |
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Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers: Heat-Transfer Fouling Resistance | |
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Fired Heaters: Fire- and Flue-Gas-Side: Draft and Afterburn; Optimizing Excess Air | |
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Fired Heaters: Process Side: Coking Furnace Tubes and Tube Failures | |
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Refrigeration Systems: An Introduction to Centrifugal Compressors | |
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Centrifugal Pumps: Fundamentals of Operation: Head, Flow, and Pressure | |
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Centrifugal Pumps: Driver Limits: Motors, Steam Turbines, and Gears | |
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Centrifugal Pumps: Suction Pressure Limits: Cavitation and Net Positive Suction Head | |
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Separators: Vapor-Hydrocarbon-Water: Liquid Settling Rates | |
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Gas Compression: The Basic Idea: The Second Law of Thermodynamics Made Easy | |
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Centrifugal Compressors and Surge: Overamping the Motor Driver | |
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Reciprocating Compressors: Positive Displacement and Carnot Cycle; Use of Indicator Card | |
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Compressor Efficiency | |
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Safety Equipment: Relief Valves, Corrosion, and Trips | |
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Glossary | |
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The Norm Lieberman Video Library of Troubleshooting Process Operations | |
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Index | |