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| Preface | |
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| Prologue | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Chemical Engineering Plant Design | |
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| General Overall Design Considerations | |
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| Practical Considerations in Design | |
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| Engineering Ethics in Design | |
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| General Design Considerations | |
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| Health and Safety Hazards | |
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| Loss Prevention | |
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| Environmental Protection | |
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| Plant Location | |
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| Plant Layout | |
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| Plant Operation and Control | |
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| Patent Considerations | |
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| Process Design Development | |
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| Development of Design Database | |
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| Process Creation | |
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| Process Design | |
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| Process Flow Diagrams | |
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| Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams | |
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| Vessel and Piping Layout Isometrics | |
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| Equipment Design and Specifications | |
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| The Preliminary Design - A Specific Example | |
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| Flowsheet Synthesis and Development | |
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| Flowsheet Synthesis and Development | |
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| Process Information | |
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| Input/Output Structure | |
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| Functions Diagram | |
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| Operations Diagram | |
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| Process Flowsheet | |
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| Algorithmic Flowsheet Generation | |
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| Comparison of Hierarchical and Algorithmic Results | |
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| Genetic Algorithms | |
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| Future Approaches to Flowsheet Synthesis and Development | |
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| Software Use in Flowsheet Synthesis | |
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| Analysis and Evaluation of Flowsheets | |
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| Software Use in Process Design | |
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| Software Structure | |
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| Software Capabilities | |
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| Software for Process Design | |
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| Software Selection | |
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| Software Use | |
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| Avoiding Pitfalls in Software Use | |
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| Evaluation of Software Results | |
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| Analysis of Cost Estimation | |
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| Cash Flow for Industrial Operations | |
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| Factors Affecting Investment and Production Costs | |
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| Capital Investment | |
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| Estimation of Capital Investment | |
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| Cost Indexes | |
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| Cost Components in Capital Investment | |
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| Methods for Estimating Capital Investment | |
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| Estimation of Revenue | |
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| Estimation of Total Product Cost | |
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| Gross Profit, Net Profit, and Cash Flow | |
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| Contingencies | |
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| Interest, Time Value of Money, Taxes, and Fixed Charges | |
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| Interest | |
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| Cost of Capital | |
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| Time Value of Money | |
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| Cash Flow Patterns | |
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| Compounding and Discounting Factors | |
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| Income Taxes | |
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| Fixed Charges | |
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| Profitability, Alternative Investments, and Replacements | |
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| Profitability Standards | |
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| Methods for Calculating Profitability | |
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| Alternative Investments | |
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| Replacements | |
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| Practical Factors in Alternative-Investment and Replacement Analysis | |
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| Optimum Design and Design Strategy | |
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| Defining the Optimization Problem | |
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| Selecting an Objective Function | |
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| Suboptimization | |
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| Programming Optimizing Problems | |
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| Optimization Solution Methodologies | |
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| Optimization Applications | |
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| Materials and Fabrication Selection | |
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| Factors Contributing to Corrosion | |
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| Combating Corrosion | |
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| Properties of Materials | |
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| Tabulated Data for Selecting Materials of Construction | |
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| Selection of Materials | |
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| Fabrication of Equipment | |
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| Written and Oral Design Reports | |
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| Written Reports | |
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| Oral Reports | |
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| Materials-Handling Equipment - Design and Costs | |
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| Basic Concepts of Fluid Transport | |
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| Piping in Fluid Transport Processes | |
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| Pumping of Fluids | |
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| Compression and Expansion of Fluids | |
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| Agitation and Mixing of Fluids | |
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| Flow Measurement of Fluids | |
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| Storage and Containment of Fluids | |
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| Transport of Solids | |
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| Handling of Solids | |
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| Reactor Equipment - Design and Costs | |
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| Reactor Principles | |
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| Development of Chemical Reaction Rate Expressions | |
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| Reaction and Reactor Performance | |
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| Reactor and Catalyst Equipment | |
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| Heat-Transfer Equipment - Design and Costs | |
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| Basic Theory of Heat Transfer in Exchangers | |
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| Determination of Heat-Transfer Coefficients | |
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| Determination of Pressure Drop in Heat Exchangers | |
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| Selection of Heat Exchanger Type | |
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| Design of Key Heat Exchanger Types | |
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| Optimum Design of Heat Exchangers | |
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| General Methods for Design of Heat Exchangers | |
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| Separation Equipment - Design and Costs | |
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| Selection of Suitable Separation Processes | |
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| Equipment Design and Costs for Separating Homogeneous Mixtures | |
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| Separation by Distillation | |
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| Separation by Absorption and Stripping | |
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| Separation by Extraction | |
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| Separation Using Membranes | |
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| Separation by Adsorption | |
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| Equipment Design and Costs for Separating Heterogeneous Mixtures | |
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| Separation by Drying | |
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| Separation by Filtration | |
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| The International System (SI) of Units | |
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| Auxiliary, Utility, and Instrumentation Cost Data | |
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| Design Problems | |
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| Tables of Physical Properties and Constants | |
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| Heuristics for Process Equipment Design | |
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| Software Useful for Design | |
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| Author Index | |
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| Subject Index | |