Handbook of chemical engineering calculations

This handbook shows how to solve the main process-related problems that crop up often in chemical engineering practice The book, now in its second edition, is an outgrowth of the highly successful Standard Handbook of Engineering Calculations, which contains separate sections devoted to the Various engineering disciplines, including a relatively short section on chemical engineer ing The desirability of publishing a similar handbook that focused exclusively on chemical engineering was obvious Tyler Hicks, editor of the previously mentioned volume, was co-editor of the first edition, which helped to assure continuity in employing the well-ac cepted approach that the Standard Handbook features The approach consists of the use of solved, numerical illustrative examples. Except for introductory paragraphs in a few of the chapters where introduction seemed especially appropriate, this entire volume consists of solved examples. In each chapter, these have been chosen so as to bring out the most important problems that arise in the topic covered by that chapter (excepting those problems that are too complex and unwieldy for this approach). In some work-situations, readers will use the solution techniques directly with a calculator, in other cases, the examples will provide the understanding that is needed for implementing a computer-based solution. All chapters and all examples included in the first edition have been retained. The main change in this second edition is the adding of two major chapters one on absorption and stripping, the other on air pollution control. Also new examples have been added to several of the existing chapters All of the chapter on flow of fluids and solids comes from the Standard Handbook of Engineering Calculations, and that book was the source for part of the material in the stoichiometry chapter as well as most of the final chapter. "Other Chemical Engineering Calculations. Virtually everything else in this volume was prepared specifically for it. Each section was prepared by one or more experts in the given field, and to a large extent the actual choice of examples was made by the expert() in question. Thus, we owe a doubly deep debt of gratitude to our contributors