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A Working Guide to Process Equipment, 4th Edition
$106.95
The latest methods for troubleshooting and maintaining process equipment.
Applicable to a broad range of technicians and industries and fully updated throughout, A Working Guide to Process Equipment, Fourth Edition explains how to diagnose, troubleshoot, and correct problems with chemical and petroleum refining process equipment.
This edition contains five new chapters covering state-of-the-art design and function of process equipment. All chapters in the book are updated with the latest troubleshooting and problem-solving techniques.
This practical resource effectively illustrates how theory applies to understanding the root causes of real-world plant operating problems.
Revisions include:
- Effect of perforated tray panel distortion on tray flooding and fractionation efficiency
- How multi-component fractionation differs from binary fractionation
- Effect on vapor-liquid tray loads
- Effect on the reflux drum temperature and pressure
- Simple calculation methods and the significance of constant condenser duty
- Current operating experience with shell and tube exchangers using hellical baffles
- Problems with twisted tube exchangers
- Where to use spiral heat exchangers
- Sintered metal tubing for reboilers in pure component, clean hydrocarbon service
- Current design and operating practices for waste water strippers
- NH3, H2S, sour water, and Amine systems
- Recent design and operating problems with steam condensate collection systems
- Introduction of the concept of the “Point of Optimum Drainabilty”
- Modern mechanical seal designs for centrifugal pumps
- Expanded chapters on vacuum system operation, ejector design (both steam and liquids), and surface condenser
- Section on the importance and design of barometric seal leg including vacuum seal drum design
- Advantages of indirect combustion air pre-heaters
- Methods to reduce CO2 emissions as a result improper operations and poorly conceived projects
Item #: 71828062