Ludwig's Applied Process Design for Chemical and Petrochemical Plants

by A. Kayode Coker PhD

Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
ISBN: 075067766X

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Book Description

This complete revision of Applied Process Design for Chemical and Petrochemical Plants, Volume 1 builds upon Ernest E. Ludwig's classic text to further enhance its use as a chemical engineering process design manual of methods and proven fundamentals. This new edition includes important supplemental mechanical and related data, nomographs and charts. Also included within are improved techniques and fundamental methodologies, to guide the engineer in designing process equipment and applying chemical processes to properly detailed equipment.

All three volumes of Applied Process Design for Chemical and Petrochemical Plants serve the practicing engineer by providing organized design procedures, details on the equipment suitable for application selection, and charts in readily usable form. Process engineers, designers, and operators will find more chemical petrochemical plant design data in:

• Volume 2, Third Edition, which covers distillation and packed towers as well as material on azeotropes and ideal/non-ideal systems.
• Volume 3, Third Edition, which covers heat transfer, refrigeration systems, compression surge drums, and mechanical drivers.

A. Kayode Coker, is Chairman of Chemical & Process Engineering Technology department at Jubail Industrial College in Saudi Arabia. He's both a chartered scientist and a chartered chemical engineer for more than 15 years. and an author of Fortran Programs for Chemical Process Design, Analysis and Simulation, Gulf Publishing Co., and Modeling of Chemical Kinetics and Reactor Design, Butterworth-Heinemann.

• Provides improved design manuals for methods and proven fundamentals of process design with related data and charts
• Covers a complete range of basic day-to-day petrochemical operation topics with new material on significant industry changes since 1995.
• Website includes computer applications along with Excel spreadsheets and concise applied process design flow charts.

Customer Reviews

There has been a lot of material added since the previous version, true. I found that the codes that were promised in the front of the book were not there, so I contacted the publisher. The publisher got with the author and I did get some codes, but they were really not of much practical use. The biggest problem is that the text is full of errors. There are too many, so that if you have trouble understanding something in the text, you lose confidence in the text, beginning to realize that the reason is some error in the math or, quite commonly, what is being said. So sometimes having this text is worse than having no information because you just wasted a lot of time. The previous edition was pretty good from what experience I had with it.

I recommend the book for the practicing process engineer. I contains a wealth of information on equipment design methods along with many worked examples and supplemental materials for specific design and analysis tasks.