Plant Design and Economics for Chemical Engineers

by Max Peters, Klaus Timmerhaus, Ronald West, Max Peters

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
ISBN: 0072392665

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Book Description

The fifth edition of Plant Design and Economics for Chemical Engineers is a major revision of the popular fourth edition. There are new chapters on process synthesis, computer-aided design, and design of chemical reactors. A traditionally strong feature of the text, economic analysis, has been revamped and updated. Another strength, equipment sizing and cost estimation, is updated and expanded as well. These improvements also reflect changes in equipment availability.

The numerous real examples throughout the book include computer or hand solutions, and often both. There is a new increased emphasis on computer use in design, economic evaluation, and optimization. Concepts, strategies, and approaches to computer use are featured. These concepts are not tied to particular software programs and therefore apply to wide a range of applications software, of both current and future release.

This widely used text is now more useful than ever, providing a “one-stop” guide to chemical process design and evaluation.

About the Author

University of Colorado Boulder - Professor Emeritus updated all 5/02 updated all 5/02 University of Colorado---Boulder - Emeritus Professor

Customer Reviews

For an undergraduate chemical engineering student, this book has many useful charts of utility costs, safety indices, etc. About those charts, I can only say good things, because it feels a lot better citing a textbook than citing web pages all the time. The other information in the book is useful, but not presented in a useful way. I cannot read this book word by word. It's too dry. What I would rather read is a bulleted list in each chapter with definitions and examples of things like HAZOP and fault tree analysis. Because really, when I finish my design class and I need to look up information on some design principal, I'm going to want an easy to read bulleted list, not a paragraph. I think this book could have about one third the pages that way, which would make it more readable and useful.

I bought this book for my capstone senior design project. Contains some surprisingly useful information. I used it mainly for the economic analysis of my project. Having never done anything related to economics before, it was a very useful tool and helped me produce a high quality senior design project.