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Chemical engineering equipment types, descriptions, design, selectionThis color indicates a link available via Clarkson University (off-campus access)

See alsoSafety considerations in design,separation techniquesandHYSYS.General sources of information

HEURISTICS (Also called Rules of Thumb and Experience-Based Rules)

From Walas(Rules of Thumb in the Front Matter ofWalas);(Same via AIChE studentmember site)

Rules of Thumb for Chemical Engineers, 2nd

edition, Carl Branan (1998) GulfPublishing Company: 660 R935 Clarkson Library.

ChEResourcesUpdated online.

Applied Process Design for Chemical and Petrochemical Plants (Ch 0)

HVAC

Appendix E in Plant Design and Economics for Chemical Engineers, 5 thedition, byM.S. Peters, K.D. Timmerhaus and R.E. West (McGraw-Hill, NY, 2003).

Appendix C in Chemical Engineering Process Design and Economics: A PracticalGuide, 2ndedition, by G.D. Ulrich and P.T. Vasudevan (Process Publishing, Durham,N.H., 2004)

Chemical Process Equipment - Selection and Design(The best book for initial equipmentselection, sizing and costing. By Walas. Has commercial reactor data, overall heat transfer

coefficients)

Handbook of Chemical Processing Equipment (edited by Clarkson alum) Thomas Net Useful for locating suppliers of materials and equipment. Can often obtain

information describing equipment. Unless you are a potential customer, however, you areunlikely to obtain prices. Also Thomas Register in the library: Ref 658.9058 T454

Access Engineering(McGraw-Hill books, available free forAIChEmembers through theirsite)

Perry's Chemical Engineers Handbook, 8th edition

Marks Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, 11th Edition

Chemical Process and Design Handbook

Handbook of Chemical Engineering Calculations, 3rd Edition

Handbook of Environmental Engineering Calculations, 2nd Edition

Handbook of Petroleum Refining Processes, Third Edition

Heat Transfer in Process Engineering

Pump Handbook, 4th Edition

Working Guide to Process Equipment, 3rd Edition

Chemical Reactor Design, Optimization and ScaleupMaterials SelectionHYSYS and UniSim: Note that the equipment palette in shows only some of the equipment that itcan model. Click on Flowsheet, Add Operation (or press F12) to see a complete list, part of whichis shown atHYSYS/UniSim.ReactorsDistillation, absorption, stripping columnsHeat ExchangersPressure changes, pumps, compressors and piping systems

Vessels

Sizing of flash drums, surge tanks and accumulatorsLiquid-liquid extraction

Use LLE heuristics to size equipment. See alsoPerry'schapter 15, particularly equations 15-65and 15-66. The delta P for a LLE column is approximately the weight of the two phases in thecolumn per cross-sectional area. Note that the pressure drop is not nearly as important for LLEas for distillation because liquid-liquid equilibria are not sensitive to pressure.

Instrumentation and control Instrumentation Process Control

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Control valve selection Process/Industrial Instruments and Controls Handbook (5th Edition) Design of Distillation Column Control Systems

Bioprocessing Green factories Biomanufacturing of pharmaceuticals; fermentation & filtration. Scaleup Example designs Encyclopedia of Bioprocess Technology - Fermentation, Biocatalysis, and Bioseparation

Fermentation and Biochemical Engineering Handbook - Principles, Process Design, andEquipment Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Encyclopedia Biotechnological Innovations in Chemical Synthesis Separation and Purification Techniques in Biotechnology Separation Processes in the Food and Biotechnology Industries Separation and Purification Techniques in Biotechnology Separation Processes in Biotechnology: 660.6 S479 Bioseparations: Downstream Processing for Biotechnology: 660.63 B453b Bioseparations Engineering: Principles, Practice, and Economics, M.R. Ladisch, Wiley, NY

(2001) ISBN 0471244767. Methods of protein separation: 574.19245 M592

Microfiltration and ultrafiltration : principles and applications: 660.284245 Z53m

Membrane separations in biotechnology: 660.284245 M533

Biotechnology Progress Biotechnology and Bioengineering Journal of Biotechnology Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology Trends in Biotechnology Protein Expression and Purification "Purifying Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibodies,"(Must have first logged in

tohttp://www.aiche.org/CEP/)Chemical Engineering Progress, S14 (May 2008) Bioreactor selection Optimize Power Consumption in Aerobic Fermenters, (Must have first logged in

tohttp://www.aiche.org/CEP/)G.T. Benz, Chemical Engineering Progress(May 2003) 32-35.Miscellaneous

Free design manuals for mist eliminators, coalescers, column packing and trays; fromACSIndustries.

Liquid Filtration (2nd Edition) (edited by Clarkson alum)

Clarkson's Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

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