Ludwig's Applied Process Design for Chemical and Petrochemical Plants: Volume 2: Distillation, packed towers, petroleum fractionation, gas processing and dehydration, Volume 2

A. Kayode Coker, PhD

Gulf Professional Publishing, Jul 19, 2010 - Science - 1008 pages

The Fourth Edition of Applied Process Design for Chemical and Petrochemical Plants Volume 2 builds upon the late Ernest E. Ludwig’s classic chemical engineering process design manual. Volume Two focuses on distillation and packed towers, and presents the methods and fundamentals of plant design along with supplemental mechanical and related data, nomographs, data charts and heuristics. The Fourth Edition is significantly expanded and updated, with new topics that ensure readers can analyze problems and find practical design methods and solutions to accomplish their process design objectives.

• A true application-driven book, providing clarity and easy access to essential process plant data and design information
• Covers a complete range of basic day-to-day petrochemical operation topics
• Extensively revised with new material on distillation process performance; complex-mixture fractionating, gas processing, dehydration, hydrocarbon absorption and stripping; enhanced distillation types

Contents

• Chapter 10 Distillation: 1
• Chapter 11 Petroleum ComplexMixture Fractionation Gas Processing Dehydration Hydrocarbon Absorption and Stripping: 269
• Chapter 12 Enhanced distillation types: 345
• Mechanical Designs fornbspTray Performance: 373
• Chapter 14 Packed Towers: 483
• References for Chapters 10 1112 and 13: 679
• References for Chapter 14: 687
• Bibliography: 691
• Appendix A A List of Engineering Process Flow Diagrams and Process Data Sheets: 697
• Appendix B Ethics in the Engineering Profession: 745
• Appendix C Physical Properties of Liquids and Gases: 757
• Appendix D Alphabetical Conversion Factors: 793
• Appendix E Equations and Analysis: 871
• Appendix F Solving Equations Using Excel: 885
• Appendix G Analytical Techniques: 895
• Appendix H Numerical Techniques: 901
• Appendix I Screenshot Guide to Absoft Compiler Graphical User Interface: 917
• Appendix J Equilibrium KValues: 925
• Appendix K Simulations: 939
• Index: 953

About the author

A. Kayode Coker, Ph.D., is an engineering Coordinator at Saudi Aramco Shell Refinery Company, in Jubail, Saudi Arabia and is a consultant for AKC Technology in the UK. Prior to this he was Chairman of the Chemical and Process Engineering Department at Jubail Industrial College. He has also been a chartered scientist and a chartered chemical engineer for over 30 years. Coker is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers. UK, (C.Eng, CSci, FIChemE) and a senior member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). He holds a B.Sc. honors degree in Chemical Engineering, a Master of Science degree in Process Analysis and Development, and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, all from Aston University, Birmingham, UK. He also has a Teachers’ Certificate in Education from the University of London, UK. He has directed and conducted short courses in both the UK and for SABIC industries in Saudi Arabia. His articles have been published in several international journals, he is an author of four books in chemical engineering and a contributor to the Encyclopaedia of Chemical Processing and Design, Vol. 61. Coker was named as one of the International Biographical Centre's Leading Engineers of the World 2008.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Ludwig's Applied Process Design for Chemical and Petrochemical Plants: Volume 2: Distillation, packed towers, petroleum fractionation, gas processing and dehydration, Volume 2; Online access with subscription: Proquest Ebook Central
• Author: A. Kayode Coker, PhD
• Edition: 4
• Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing, 2010
• ISBN: 0080942091, 9780080942094
• Length: 1008 pages
• Subjects: Science / Chemistry / General; Science / Chemistry / Industrial & Technical; Technology & Engineering / Chemical & Biochemical