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Published data and shortcut estimating methods can be used to calculate the approximate manufacturing cost of a new product. However, most companies have extensive data on various items of cost such as overheads, property taxes, etc. These data should be used whenever possible to give the estimate that is most vahd for a particular company. 

For the McCabe-Thiele type of graphical calculations and shortcut methods, the Bancroft (weight-ratio) concentrations can be used on... 

Like Bruce, I am here to share the perspective of the field. Shortcut equipment design methods play a major role in process equipment installations. Virtually all process designs employ these methods and shortcut techniques are developed from many sources. 

Have you ever tried to decide which was the best article you ever read For me, the answer comes quickly. It is How to Operate an Amine Plant. by Don Ballard. This article has helped me more than any other. I have gone back to the article time after time to troubleshoot and optimize amine plants. In addition, the article has design tips and shortcut rules of thumb developed by field experience. 

This pocket guide contains selected rules of thumb and shortcut design methods meant to travel into the field as well as the office, even when the office is a hotel room. It contains updates on certain fast-moving technology and new material not found elsewhere. Miniaturization and easy retrieval of information are stressed. Those on the go can produce reasonable results quickly when using this book as a basic source. 

If you answered 4-7 questions correctly, you need to refresh yourself on these topics. Carefully read through the lesson in this chapter for review and skill building. Pay attention to the sidebars that refer you to more in-depth practice, hints, and shortcuts. Work through the quiz at the end of the chapter to check your progress. 

If you answered 4-7 questions correctly, you need a more focused and careful review. If the questions you answered wrong deal with topics covered earlier in this book, you may need to go back and review these topics again. Read through the lesson presented in this chapter and work through all examples. Pay attention to the various tips, rules, and shortcuts. 

If you answered 1-3 questions correctly, you need to make a concentrated effort to practice word problems. Perhaps you become intimidated as soon as you encounter words in a math problem. Read this chapter carefully. There are many suggestions and approaches described to make solving word problems simpler. Practice is the key to success. Pay attention to all tips, rules, and shortcuts and visit the suggested websites for further practice. You may want to refer to Practical Math Success in 2 0 Minutes a Day, published by LearningExpress, which has two Lessons, 15 and 16, devoted to word problems. 

There are many tricks and shortcuts to this process. For example, rather than compiling all of the transformation rate equations (or conducting the actual kinetic experiments yourself), there are many sources of typical chemical half-lives based on pseudo-first-order rate expressions. It is usually prudent to begin with these best estimates of half-lives in air, water, soil, and sediment and perform a sensitivity analysis with the model to determine which processes are most important. One can return to the most important processes to assess whether more detailed rate expressions are necessary. An illustration of this mass balance approach is given in Figure 27.5 for benzol a Ipyrene. This approach allows a first-order evaluation of how chemicals enter the environment, what happens to them in the environment, and what the exposure concentrations will be in various environmental media. Thus the chemical mass balance provides information relevant to toxicant exposure to both humans and wildlife. 

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Minimum reflux can be determined by graphical (Secs. 2.3.5, 2.4.1), shortcut (Secs. 3.2.2 to 3.2.4), or rigorous techniques. Most graphical and shortcut methods give good results either when constant molar overflow (Sec. 2.2.2) applies, or when the method is corrected for energy balance. Unfortunately, shortcut methods in most commercial simulations apply no energy balance correction, and wBd minimum reflux predictions are not uncommon. 

Engineers will find detailed information on key fractionation concepts. .. column process design and shortcut calculations. .. tray design and operation. .. tray efficiency. .. packing design and operation. .. packing efficiency and scaleup. .. packing capacity and pressure drop. .. and much more. 

Tips draw your attention to valuable concepts, advice, and shortcuts for tackling the test. By reading the tips, you will learn how to approach different question types, pace yourself, and remember what was discussed previously in the book. 

Although nomographs, simplified equations, and shortcut methods are included, every effort has been made to indicate the theoretical background and assumptions for these relationships. The true value of plant design and economics for the chemical engineer is not found merely in "the ability to put... 

In the present case, hand calculation and shortcut procedures are adequate because the benzene-toluene-xylene system is close to ideal. 

After taking the pretest, move on to Lesson 1. Each lesson offers detailed explanations of a new concept. There are numerous examples with step-by-step solutions. As you proceed through a lesson, you will find tips and shortcuts that will help you learn a concept. Each new concept is followed by a practice set of problems. The answers to the practice problems are in an answer key located at the end of the book. 

In both cases, Pauling needed to find approximations and shortcuts to help with the difficult mathematics. And here he discovered a talent that would be a key to his success as a scientist He was very good at simplifying things. 

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