Process engineer’s viewpoint

The Best Seven Books in Chemical Process Safety—from a Process Engineer s Viewpoint... 

Excellent books addressing chemical process safety - fi om a process engineer s viewpoint. 

Chapters 3 to 6 describe the development and evaluation of production processes and the execution of projects from the chemist s viewpoint. The various aspects chemical, engineering, materials science, legal, economic, safety, etc. that must be taken into account prior to and during the planning, erection, and startup of a chemical plant are treated. 

A thorough presentation of fundamentals of an economic analysis for process design can be found in the classical book of Peters and Timmerhaus (1991). In addition this book contains detailed information about the cost of chemical equipment. A concise but useful treatment can be found in Coulson Richardson volume 6 (1993). The part on economics in Douglas (1987) is particularly well written from the viewpoint of a designer. The chapter written by Holland Wilkinson for Perry s Handbook 7 edition (1997) contains an extended description of the modem concepts of profitability, a comprehensive estimation of manufacturing and fixed-capital costs, as well as an introduction in the accounting and cost control concepts. The economic evaluation of projects from the perspective of the Institution of Chemical Engineers-UK may be found in Allen (1991). 

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