Process Equipment Selection

Walas, S. M., Chemical Process Equipment Selection and Design, Butterworth, Reading, Mass., 1988. 

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Many successful types of reactors are illustrated throughout this section. Additional sketches may be found in other books on this topic, particularly in Walas Chemical Process Equipment Selection and Design, Butterworths, 1990) and Ullmann Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology (in German), vol. 3, Verlag Chemie, 1973, pp. 321-518). 

Wallas, 1988. Chemical Process Equipment Selection, Butterworths, p. 329. 

Koiranen, T. Hurme, M. 1997. Case-Based Reasoning Application in Process Equipment Selection and Design. Sixth Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, G. Grahne (Ed.), Amsterdam IOS Press. Pp. 273-274. 

CTables 2. 1-2. 6 are from WALAS, Ch.em.ical Process Equipment Selection and Design, Butterworth-Heinemann, 19901. 

Dr. Walas has several decades of varied experience in industry and academia and is an active industrial consultant for the process design of chemical reactors and chemical and petroleum plants. He has written four related books on reaction kinetics, phase equilibria, process equipment selection and design, and mathematical modeling of chemical engineering processes, as well as the sections Reaction Kinetics and Chemical Reactors in the seventh edition of Chemical Engineers Handbook. He is a Fellow of the AlChE and a registered professional engineer. 

Process equipment selection, design, and surface that contain product contact surfaces or potentially contaminating surfaces should be specihed such that cross-contamination is minimized and clean ability is maximized. Design review should be conducted before the actual fabrication begins. 

This paper describes the selected processing scheme ond the optimisation procedure used to determine the gos processing temperature and looks ot the alternatives that were considered for process equipment selection. 

Figure S.4. Residence time distributions of pilot and commercial catalyst packed reactors CWalas, Chemical Process EQuipment Selection and Design, 19903.

Figure 7-9. Agitator flow patterns, (a) Axial or radial impellers without baffles produce vortex, (b) Off-center location reduces the vortex, (c) Axial impeller with baffles, (d) Radial impeller with baffles. (Source Walas, S. M., Chemical Process Equipment—Selection and Design, Butterworths Series in Chemical Engineering, 1988.)...

Figure 8. Designs of ammonia synthesis converters (a) Principle of the autothermal ammonia synthesis reactor (b) Radial flow converter with capacities of 1,800 tpd (c) Horizontal three-bed converter and detail of the catalyst cartridge. (Source Walas, M. S., Chemical Process Equipment, Selection and Design, Butterworth Series in Chemical Engineering, 1988.)...

Chemical Process Equipment Selection and Design Stanley M. Walas... 

Chemical process equipment selection and design / James R. Couper. .. 

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