An Applied Guide to Process and Plant Design

Preface

I am a highly experienced practical professional process engineer who has designed, commissioned, and undertaken troubleshooting of many process plants, and mentored and trained many other professional engineers in how to do these things. I am also a university professor who has taught process plant design to undergraduates and postgraduates for a number of years. This has required me to reflect upon what I know about the subject, how I know it, and how I can teach it to someone else. In this book I will assume the role of the experienced engineer, who takes lucky graduate chemical engineers by the hand in their first job or two and shows them what engineering is really about. Many are not so lucky as to have expert guidance. In doing ...