Chapter 4: Chemical Product Design
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
The difference between process design and product design
The strategy for chemical product design
The subject of most of this book is chemical process design, which is taught in the traditional capstone experience in chemical engineering curricula. For most of the history of chemical engineering, graduates have gone to work in chemical plants that manufacture commodity chemicals. Commodity chemicals are those manufactured by many companies in large quantities, usually in continuous processes like those illustrated in this textbook. There is little or no difference in commodity chemicals produced by different companies, that is, the product specifications are very similar for the same ...
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