Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff, Ph.D.- Handbook of Chemical Processing Equipment

The Handbook of Chemical Processing Equipment has been written as a basic
reference for process engineers. It provides practical information on the working
principles and engineering basis for major equipment commonly used throughout
the chemical processing and allied industries. Although written largely with the
chemical engineer in mind, the book's contents are general enough, with sufficient
background and principles described, that other manufacturing and process
engineers will find it useful.
The handbook is organized into eight chapters. Chapters 1 through 3 deal with heat
transfer equipment used in a variety of industry applications ranging from process
heat exchange, to evaporative cooling, to drying and solvent recovery applications,
humidity control, crystallization, and others. Chapters 4 and 5 cover stagewise
mass transfer equipment. Specifically, Chapter 4 covers distillation, and Chapter 5
covers classical mass transfer equipment involving absorption, adsorption,
extraction, and membrane technologies. Chapter 6 discusses equipment used in
mass separation based upon physical or mechanical means. This includes such
equipment topics as sedimentation, centrifugal separation, filtrations methods.
Chapter 7 covers mixing equipment and various continuous contacting devices
such as gas-solids fluidized beds. Finally, Chapter 8 provides the reader with a
compendium of short calculation methods for commonly encountered process
operations. The calculation methods are readily set up on a personal computer's
standard software spreadsheet.