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Contents

PREFACE TO FOURTH EDITION xvii

PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION xx
PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION xxi

PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION xxiii
SERIES EDITOR’S PREFACE xxiv
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT xxv
1 Introduction to Design 1
1.1 Introduction 1
1.2 Nature of design 1
1.2.1 The design objective (the need) 3
1.2.2 Data collection 3
1.2.3 Generation of possible design solutions 3
1.2.4 Selection 4
1.3 The anatomy of a chemical manufacturing process 5
1.3.1 Continuous and batch processes 7
1.4 The organisation of a chemical engineering project 7
1.5 Project documentation 10
1.6 Codes and standards 12
1.7 Factors of safety (design factors) 13
1.8 Systems of units 14
1.9 Degrees of freedom and design variables. The mathematical representation
of the design problem 15
1.9.1 Information flow and design variables 15
1.9.2 Selection of design variables 19
1.9.3 Information flow and the structure of design problems 20
1.10 Optimisation 24
1.10.1 General procedure 25
1.10.2 Simple models 25
1.10.3 Multiple variable problems 27
1.10.4 Linear programming 29
1.10.5 Dynamic programming 29
1.10.6 Optimisation of batch and semicontinuous processes 29
1.11 References 30
1.12 Nomenclature 31
1.13 Problems 32

2 Fundamentals of Material Balances 34
2.1 Introduction 34
2.2 The equivalence of mass and energy 34
2.3 Conservation of mass 34
2.4 Units used to express compositions 35
2.5 Stoichiometry 36
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