Chemical Engineering Design

Gavin Towler Ph.D. is the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of UOP LLC, a Honeywell company. UOP is a leading supplier of catalysts, process technology, proprietary equipment and services to the oil, gas and petrochemical industries. In this capacity he is responsible for delivering process, catalyst and equipment innovations for UOP’s four businesses.Gavin has 20 years of broad experience of process and product design and has 65 US patents. He is co-author of “Chemical Engineering Design”, a textbook on process design, and is an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University, where he teaches the senior design classes. Gavin has a B.A. and M.Eng. in chemical engineering from Cambridge University and a Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley. He is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institute of Chemical Engineers, and is a Fellow of the AIChE. Ray Sinnott's varied career, mainly in design and development, began with several major companies including Dupont and John Brown. The main areas covered within these appointments were: Gas Production and Distribution, Nuclear Energy, Elastomers and Textile fibres. After his career in industry he joined the Chemical Engineering Department, University of Wales Swansea in 1970, specialising in teaching process and plant design, and other engineering practice subjects. The first edition of Chemical Engineering Design (Coulson and Richardson’s Vol 6) was published in 1983. Subsequent editions have been published at approximately 5 year intervals.Ray Sinnott retired from full time teaching in 1995 but has maintained close contact with the engineering profession.

• Part I: Process Design1. Introduction to Design2. Process Flowsheet Development3. Utilities and Energy Efficient Design4. Process Simulation5. Instrumentation and Process Control6. Materials of Construction7. Capital Cost Estimating8. Estimating Revenues and Production Costs9. Economic Evaluation of Projects10. Safety and Loss Prevention11. General Site Considerations12. Optimization in DesignPart II: Plant Design13. Equipment Selection, Specification and Design14. Design of Pressure Vessels15. Design of Reactors and Mixers16. Separation of Fluids17. Separation Columns (Distillation, Absorption and Extraction)18. Specification and Design of Solids-Handling Equipment19. Heat Transfer Equipment20. Transport and Storage of Fluids