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Process Engineering for a Small Planet: How to Reuse, Re-Purpose, and Retrofit Existing Process Equipment
Methods for more planet-friendly process engineering Our earth is just one big, complex Process Facility with limited air, water, and mineral resources. It responds to a number of process variables--among them, humanity and the environmental effects of our carbon consumption. What can professionals in the Hydrocarbon Process Industry do to retard environmental degradation? Rather than looking to exotic technology for solutions, Process Engineering for a Small Planet details ready-at-hand methods that the process engineer can employ to help combat the environmental crisis.
Drawing from the author's professional experience working with petroleum refineries petroleum refineries, petrochemical plants, and natural gas wells, this handbook explains how to operate and retrofit process facilities to: Reuse existing process equipmentSave energyReduce greenhouse gas emissionsExpand plant capacity without installing new equipmentReduce corrosion and equipment failures
Covering topics from expanding fractionator and compressor capacity and vacuum tower heater expansion to minimizing process water consumption and increasing centrifugal pump capacity, "Process Engineering for a Small Planet" offers big ideas for saving our small planet.
Drawing from the author's professional experience working with petroleum refineries petroleum refineries, petrochemical plants, and natural gas wells, this handbook explains how to operate and retrofit process facilities to: Reuse existing process equipmentSave energyReduce greenhouse gas emissionsExpand plant capacity without installing new equipmentReduce corrosion and equipment failures
Covering topics from expanding fractionator and compressor capacity and vacuum tower heater expansion to minimizing process water consumption and increasing centrifugal pump capacity, "Process Engineering for a Small Planet" offers big ideas for saving our small planet.
296 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 21, 2010
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December 25, 2022
A practical guide for saving money also
Most home repair boos are a dime a dozen until you find that one that not only tells of standard repairs but how to refurbish and fix the day-to-day problems like white cleaning furniture as opposed to messy cats.
This book is for engineers and industrial maintenance people. Again, it is not one of those namby-pambies save the forest books written by a well-meaning person that has no idea of what processing equipment is all about. I spent 10 years working on different processing equipment (some built for one-time proprietary processes) and I can tell you that Norman P. Lieberman knows his stuff. It is too late for me but you can learn some things "before" you need them.
The book is in a textbook format with a summary and further reference reading. The diagrams and formulas are simple but not too simple to get the point across. You can use the equipment manuals to complete the project.
Normally you cannot get your hands on the writer as some disembodied entity. Norman P. Lieberman even leaves a phone number. Now that is integrity.
Most home repair boos are a dime a dozen until you find that one that not only tells of standard repairs but how to refurbish and fix the day-to-day problems like white cleaning furniture as opposed to messy cats.
This book is for engineers and industrial maintenance people. Again, it is not one of those namby-pambies save the forest books written by a well-meaning person that has no idea of what processing equipment is all about. I spent 10 years working on different processing equipment (some built for one-time proprietary processes) and I can tell you that Norman P. Lieberman knows his stuff. It is too late for me but you can learn some things "before" you need them.
The book is in a textbook format with a summary and further reference reading. The diagrams and formulas are simple but not too simple to get the point across. You can use the equipment manuals to complete the project.
Normally you cannot get your hands on the writer as some disembodied entity. Norman P. Lieberman even leaves a phone number. Now that is integrity.
February 1, 2022
Highly recommended
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