Chemical Engineering Design: Principles, Practice and Economics of Plant and Process Design

by Gavin Towler, Ray Sinnott

Bottom For a holistic view of chemical engineering design, this book provides as much, if not more, than any other book available on the topic. --Extract from Chemical Engineering Resources review. Chemical Engineering Design is one of the best-known and widely adopted texts available for students of chemical engineering. It deals with the application of chemical engineering principles to the design of chemical processes and equipment. Revised throughout, this US edition has been specifically developed for the US market. It covers the latest aspects of process design, operations, safety, loss prevention and equipment selection, among others. Comprehensive in coverage, exhaustive in detail, it is supported by extensive problems and a separate solutions manual for adopting tutors and lecturers. In addition, the book is widely used by professions as a day-to-day reference.

Genres: Textbooks

1266 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 2007

About the author

Gavin Towler is the Senior Director of Development at UOP. UOP is a leading supplier of catalysts, process technology, proprietary equipment and services to the oil, gas and petrochemical industry, based in Des Plaines, Illinois. Gavin is accountable for managing technology development and delivery for all UOP business units.

He has 20 years of broad experience of process and product design, including refining, gas and petrochemical processes, separations, heat integration, refinery optimization, fuel cells and process miniaturization and has 39 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 Director of the AIChE and Secretary of the CACHE Corporation.

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