Description
Chemical Engineering’s Facts At Your Fingertips package includes a series of twelve condensed, one-page reference cards that provide useful rules of thumb, common equations and other practical tips for designing, operating and maintaining chemical process equipment.
This guidebook is available in a downloadable PDF.
The topics covered in 2017 include the following:
Solids-Blending Processes
Batch versus continuous, Blending mechanisms, Random versus ordered blend, Segregation and sampling
Steam Concepts
Pressure-temperature relation, Wet steam region, Industrial practice, Steam grades
Fermentation
Fermentation advantages, Fermentation challenges
Gas Detection
Gas sensor classes
Pressure-Based Level Measurement
Differential pressure
Alarm Management
Alarm frequency, Average alarm rate, Causes of high alarm rates
Zeolites
Zeolite structure, Major industrial uses, Catalysis chemistry
Blending
Batch blending, Continuous blending, Questions to consider
Heat-Transfer Fluid Selection
Process requirements, Cost of ownership, Product and data support
Air Separation Processes
Air separation approaches, Non-cryogenic air separation, Cryogenic separation
Filter Aids
Filter aid function, Filter aid materials, Filter aid selection
Agglomeration and Granulation
Wet agglomeration, Compaction processes
