A working guide to process equipment : how process equipment works /
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| Author / Creator: | Lieberman, Norman P. |
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| Imprint: | New York : McGraw-Hill, c1997. |
| Description: | xvii, 425 p. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2555236 |
Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. How Trays Work: Flooding: Downcomer Backup
- Ch. 2. How Trays Work: Dumping: Weeping Through Tray Decks
- Ch. 3. Why Control Tower Pressure: Options for Optimizing Tower Operating Pressure
- Ch. 4. What Drives Distillation Towers: Reboiler Function
- Ch. 5. How Reboilers Work: Thermosyphon, Gravity Feed, and Forced
- Ch. 6. How Instruments Work: Levels, Pressures, Flows, and Temperatures
- Ch. 7. Packed Towers: Better than Trays? Packed-Bed Vapor and Liquid Distribution
- Ch. 8. Steam and Condensate Systems: Water Hammer and Condensate Backup Steam-Side Reboiler Control
- Ch. 9. Bubble Point and Dew Point: Equilibrium Concepts in Vapor-Liquid Mixtures
- Ch. 10. Steam Strippers: Source of Latent Heat of Vaporization
- Ch. 11. Draw-off Nozzle Hydraulics: Nozzle Cavitation Due to Lack of Hydrostatic Head
- Ch. 12. Pumparounds and Tower Heat Flows: Closing the Tower Enthalpy Balance
- Ch. 13. Condensers and Tower Pressure Control: Hot-Vapor Bypass: Flooded Condenser Control
- Ch. 14. Air Coolers: Fin-Fan Coolers
- Ch. 15. Deaerators and Steam Systems: Generating Steam in Boilers and BFW Preparation
- Ch. 16. Vacuum Systems: Steam Jet Ejectors: Steam Jet Ejectors
- Ch. 17. Steam Turbines: Use of Horsepower Valves and Correct Speed Control
- Ch. 18. Surface Condensers: The Condensing Steam Turbine
- Ch. 19. Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers: Heat-Transfer Fouling Resistance
- Ch. 20. Fired Heaters: Fire- and Flue-Gas-Side: Draft and Afterburn; Optimizing Excess Air
- Ch. 21. Fired Heaters: Process Side: Coking Furnace Tubes and Tube Failures
- Ch. 22. Refrigeration Systems: An Introduction to Centrifugal Compressors
- Ch. 23. Centrifugal Pumps: Fundamentals of Operation: Head, Flow, and Pressure
- Ch. 24. Centrifugal Pumps: Driver Limits: Motors, Steam Turbines, and Gears
- Ch. 25. Centrifugal Pumps: Suction Pressure Limits: Cavitation and Net Positive Suction Head
- Ch. 26. Separators: Vapor-Hydrocarbon-Water: Liquid Settling Rates
- Ch. 27. Gas Compression: The Basic Idea: The Second Law of Thermodynamics Made Easy
- Ch. 28. Centrifugal Compressors and Surge: Overamping the Motor Driver
- Ch. 29. Reciprocating Compressors: Positive Displacement and Carnot Cycle; Use of Indicator Card
- Ch. 30. Compressor Efficiency
- Ch. 31. Safety Equipment: Relief Valves, Corrosion, and Trips
- The Norm Lieberman Video Library of Troubleshooting Process Operations.
