Chemical Process Design Principles
Elementary Foundations of Transport, Separation, Metallurgy, and Plant Economics for EngineersBy Marguerite Lindqvist
Length15h 1m
About this audiobook
You can pass a transport course and still freeze in front of a blank flowsheet. This book closes that gap.
Chemical engineering fundamentals are often taught as separate subjects—fluid mechanics here, heat transfer there, thermodynamics somewhere else—leaving students and early-career engineers without a clear path from theory to a working process design. Chemical Process Design Principles bridges that gap by walking through the elementary foundations of transport, separation, metallurgy, and plant economics in one coherent sequence. You will set up material balances with recycle and purge, carry energy balances through reacting systems, size pipe and pumps with real friction and suction-head limits, and design a shell-and-tube exchanger from an overall coefficient and a corrected log mean temperature difference.
Distillation is built from equilibrium to McCabe-Thiele stages, minimum reflux, and column hydraulics, then extended to absorption, extraction, evaporation, and drying. Reactor sizing, a metallurgy chapter on phase diagrams, reduction thermodynamics, and corrosion-resistant alloy choice, and a closing block on flowsheets, capital cost estimation, cash flow, and hazard review complete the design picture. Each chapter connects directly to the next, so you finish with a working understanding of how unit operations fit into a complete process rather than a collection of isolated equations.
What you will learn:
• Apply dimensional analysis and consistent units to process variables and design calculations
• Set up material balances on non-reacting and reacting systems, including recycle and purge streams
• Carry energy balances and thermochemistry through reacting and non-reacting processes
• Use phase equilibrium and physical property data to support separation and reactor design
• Size pipe, pumps, and fluid movers with real friction and suction-head limits
• Design shell-and-tube heat exchangers using overall coefficients and corrected LMTD
• Build distillation designs from equilibrium stages to McCabe-Thiele, minimum reflux, and column hydraulics
• Extend mass transfer fundamentals to absorption, stripping, extraction, leaching, evaporation, drying, crystallisation, and mechanical separation
• Size reactors and select materials using phase diagrams, reduction thermodynamics, and corrosion-resistant alloy choice
• Read and create flowsheets, estimate capital costs, evaluate cash flow, and apply hazard review
Written for chemical and process engineering students and early-career plant engineers, this book is for anyone who needs to move from passing exams to producing defensible process designs. If you are preparing for a design course, starting a plant assignment, or returning to fundamentals after time in the field, the chapters here give you the elementary foundations and the confidence to fill in that blank flowsheet.
Audiobook details
GenreTechnology, Science and Nature
Length15 hrs 1 min
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 27, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chemical Process Design Principles
2Foreword
3Preface
4About This Book
5Important Safety Notice
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6Chapter 1: Process Variables, Units and Dimensional Analysis
71.1 Mass, Moles and Flow Rates
81.2 Composition, Concentration and Averaging
91.3 Pressure, Temperature and Their Scales
101.4 Dimensional Consistency and Unit Conversion
111.5 Significant Figures and Engineering Estimation
121.6 The Case-Study Flowsheet Introduced
13Chapter 2: Material Balances on Non-Reacting Systems
142.1 The Balance Equation and Degrees of Freedom
152.2 Single-Unit Balances on Mixers, Splitters and Dryers
162.3 Multiple-Unit Balances and Sequential Solution
172.4 Recycle, Bypass and Purge with Tie Components
182.5 Case Study: Balances on the Solvent-Recovery Flowsheet
19Chapter 3: Material Balances with Reaction
203.1 Stoichiometry, Extent of Reaction and Limiting Reactant
213.2 Conversion, Yield and Selectivity
223.3 Atomic Balances and Independent Reactions
233.4 Combustion Calculations
243.5 Case Study: Reaction Section of the Flowsheet
25Chapter 4: Energy Balances and Thermochemistry
264.1 Enthalpy, Reference States and the General Balance
274.2 Sensible Heat, Heat Capacity and Phase Change
284.3 Heat of Reaction and Hess’s Law
294.4 Coupled Mass and Energy Balances
304.5 Case Study: Energy Balance on the Flowsheet
31Chapter 5: Phase Equilibrium and Physical Properties
325.1 Equations of State and Property Estimation
335.2 Vapour Pressure, Raoult’s Law and Henry’s Law
345.3 Bubble Point, Dew Point and Flash Calculation
355.4 Non-Ideal Mixtures and Activity Coefficients
365.5 Psychrometric Properties and Humidity
37Chapter 6: Fluid Flow and Fluid Movers
386.1 The Mechanical Energy Balance and Pressure Drop
396.2 Laminar and Turbulent Flow, Friction Factor and Fittings
406.3 Pipe Sizing and Economic Velocity
416.4 Pumps, Compressors and System Curves
426.5 Net Positive Suction Head and Cavitation
43Chapter 7: Heat Transfer and Exchanger Design
447.1 Conduction and Thermal Resistance
457.2 Convection Correlations and Film Coefficients
467.3 Overall Coefficient, LMTD and Correction Factor
477.4 Shell-and-Tube Sizing and Fouling
487.5 Pinch Targets and Heat Integration
49Chapter 8: Mass Transfer Fundamentals
508.1 Molecular Diffusion and Fick’s Law
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