Process Design, Economics, and Project Engineering

The principal goal of this textbook is to prepare process and chemical engineers for careers in a wide variety of process‑related jobs. This book will also serve as a reference resource for engineers working in the process and process design industries. It assumes prerequisite knowledge of material and energy balances, heat transfer, fluid flow, and mass transfer but does not require any prerequisite knowledge of economics, process control, process safety, or material selection. Its structure is uniquely organized to follow the project life cycle that is most commonly used by engineering contractors and the operating companies they serve in the process industries.

KEY FEATURES

Covers both retrofit and new process projects

Includes a set of easy‑to‑use, step‑by‑step preliminary equipment sizing methods

Offers realistic rules of thumb for equipment sizing and pressure profiles

Discusses professional development topics such as time management, planning and scheduling, teamwork, leadership, conflict resolution, technical writing, effective meetings, and oral communication

Addresses safety and sustainability considerations in process design

Includes a unified suite of cost estimating methods for simple retrofits, major retrofits, and grassroots projects

Covers process/project economics and how to evaluate process opportunities, including a method to estimate economic benefits for difficult to quantify opportunities

Includes information on plant layout, auxiliary systems, and process automation

Features homework problems and examples, case study example reports, Visio drawing templates, and Excel workbooks with example calculations for economic analysis

This textbook is aimed at advanced undergraduate students in chemical engineering studying process plant design and economics and serves as a handbook for practicing process and process project engineers. A solutions manual and lecture slides are available to qualifying adopting instructors.