A Working Guide to Process Equipment, Third Edition |
Foreword |
Preface to Third Edition |
Preface to Second Edition |
Preface to First Edition |
Introduction |
Chapter 1 |
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Process Equipment Fundamentals |
Chapter 2 |
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Basic Terms and Conditions |
Chapter 3 |
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How Trays Work: Flooding—Downcomer Backup |
Chapter 4 |
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How Trays Work: Dumping—Weeping through Tray Decks |
Chapter 5 |
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Why Control Tower Pressure—Options for Optimizing Tower Operating Pressure |
Chapter 6 |
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What Drives Distillation Towers—Reboiler Function |
Chapter 7 |
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How Reboilers Work—Thermosyphon, Gravity Feed, and Forced |
Chapter 8 |
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Inspecting Tower Internals |
Chapter 9 |
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How Instruments Work—Levels, Pressures, Flows, and Temperatures |
Chapter 10 |
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Packed Towers: Better than Trays?—Packed-Bed Vapor and Liquid Distribution |
Chapter 11 |
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Steam and Condensate Systems—Water Hammer and Condensate Backup Steam-Side Reboiler Control |
Chapter 12 |
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Bubble Point and Dew Point—Equilibrium Concepts in Vapor-Liquid Mixtures |
Chapter 13 |
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Steam Strippers—Source of Latent Heat of Vaporization |
Chapter 14 |
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Draw-Off Nozzle Hydraulics—Nozzle Cavitation Due to Lack of Hydrostatic Head |
Chapter 15 |
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Pumparounds and Tower Heat Flows—Closing the Tower Enthalpy Balance |
Chapter 16 |
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Condensers and Tower Pressure Control—Hot-Vapor Bypass: Flooded Condenser Control |
Chapter 17 |
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Air Coolers—Fin-Fan Coolers |
Chapter 18 |
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Deaerators and Steam Systems—Generating Steam in Boilers and BFW Preparation |
Chapter 19 |
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Vacuum Systems: Steam Jet Ejectors—Steam Jet Ejectors |
Chapter 20 |
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Steam Turbines—Use of Horsepower Valves and Correct Speed Control |
Chapter 21 |
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Surface Condensers—The Condensing Steam Turbine |
Chapter 22 |
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Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers—Heat-Transfer Fouling Resistance |
Chapter 23 |
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Heat Exchanger Innovations |
Chapter 24 |
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Fired Heaters: Fire- and Flue-Gas Side—Draft and Afterburn; Optimizing Excess Air |
Chapter 25 |
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Fired Heaters: Process Side—Coking Furnace Tubes and Tube Failures |
Chapter 26 |
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Refrigeration Systems—An Introduction to Centrifugal Compressors |
Chapter 27 |
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Cooling Water Systems |
Chapter 28 |
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Catalytic Effects: Equilibrium and Kinetics |
Chapter 29 |
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Centrifugal Pumps: Fundamentals of Operation—Head, Flow, and Pressure |
Chapter 30 |
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Centrifugal Pumps: Driver Limits—Electric Motors and Steam Turbines |
Chapter 31 |
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Centrifugal Pumps: Suction Pressure Limits—Cavitation and Net Positive Suction Head |
Chapter 32 |
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Control Valves |
Chapter 33 |
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Separators: Vapor-Hydrocarbon-Water—Liquid Settling Rates |
Chapter 34 |
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Gas Compression: The Basic Idea—The Second Law of Thermodynamics Made Easy |
Chapter 35 |
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Centrifugal Compressors and Surge—Overamping the Motor Driver |
Chapter 36 |
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Reciprocating Compressors—The Carnot Cycle; Use of Indicator Card |
Chapter 37 |
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Compressor Efficiency—Effect on Driver Load |
Chapter 38 |
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Safety Concerns—Relief Valves, Corrosion, and Safety Trips |
Chapter 39 |
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Corrosion—Process Units |
Chapter 40 |
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Fluid Flow in Pipes—Basic Ideas to Evaluate Newtonian and Non-Newtonian Flow |
Chapter 41 |
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Super-Fractionation Separation Stage |
Chapter 42 |
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Computer Modeling and Control |
Chapter 43 |
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Field Troubleshooting Process Problems |
Glossary |
The Norm Lieberman Video Library of Troubleshooting Process Operations |
