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A Practical Approach to Chemical Engineering for Non-Chemical Engineers

  • 1st Edition - September 19, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Moe Toghraei
  • Language: English

A Practical Approach to Chemical Engineering for Non-Chemical Engineers is aimed at people who are dealing with chemical engineers or those who are involved in chemical processin… Read more

Description

A Practical Approach to Chemical Engineering for Non-Chemical Engineers is aimed at people who are dealing with chemical engineers or those who are involved in chemical processing plants. The book demystifies complicated chemical engineering concepts through daily life examples and analogies. It contains many illustrations and tables that facilitate quick and in-depth understanding of the concepts handled in the book. By studying this book, practicing engineers (non-chemical), professionals, technicians and other skilled workers will gain a deeper understanding of what chemical engineers say and ask for.

The book is also useful for engineering students who plan to get into chemical engineering and want to know more on the topic and any related jargon.

Key features

  • Provides numerous graphs, images, sketches, tables, help better understanding of concepts in a visual way
  • Describes complicated chemical engineering concepts by daily life examples and analogies, rather than by formula
  • Includes a virtual tour of an imaginary process plant
  • Explains the majority of units in chemical engineering

Readership

Practicing engineers, professionals, and technicians collaborating with chemical engineers in their daily workspace. Students in engineering who wanted to get into chemical engineering program at universities

Table of contents

Part 1: Chemical Engineering and Process Industries

1. Process Industry Elements: Equipment and Pipes

2. Process Industry Elements: Utilities

3. Process Industry Elements: Instrumentation and Control

Part 2: Chemical Engineers' toolbox

4. Discipline Deliverables

5. Standards and Codes

6. Concepts of materials

7. Principles of Material Change

8. Concepts of Equipment and Pipes

Part 3: Unit Operations and process units

9. Common Principles of Conversions

10. Unit Operations: Mechanical Separations

11. Unit Operations: Mass transfer-based separations

12. Process Units: Reactions

13. Unit Operations: Dealing with discrete form of materials

14. Process Plant Design

Part 4: Chemical engineering activities as a social action

15. Risk Management

16. Economical aspects

17. Health Requirements

18. Safety Requirements of Plants

19. Environment Concerns

20. Material of Construction and Corrosion

Appendices: Brief explanation of chemical engineering courses

1. Fluid Mechanic

2. Heat Transfer

3. Mass Transfer

4. Thermodynamics

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: September 22, 2021
  • Language: English

About the author

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Moe Toghraei

Moe Toghraei, M.Sc., P.Eng. is Process Engineer who has more than 25 years' experience in chemical engineering, and more than 20 years' experience in teaching. He has in-depth knowledge in project management skills including, man-hour estimation, budgeting, scheduling, and planning. Currently he is an independent Project/Process Engineer. Up to 2011 he was Lead Engineer with CH2M and Jacobs, Calgary, Alberta, Lead Process Specialist with Worley Parsons; Calgary, Alberta. He authored the book “Piping and instrumentation diagram development” published with Wiley-AIChE in 2019. He developed and instructed in-class training courses on “Water treatment in the oil industry”, “De-Oiling: Oil Removal From Water”, “P&ID: Reading & Interpretation”, “Practical Process Control: A P&ID Approach”, “Pressure Safety Valves”, and online training courses on “Process Engineering for Control Practitioners", “Process Engineering for Control Practitioners", “Chemical Engineering for non-chemical engineers”.
Affiliations and expertise
Independent Project/Process Engineer

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