Process Engineering Equipment Handbook

✍ Scribed by Claire Marguerite Soares, Claire Marquerite Soares

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 1544
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The first practical guide for process engineers, covering nearly every type of process-related equipment, Process Engineering Equipment Handbook is the fastest way to master process environments. This hands-on reference helps you - Understand and specify all types of auxiliary process equipment and materials.Provide engineering and operating expertise on machinery that is of prime importance in process engineering, including compressors and pumps, gas and steam turbines, fans, blowers and motors-both as individual components and as part of a supplied total package.Explore various applications, such as mechanical drive and direct drive (power generation service) for gas turbines, major support systems including instrumentation, and key components such as bearings and seals, all with reference to practical applications.Troubleshoot and solve problems in unfamiliar machines and componentsWork effectively with control, environmental, mechanical, civil, and other technical specialists.Handle issues with filters, seals, fans, dryers, nozzles, gaskets, elements made of unusual materials, blowers, connectors, gas and steam turbines, conveyors, feeders, joints, mills, controls, and many other categories of process equipment.Gain valuable insight into the topics of vibration analysis and life-cycle assessment.Perform major and minor audits of existing plants and machinery trains.The best source of on-the-job guidance for process engineers, Process Engineering Equipment Handbook provides the answers you seek, in quick-access alphabetical order.

✦ Table of Contents

1. Front Matter.pdf......Page 1
   1.1 Contributors......Page 3
   1.2 About the Author......Page 9
   2-Preface.pdf......Page 10
   3-Intro.pdf......Page 13
   Table of Contents......Page 15
   ASME Specifications ... Air Purification; Air Sterilization......Page 20
   Balancing; Onspeed Balancing of a Rotor ... Briquette Machines (Similar to Pelletizing and Balling Machines)......Page 124
   CAD/CAM ... Crushers......Page 152
   Dampeners ... Ducting; Ducting and Joints......Page 589
   ECM (Engine Condition Monitoring) ... Extraction, Liquid-Solid......Page 607
   Fans, Centrifugal ... Fuels, Alternative; Fuels, Gas Turbine......Page 694
   Gas Turbine Cleaning or Washing ... Grinding Wheels......Page 739
   Hazards ... Hydraulic Filters......Page 759
   Industrial Ecological Park ... Irradiation, Food Product......Page 782
   LCA ... Lubrication......Page 787
   Magnetic Bearings ... Motors......Page 816
   Noise and Noise Measurement ... Nozzles......Page 859
   Oil Analysis ... Ozone......Page 860
   Packaging ... Pumps......Page 886
   Reactors; Chemical Reactors ... Regenerator......Page 1217
   Seals; Gas Seals ... Steam Generator and Steam Supply......Page 1236
   Tanks ... Turboexpanders......Page 1274
   Ultrasonic Cleaning......Page 1390
   Valves ... Vibration Measurement......Page 1399
   Waste Heat Recovery ... Welding......Page 1430
   Some Commonly Used Specifications, Codes, Standards, Texts......Page 1442
   Codes & Standards, ASME......Page 1480
   Index......Page 1516