Process Plant Design and Operation, by D. Scott and F. Crawley. Institution of Chemical Engineers, UK (1992). 141 pp. ISBN 0-85295-278-3.
✍ Scribed by Ray, Martyn S
- Publisher
- Curtin University of Technology
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 92 KB
- Volume
- 1
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0969-1855
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✦ Synopsis
hate this approach! Why? Because it requires them to think outside the 'guidelines' of a traditional textbook (e.g. Coulson and Richardson) and beyond the standard tutorial-type problems. It asks the reader to do what they should be required to do more oftennamely, to tackle unfamiliar problems and situations.
Perhaps some lecturers might like to consider this option?
Martyn S Ray Process Plant Design and Operation, by D. Scott and F. Crawley. Institution of Chemical Engineers, UK (1992). 141 pp. ISBN 0-85295-278-3. This book is another new publication from the IChemE in their excellent series of User Guides, replacing Flowsheeting for Safety. The series is well known for the practical content and useful advice and this book maintains that tradition. It covers many aspects of importance to graduate engineers and is written by two practitioners working in the field of loss prevention and safety. The Forward states that it was intended to provide general advice on safety and loss prevention to young graduate engineers. The book does this very well, but it will also be useful to final year undergraduates and should be essential reading as part of a plant desigdsafety unit. It will provide a good supplement to the writings of Trevor Kletz! The basic message of this book is that "safety should be considered at the design stage of every project, this makes plant development cheaper and safer". I would hope that this is emphasised many times to our undergraduates. Although safety and loss prevention are probably mainly confined to a particular section of the syllabus, I hope that their importance is stressed during all laboratory and design studies. In most chapters safety is considered during the four major phases of a project, namely conceptual design, detailed design, start-up, and operation. This makes the layout and scope of the book easy to follow, but it also runs the risk of letting the reader think that safety can be pigeon holed! The authors warn in the Appendix when considering the presentation of checklists that "there is a