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A working guide to process equipment

Overview: The latest methods for troubleshooting and maintaining process equipment. Applicable to a broad range of technicians and industries and fully updated throughout, A Working Guide to Process Equipment, Fourth Edition, explains how to diagnose, troubleshoot, and correct problems with chemical and petroleum refining process equipment. Nine new chapters cover: Tray design details. -- Shell-and-tube heat exchanger design details. -- Relief valve system design. -- Vapor lock and exchanger flooding in steam systems. -- Steam generation operating and design details -- Wastewater strippers. Thermodynamics: how it applies to process equipment. Centrifugal pumps: reducing seal and bearing failures. Hand calculations for distillation towers. Vapor: liquid equilibrium, absorption, and stripping calculations. Filled with examples and illustrations, this practical resource demonstrates how theory applies to solving real-world plant operation problems. Selected hand calculation methods are also provided. Comprehensive coverage includes: Distillation Tower Trays -- Tower Pressure Control -- Distillation Towers -- Reboilers -- Tower Internals -- Instruments -- Packed Towers -- Steam and Condensate Systems -- Bubble Point and Dew Point -- Steam Strippers -- Draw-Off Nozzle Hydraulics -- Pumparounds and Tower Heat Flows -- Condensers and Tower Pressure Control -- Air Coolers -- Deaerators and Steam Systems -- Steam Generation -- Wastewater Strippers -- Vacuum Systems -- Steam Turbines -- Surface Condensers -- Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers -- Fired Heaters -- Refrigeration Systems -- Cooling Water Systems -- Catalytic Effects -- Centrifugal Pumps -- Control Valves -- Separators -- Centrifugal Compressors and Surge -- Reciprocating Compressors -- Corrosion -- Fluid Flow in Pipes -- Super-Fractionation Stage -- Computer Control -- Field Troubleshooting.

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