Process Engineering Equipment Handbook

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 components
*Work 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.

Contents

SECTION
A
ASME Specifications
Abrasives
Accident Management
Accountability, Environmental (see Environmental Accountability)
Acid Rain
Acoustic Enclosures, Turbine
Actuators
Aerfoils: Airfoils (see Metallurgy; Turbines)
Agitators
Agriculture; Agricultural Product Processing
Air Filtration; Air Inlet Filtration for Gas Turbines
Air Pollution Control
Air Purification; Air Sterilization


SECTION
B
Balancing: Onspeed Balancing of a Rotor
Balancing Problems, Troubleshooting (Turbomachinery) (see Condition Monitoring)
Batteries (see Cells)
Bearings
Blades and Vanes (for a Turbine) (see Metallurgy; Turbines)
Borescopes
Boilers
Brakes
Brick-Lined Process Equipment
Briquette Machines


SECTION
C
CAD/CAM
CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics)
Carbon; Carbon-Graphite Mix Products
Carbon Dioxide (CO2); CO2 Disposal
Castings (see Metallurgy)
Cells
Cement; Portland Cement
Centrifuges
Ceramics
Chemical Cleaning
Chemical Complex; (Petro)Chemical Complex; Chemical Plant
Chemicals
Chemicals (Toxic); Handling
Chillers; Crystalizers; Chemical Separation Method; Alternative to Distillation/Fractional Distillation
Chimneys (see Stacks)
Cleaning
Clutches (see Power Transmission)
Coatings (see Ceramics; Metallurgy)
Cogeneration
Coker (see Oil Sands)
Color Coding
Columns (see Towers and Columns)
Combustor(s); Low NOx Combustor (see Turbines)
Compressors
Condensers
Condition Monitoring (CM); Condition-Monitoring System(s) (CMS); Engine Condition Monitoring (ECM); Engine Condition-Monitoring System(s)(ECMS)
Control Regulators (see Actuators)
Control Systems; Controls
Controls, Retrofit
Conversion Tables (see Some Commonly Used Specifications, Codes, Standards, and Texts)
Conveyors
Coolant; Engine Coolant
Coolers, Dairy
Cooling; Cool, Products That (Air Conditioners); Liquid-Cooled Air Conditioners
Cooling Towers
Corrosion; Anticorrosion Coatings
Couplings (see Power Transmission)
Crushers


SECTION
D
Dampeners (see Pulsation Dampeners)
Desalination
Dialysis; Electrodialysis
Distillation; Fractional Distillation
Diverter; Diverter Damper; Diverter Valve; Flapper Valve
Doctor
Drives
Drum; Knock-Out Drum; Knock-Out Vessel (see Separators)
Drying
Ducting; Ducting and Joints


SECTION
E
ECM (Engine Condition Monitoring) (see Condition Monitoring)
ECMS (Engine Condition-Monitoring Systems) (see Condition Monitoring)
Ecological Parks; Industrial Ecological Parks
Ecosystem
Ejectors
Electric Motors; Electric Motor Controls
Emergency Power Generation (Packages) (see Engines, Gas)
Emissions; Air Emissions
Engines, Gas
Environmental Accountability
Environmental Air Monitoring (see Emissions)
Environmental Economics
Evaporative Coolers (see Chillers; Coolers, Dairy)
Exhaust Stacks (see Stacks)
Exhausters, Centrifugal Gas
Expansion Joints
Explosion; Explosion Hazard Analysis; Explosion Hazards
Extraction, Liquid-Solid


SECTION
F
Fans, Centrifugal
Filters
Flare Stacks
Floating Covers
Fluidized Bed
Forest Products
Fuel Gas Conditioning System(s)
Fuel Systems; Fuel Flow Control
Fuels, Alternative; Fuels, Gas Turbine


SECTION
G
Gas Turbine Cleaning or Washing (see Turbines)
Gas Turbines (see Turbines)
Gearboxes (see Power Transmission)
Generators; Turbogenerators
Grinding (see Abrasives; Some Commonly Used Specifications, Codes, Standards, and Texts)
Grinding Wheels (see Abrasives)


SECTION
H
Hazards (see Color Coding; Explosion; Some Commonly Used Specifications, Codes, Standards, and Texts)
Heat Exchangers
Heat Pumps; Heat Pumps, Geothermal; Heating Systems witha Renewable Energy Source
Heat Treatment (see Metallurgy)
Heaters, Electric
High-Speed Drive Systems (see Power Transmission)
Hot Isostatic Pressing (or HIPing) (see Metallurgy)
Hydraulic Filters (see Filters)


SECTION
I
Industrial Ecological Park (see Ecological Parks)
Industrial Ecology (see Ecological Parks)
Inlet Ducts and Silencers (see Acoustic Enclosures, Turbine; Air Filtration; Ducting)
Instrumentation (see Condition Monitoring; Measurement)
Insulation (see Some Commonly Used Specifications, Codes, Standards, and Texts)
Irradiation, Food Product


SECTION
L
LCA (see Life-Cycle Assessment)
LNG (see Liquid Natural Gas)
Laser Cutting, Drilling, Machining, Welding (see Metallurgy)
Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) (or Turbomachinery)
Liquid Eliminators (see Separators)
Liquid Natural Gas (LNG)
Lubrication


SECTION
M
Magnetic Bearings (see Bearings)
Measurement
Metallurgy; Metallurgical Repair; Metallurgical Refurbishment
Metering, Fluids; Metering Pumps (see Fuel Systems)
Mist Eliminators (see Separators)
Mixers (see Agitators; Centrifuges)
Monitoring (see Condition Monitoring)
Motors (see Electric Motors)


SECTION
N
Noise and Noise Measurement (see Acoustic Enclosures, Turbine)
Noise Silencing and Abatement (see Acoustic Enclosures, Turbine)
Nondestructive Testing (FP1, MP1, X Ray) (see Metallurgy)
Nozzles


SECTION
O
Oil Analysis
Oil Sand; Synthetic Crude; Tar Sands; Shale
Oxygen Analysis
Ozone


SECTION
P
Packaing
Paper (see Pulp and Paper)
Pipe (see Some Commonly Used Specifications, Codes, Standards, and Texts)
Plastics
Pollutants, Chemical; Pollutants (from) Chemical Processes; Pollutant Indicators; Pollutants, Toxic; Pollutants, Toxic Chemicals)
Portland Cement (see Cement)
Power Production; Power Production In-House; IPP; SPP
Power Transmission
Pulp and Paper
Pulsation Dampeners
Pumps


SECTION
R
Reactors; Chemical Reactors
Refineries; Petroleum
Refrigerant(s)
Regenerator

SECTION
S
Seals; Gas Seals
Separators
Snubbers (see Pulsation Dampeners)
Stacks
Steam Generator and Steam Supply

SECTION
T
Tanks
Temperature and Pressure Sensors (see Measurement)
Thermal Insulation (see Some Commonly Used Specifications, Codes, Standards, and Texts)
Thin-Film Processors (see Chillers)
Torque Converters, Measurements, and Meters (see Power Transmission)
Towers and Columns
Toxic Substances (see Pollutants, Chemical)
Transporation, of Bulk Chemicals, of Large Process Equipment
Triple Redundancy
Turbines, Gas
Turbines, Steam
Turbochargers
Turboexpanders

SECTION
U
Ultrasonic Cleaning

SECTION
V
Valves (see Control Systems)
Vanes (see Metallurgy)
Vaporizers; Vaporizer applications
Vents and Flame Arrestors
Vibration Measurement (see Condition Monitoring)

SECTION
W
Waste Heat Recovery (see Cogeneration)
Waste Management
Welding (see Metallurgy)