Chemical Engineering Design

Ray Sinnott's varied career, mainly in design and development, began with several major companies including Dupont and John Brown. The main areas covered within these appointments were: Gas Production and Distribution, Nuclear Energy, Elastomers and Textile fibres. After his career in industry he joined the Chemical Engineering Department, University of Wales Swansea in 1970, specialising in teaching process and plant design, and other engineering practice subjects. The first edition of Chemical Engineering Design (Coulson and Richardson’s Vol 6) was published in 1983. Subsequent editions have been published at approximately 5 year intervals.Ray Sinnott retired from full time teaching in 1995 but has maintained close contact with the engineering profession.

Introduction to Design. Fundamentals of Material Balances. Fundamentals of Energy Balances. Flow-sheeting. Piping and Instrumentation. Costing and Project Evaluation. Materials of Construction. Design Information and Data. Safety and Loss Prevention. Equipment Selection, Specification and Design. Separation Columns (Distillation and Absorption). Heat-transfer Equipment. Mechanical Design of Process Equipment. General Site Considerations. Appendix A: Graphical Symbols for Piping Systems and Plant. Appendix B: A Simple Flow-sheeting Program MASSBAL. Appendix C: Corrosion Chart. Appendix D: Physical Property Data Bank. Appendix E: Conversion Factors for Some Common SI Units. Appendix F: Standard Flanges. Appendix G: Design Projects. Appendix H: Equipment Specification (Data) Sheets. Appendix I: Enrgybal: A Simple Energy Balance Program. Appendix J: Typical Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger Tube-sheet Layouts. Author Index. Subject Index.