CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
DESIGN
Principles, Practice and
Economics of Plant and
Process Design
GAVIN TOWLER
RAY SINNOTT
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Cover Design: Joe Tenerelli
, Gavin Towler is the Senior Manager of Process Design, Modeling and Equipment at UOP LLC.
He manages the areas of process design and optimization, equipment design, and physical and kinetic
modeling for UOP Research and Development. As adjunct professor at Northwestern University,
he teaches the chemical engineering senior design classes. He is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of
the Institute of Chemical Engineers.
Ray Sinnott began his career in design and development with several major companies, including
DuPont and John Brown. He later joined the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of
Wales, Swansea, UK, publishing the first edition of Chemical Engineering Design in 1983. He is a
Chartered Engineer, Eur. Ing. and Fellow of the Institute of Chemical Engineers.
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DESIGN
Principles, Practice and
Economics of Plant and
Process Design
GAVIN TOWLER
RAY SINNOTT
AMSTERDAM • BOSTON • HEIDELBERG • LONDON
NEW YORK • OXFORD • PARIS • SAN DIEGO
SAN FRANCISCO • SINGAPORE • SYDNEY • TOKYO
Butterworth-Heinemann is an imprint of Elsevier
,Butterworth-Heinemann is an imprint of Elsevier
30 Corporate Drive, Suite 400, Burlington, MA 01803, USA
525 B Street, Suite 1900, San Diego, California 92101-4495, USA
84 Theobald’s Road, London WCIX 8RR, UK
This book is printed on acid-free paper.
Copyright © 2008, Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or
mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without
permission in writing from the publisher.
Permissions may be sought directly from Elsevier’s Science & Technology Rights Department in Oxford,
UK: phone: (+44) 1865 843830, fax: (+44) 1865 853333, E-mail: . You may
also complete your request on-line via the Elsevier homepage (http://elsevier.com), by selecting ‘‘Support &
Contact’’ then ‘‘Copyright and Permission’’ and then ‘‘Obtaining Permissions.’’
No responsibility is assumed by the publisher or the authors for any injury and/or damage to persons or
property as a matter of products liability, negligence or otherwise, of from any use or operation of any
methods, products, instructions, data or ideas contained in the material herein.
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Application Submitted
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN 13: 978-0-7506-8423-1
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visit our Web site at www.books.elsevier.com
Printed in the United States of America
07 08 09 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Cover Design: Joe Tenerelli
, Gavin Towler is the Senior Manager of Process Design, Modeling and Equipment at UOP LLC.
He manages the areas of process design and optimization, equipment design, and physical and kinetic
modeling for UOP Research and Development. As adjunct professor at Northwestern University,
he teaches the chemical engineering senior design classes. He is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of
the Institute of Chemical Engineers.
Ray Sinnott began his career in design and development with several major companies, including
DuPont and John Brown. He later joined the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of
Wales, Swansea, UK, publishing the first edition of Chemical Engineering Design in 1983. He is a
Chartered Engineer, Eur. Ing. and Fellow of the Institute of Chemical Engineers.
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