NOTES PERTAINING TO TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Text of Note
Norman P. Lieberman, Elizabeth T. Lieberman
NOTES PERTAINING TO EDITION AND BIBLIOGRAPHIC HISTORY
Text of Note
Fourth edition
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Process equipment fundamentals -- Basic terms and conditions -- How trays work: flooding -- How trays work: dumping: weeping through tray decks -- Notes on tray design details -- Why control tower pressure: options for optimizing tower operating pressure -- What drives distillation towers: reboiler function -- How reboilers work: thermosyphon, gravity feed, and forced -- Inspecting tower internals -- How instruments work: levels, pressures, flows, and temperatures -- Packed towers: better than trays?: Packed-bed vapor and liquid distribution -- Steam and condensate systems: water hammer and condensate backup steam-side reboiler control -- Vapor lock and exchanger flooding in steam systems -- Bubble point and dew point: equilibrium concepts in vapor-liquid mixtures -- Steam strippers: source of latent heat of vaporization -- Draw-off nozzle hydraulics: nozzle cavitation due to lack of hydrostatic head -- Pumparounds and tower heat flows: closing the tower enthalpy balance -- Condensers and tower pressure control: hot-vapor bypass: flooded condenser control -- Air coolers: fin-fan coolers -- Thermodynamics: how it applies to process equipment -- Deaerators and steam systems: generating steam in boilers and BFW preparation -- Steam generation -- Vacuum systems: steam jet ejectors -- Steam turbines: use of horsepower valves and correct speed control -- Surface condensers: the condensing steam turbine -- Shell-and-tube heat exchangers: heat-transfer fouling resistance -- Heat exchanger innovations -- Shell-and-tube heat exchangers: design details -- Fired heaters: fire- and flue-gas side: draft and afterburn; optimizing excess air -- Fired heaters: process side: coking furnace tubes and tube failures -- Refrigeration systems: an introduction to centrifugal compressors -- Cooling water systems -- Catalytic effects: equilibrium and kinetics -- Centrifugal pumps: fundamentals of operation: head, flow, and pressure -- Centrifugal pumps: driver limits: electric motors and steam turbines -- Centrifugal pumps: suction pressure limits: cavitation and net positive suction head -- Centrifugal pumps: reducing seal and bearing failures -- Control valves -- Separators: vapor-hydrocarbon-water: liquid settling rates -- Gas compression: the basic idea: the second law of thermodynamics made easy -- Centrifugal compressors and surge: overamping the motor driver -- Reciprocating compressors: the Carnot cycle; use of indicator card -- Compressor efficiency: effect on driver load -- Safety concerns: relief valves, corrosion, and safety trips -- Relief valve system design -- Corrosion-process units -- Waste water strippers -- Fluid flow in pipes: basic ideas to evaluate Newtonian and non-Newtonian flow -- Super-fractionation separation stage -- Hand calculations for distillation towers: vapor-liquid equilibrium, absorption, and stripping calculations -- Computer modeling and control -- Field troubleshooting process problems