Product Description

The most complete guide of its kind, this is the standard handbook for chemical and process engineers. All new material on fluid flow, long pipe, fractionators, separators and accumulators, cooling towers, gas treating, blending, troubleshooting field cases, gas solubility, and density of irregular solids. This substantial addition of material will also include conversion tables and a new appendix, Shortcut Equipment Design Methods. This convenient volume helps solve field engineering problems with its hundreds of common sense techniques, shortcuts, and calculations. Here, in a compact, easy-to-use format, are practical tips, handy formulas, correlations, curves, charts, tables, and shortcut methods that will save engineers valuable time and effort. Hundreds of common sense techniques and calculations help users quickly and accurately solve day-to-day design, operations, and equipment problems.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1149377 in Books
• Published on: 2002-11-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 426 pages

Review
"Branan's useful and convenient handbook for chemical and process engineers (at a bargain price) will be much appreciated by students and practitioners... (American Reference Books Annual) ...this book is a handy reference tool for preliminary designs, and has some very useful information on several aspects of plant operation. (Chemical Engineering) Carl Brannan's book provides a huge amount of valuable information on a wide variety of chemical engineering applications from sizing pipelines to economic evaluation of process options. (IChemE: Institute of Chemical Engineers)

About the Author
By Carl R. Branan

Customer Reviews

A concise and vital book for any practicing process engineer
This book covers such a wide range of topics and yet is easy to dip in to to help resolve every day problems. Especially suitable for process engineers working in an operating environment where problems need to be resolved on the back of the preverbial fag packet.

Very useful as a quick reference
As a process engineer in upstream oil & gas, I have found this to be very useful for "twenty twenty" calculations: getting within 20% of the answer within 20 minutes.

More concise and accessible than GPSA Databook, and more practical and less academic than Perry, this is perfect for keeping on your desk within easy reach.