Product Description

This new edition of the most complete handbook for chemical and process engineers incorporates the latest information for engineers and practitioners who depend on it as a working tool. New material explores the recent trends and updates of gas treating and fractionator computer solutions analysis. Substantial additions to this edition include a new section on gasification that reflects the many new trends and techniques in the field and a treatment on compressible fluid flow.

This convenient volume provides engineers with hundreds of common sense techniques, shortcuts, and calculations to quickly and accurately solve day-to-day design, operations, and equipment problems. 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.

* The standard handbook for chemical and process engineers

* All new material on pinch point analysis on networks of heat exchangers and updates on gas treating in process design and heat transfer

* Hundreds of common sense techniques and calculations

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #155477 in Books
• Published on: 2005-09-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 496 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 Branan'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
Carl R. Branan has more than 40 years of worldwide experience in process design and troubleshooting in oil, chemicals, fibers, polymers, coal, natural gas, and LNG. Before retiring from El Paso Natural Gas, he served a process engineer, plant engineer, and project engineer. Mr. Branan is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and is the author of several books on process engineering and fractionators, including Rules of Thumb for Chemical Engineers.

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.