Multistage Separation Processes

The latest edition of a perennial bestseller, Multistage Separation Processes, Fourth Edition provides a clear and thorough presentation of the theoretical foundation, and understanding of the development, evaluation, design, and optimization steps of these processes, from both an academic and industrial perspective. The book's emphasis on starting

Multistage separation processes are essentially the heart and soul of the petroleum, petrochemical, and chemical industries. They yield products as common as gasoline and plastics and those as specialized as medical-grade pharmaceuticals. Predicting the Performance of Multistage Separation Processes provides chemical engineers with solid information and insights into these processes. It reaches beyond fundamental principles to focus on intuitive understanding and practical interpretation. To that end, it presents numerous examples from a variety of applications, effectively demonstrating the performance of processes under varying conditions and the relationship among the different operating variables. With major advances in computational techniques for solving complex multistage separation equations, a variety of simulation programs have emerged that allow accurate and efficient prediction of multistage separation processes. These are valuable and effective tools, but are often hampered by a lack of understanding of the fundamentals and limitations of prediction techniques. The author addresses these problems and pursues a strategy that decouples the discussion of conceptual analysis and the computational techniques. Although Dr. Khoury presents mathematical methods in detail, he gives special attention to keeping the practical interpretation of the models in focus and emphasizes intuitive understanding. He applies graphical techniques and shortcut methods wherever possible and includes industrial practice heuristics about the ranges of operating variables that will work. With its updates and the addition of more than 100 new applications problems and solutions, Predicting the Performance of Multistage Separation Processes, Second Edition is ideal for a methodical study of separation processes and as a reference for the fundamental principles and shortcuts useful to the working professional.

The development of computer-aided simulation programs for separation processes provides engineers with valuable tools to make more reliable qualitative and quantitative decisions in plant design and operation. Written by a specialist in modeling and optimization, Multistage Separation Processes, Third Edition clarifies the effective use of simulators by giving a conceptual analysis of the material and explaining various computation techniques. The book accentuates performance prediction, an essential component of the efficient design and operation, of multistage separation processes. Unlike other textbooks, this book emphasizes computer modeling, expert interpretation of models, and it discusses modern simulation techniques. It presents rigorous mathematical models of separation processes, illustrated by numerous examples from a variety of applications, and demonstrates their performance under varying conditions and different operating variables. The author also shows how shortcut and graphical methods can be used to make preliminary and reliable decisions on action plans. He explains the major algorithms used for solving multi-component separations and features techniques used to combat factors that affect control and optimization of separation processes. This third edition presents a significant amount of new information, including new material on column dynamics, batch distillation, membrane separations, dialysis, reverse osmosis, dynamic behavior, and multivariable control issues. Organized in self-contained chapters that follow a logical flow of ideas, the new edition of Multistage Separation Processes is an ideal textbook for advanced university students and a valuable reference for practicing engineers in the process industry and in engineering process design, particularly in the petroleum, petrochemical, and chemical industries.

Originally published: New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971. 2nd ed. Includes a new introduction.

Chemical engineer Khoury explains the performance prediction of multistage separation processes for interactions between vapor and liquids. These processes are at the heart of the petroleum, petrochemical, and chemical industries. Although mathematical models are presented in some detail, special attention is paid to the practical interpretation of the models. Industrial heuristics about what ranges of operating variables will work are also included. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Separation operations are crucial throughout the process industry with respect to energy consumption, contribution to investments and ability to achieve the desired product with the right specifications. Our main objective in creating thisgraduate level textbook is to present an overview of the fundamentals underlying the most frequently used industrial separation methods. We focus on their physical principles and the basic computation methods that are required to assess their technical and economical feasibility. The textbook is organized into three main parts. Separation processes for homogeneous mixtures are treated in the parts on equilibrium based molecular separations and rate-controlled molecular separations. The part on mechanical separation technology presents an overview of the most important techniques for heterogeneous mixture separation. Each chapter provides a condensed overview of the most commonly used equipment types. The textbook is concluded with a final chapter on the main considerations in selecting an appropriate separation process for a separation task. As the design of separation processes can only be learned by doing, we have included exercises at the end of each chapter. Short answers are given at the end of this book; detailed solutions are given in a separate solution manual.