Basic Principles and Calculations in Process Technology

Preface

There is too much detail in science that is too complex for process operators. That was a criticism of the first draft of this book. In addition, not every process technologist will need everything this book provides. However, the book was not written for the lowest common dominator. We cannot know in advance the exact physics to describe a process that an operator may encounter. Instead, this book is meant to educate process technologists by providing the basic principles that govern and explain their operations. It is a language guide for communication between process technologists and chemical engineers.

Why is the discharge from a sales-gas compressor hot when an engineer says the process is “adiabatic,” which means that there is ...