A Compilation Of Cover Stories And Featured Reports Guidebook- 2017 - electronic book

This comprehensive 239-page guidebook compiles all 2017 articles from Chemical Engineering magazine, including Feature Reports and Cover Stories. Designed for chemical engineers, these practical, how-to articles provide concise, factual information that can be directly applied across a broad section of the chemical process industries.

Articles Include

• Overcoming Corrosive Processes with High-Alloyed Stainless Steels – addressing corrosion in phosphoric and nitric acid processes
• What’s Corroding Your Control Room? – preventing corrosion-induced failures in electronic equipment
• High Purity Chemicals: Processing Equipment Essentials – design and fabrication tips for piping and equipment
• Heat Exchanger Standards for Shell-and-Tube Equipment – overview of applicable standards for reliable operation
• Special Flange Joints in Floating-Head Heat Exchangers – design details, advantages, and disadvantages
• A Primer on Compressor Design – from concept to final calculation, including simulation and intuition
• Control Engineering for Chemical Engineers – improving process designs through awareness of control challenges
• Eye Protection, Part 1 & 2 – enhancing worker safety and avoiding lens fogging
• Batch Drying with Vacuum Contact Dryers – solvent removal without altering product chemistry
• Optimizing Analysis for Spray-Drying – real-time particle size and shape measurement
• Crossflow Membrane Filtration Essentials – process design, equipment selection, and control
• Gas-Phase Filtration Media Properties – understanding physical properties that impact adsorbent performance
• Implementing an Integrity Operating Window Program – safe operating limits to reduce risk and repairs
• Storage Tanks: Heating and Cooling System Design – options, design factors, and sample calculations
• Practical Solutions to Modular Project Execution – guidance to improve capital project outcomes
• Getting the Most from Severe Service Valves – increasing service life, reducing costs, improving safety
• Activated Carbon: Fundamentals and New Applications – water purification and air-pollution control sorbents
• Rupture Discs: Effectively Minimize Leaks and Emissions – mechanical and operational considerations
• Proper Sizing and Installation for Steam System Safety Valves – adhering to industry standards
• Reboiler Circuit Debottleneck with No Hardware Changes – case study on gas plant optimization
• Dry-Tray Pressure Drop of Sieve Trays Revisited – literature correlation for pressure drop calculation
• Mixing: Impeller Performance in Stirred Tanks – power, flow, shear, and efficiency characterization
• Drones Take to the CPI Skies – inspection and monitoring applications in chemical processing
• Odor Issues and Solutions for Wastewater Treatment – identifying causes and remedial actions
• Smart Water-Management Strategies – integrating water management for cost savings
• Feeder Design for Solids Handling – optimizing feeders for bins, hoppers, and bulk materials
• Choosing Agglomeration Equipment, Part 2 – equipment types and agglomeration methods
• Valves: Emissions Standards and Current Practices – sealing, packing, and testing for reduced fugitive emissions
• Minimizing Leakage on Heat-Exchanger Girth Flanges – design measures to mitigate thermal distortion
• Confronting Crystallization Issues – structured approach to industrial crystallization challenges
• Cooling Towers: Keeping Your Power Plant Cool – guidelines for selecting appropriate systems
• Powder and Bulk Solids Handling: Particle Size & Distribution Analysis – design and operational considerations
• Cost Engineering Integrating Technology and Economics – process synthesis model to reduce costs
• Decommissioning: Preparing Plants for a Retrofit – guidance on safe and efficient retrofits
• Cost Engineering Time Value of Money – strategies to minimize risk and maximize project profits