| Chapter
1. |
Process Equipment Fundamentals |
| Chapter
2. |
Basic Terms and Conditions |
| Chapter
3. |
How Trays Work: Flooding (Downcomer Backup) |
| Chapter
4. |
How Trays Work: Dumping (Weeping through Tray Decks) |
| Chapter
5. |
Why Control Tower Pressure (Options for Optimizing Tower Operating Pressure) |
| Chapter
6. |
What Drives Distillation Towers (Reboiler Function) |
| Chapter
7. |
How Reboilers Work (Thermosyphon, Gravity Feed, and Forced) |
| Chapter
8. |
Inspecting Tower Internals |
| Chapter
9. |
How Instruments Work (Levels, Pressures, Flows, and Temperatures) |
| Chapter
10. |
Packed Towers; Better than Trays? (Packed-Bed Vapor and Liquid Distribution) |
| Chapter
11. |
Steam and Condensate Systems (Water Hammer and Condensate Backup, Steam-Side
Reboiler Control)
|
| Chapter
12. |
Bubble Point and Dew Point (Equilibrium Concepts in Vapor-Liquid Mixtures) |
| Chapter
13. |
Steam Strippers (Source of Latent Heat of Vaporization) |
| Chapter
14. |
Draw-Off Nozzle Hydraulics (Nozzle Cavitation Due to Lack of Hydrostatic Head) |
| Chapter
15. |
Pumparounds and Tower Heat Flows (Closing the Tower Enthalpy Balance) |
| Chapter
16. |
Condensers and Tower Pressure Control (Hot-Vapor Bypass: Flooded Condenser Control) |
| Chapter
17. |
Air Coolers (Fin-Fan Coolers) |
| Chapter 18. |
Deaerators and Steam Systems (Generating Steam in Boilers and BFW Preparation) |
| Chapter 19. |
Vacuum Systems: Steam Jet Ejectors (Steam Jet Ejectors) |
| Chapter 20. |
Steam Turbines (Use of Horsepower Valves and Correct Speed Control) |
| Chapter 21. |
Surface Condensers (The Condensing Steam Turbine) |
| Chapter 22. |
Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers (Heat-Transfer Fouling Resistance) |
| Chapter 23. |
Heat Exchanger Innovations |
| Chapter 24. |
Fired Heaters: Fire-and Flue-Gas Side (Draft and Afterburn; Optimizing Excess Air) |
| Chapter 25. |
Fired Heaters: Process Side (Coking Furnace Tubes and Tube Failures) |
| Chapter 26. |
Refrigeration Systems (An Introduction to Centrifugal Compressors) |
| Chapter 27. |
Cooling Water Systems |
| Chapter 28. |
Catalytic Effects - Equilibrium and Kinetics |
| Chapter 29. |
Centrifugal Pumps: Fundamentals of Operation (Head, Flow, and Pressure) |
| Chapter 30. |
Centrifugal Pumps: Driver Limits (Electric Motors and Steam Turbines) |
| Chapter 31. |
Centrifugal Pumps: Suction Pressure Limits (Cavitation and Net Positive Suction Head) |
| Chapter 32. |
Control Valves |
| Chapter 33. |
Separators: Vapor-Hydrocarbon-Water (Liquid Settling Rates) |
| Chapter 34. |
Gas Compression: The Basic Idea (The Second Law of Thermodynamics Made Easy) |
| Chapter 35. |
Centrifugal Compressors and Surge (Overamping the Motor Driver) |
| Chapter 36. |
Reciprocating Compressors (The Carnot Cycle; Use of Indicator Card) |
| Chapter 37. |
Compressor Efficiency (Effect on Driver Load) |
| Chapter 38. |
Safety Concerns (Relief Valves, Corrosion, and Safety Trips) |
| Chapter 39. |
Corrosion: Process Units |
| Chapter 40. |
Fluid Flow in Pipes (Basic Ideas to Evaluate Newtonian and Non-Newtonian Flow)
|
| Chapter 41. |
Super-Fractionation Separation Stage |
| Chapter 42. |
Computer Modeling and Control |
| Chapter 43. |
Field Troubleshooting Process Problems |
