Overview
- Provides detail on minimizing hazards during plant operation and cost of maintenanceproduction
- Explains efficient process control
- Explains efficient environmental pollution control
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This book provides practical guidelines to chemical engineers, plant managers, maintenance engineers, and senior managements in modern chemical processing facilities. It provides guidelines to the readers for operational competencies such as hazard identification (HAZID), hazard operability studies (HAZOP), avoiding mistakes in plant facilities to ensure safety, compliance with various statutory rules and regulations; and management of human resources through improved working conditions, provision of safety equipment etc. It further presents technical information on pressure vessels, design of pi** and selection of pum** systems, materials for construction and lining of process units operating at high temperature and corrosive conditions, and criteria for selection of different methods for heating of process units. In addition to its application to existing operations, the book includes information on expansion, diversification, and modernization of facilities and guidelines for revival of old and idle plants. Finally, the authors discuss various safety issues, controlling cost of production, and sustainability topics such as planning and implementing co-generation of steam and power, environmental pollution control for chemical plants and safe disposal of hazardous wastes.
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Keywords
- Management Functions in chemical industries
- HAZID,HAZOP and Ensuring safety
- Statutory permissions and compliance
- Pressure vessels in chemical industries
- Materials of Construction for process units
- Pi** Design and Pum** systems
- Reducing breakdowns in chemical plants
- Co-generation of Steam and Power
- Effluent treatment and Air Pollution Control
- Disposal of hazardous wastes from chemical plants
- Electrical Installations in chemical plants
Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Reviews
“This book is a well-structured approach to the chemical industry. It incorporates all the relevant information required to use as a guide towards preparing, commissioning and maintaining a chemical plant. … This is definitely a useful book to have on your shelf as a chemical engineer to reference from time to time. It will also help those who are new to the industry.” (Mahmud Juned, Johnson Matthey Technology Review, Vol. 67 (3), 2023)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Kiran Golwalkar is a consulting chemical engineer in private practice in India. He worked for many years for commissioning, operating, modernizing, and diversifying of chemical plants in India, Kenya, Thailand and Indonesia. He has also served as a visiting faculty member in chemical engineering Institutes at Mumbai, Nagpur, and Pune in India.
Dr. Rashmi Kumar is Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering (D J Sanghvi College of Engineering, Mumbai) and has a long teaching experience of about 25 years.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Practical Guidelines for the Chemical Industry
Book Subtitle: Operation, Processes, and Sustainability in Modern Facilities
Authors: Kiran R. Golwalkar, Rashmi Kumar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96581-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96580-8Published: 28 April 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96583-9Published: 29 April 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-96581-5Published: 27 April 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 297
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, Green Chemistry, Safety in Chemistry, Dangerous Goods