Product and Process Design Principles: Synthesis, Analysis and Design

I was a student of Dr. Seider at the University of Pennsylvania in the 1970's. Reviewing the table of contents for this book, I recognize a lot of the material from courses I took with Dr. Seider at Penn. We studied material in Dr. Seider's class that was later published. Dr. Seider is a very knowledgeable professor of chemical engineering. He combined the academic aspects with the industrial field experience, and showed his students how to use the numerical methods to solve chemical engineeing problems. The authors have used some of the new technologies and software packages to help undergraduate students master this material quicker than we could with the computation tools available in 1974. Sample code is available in the textbook that allows a student to concentrate on the process aspects of plant design, and not spend time writing and debugging computer code. My own career took me into areas outside of chemical process design. But the systematic, analytical methods taught by Dr. Seider still help me in resolving power plant performance problems. C. W. Martin Senior Engineer James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant

This book is really good for process engineers. I don't know if there is a different edition of the one I have but there's little about CHEMCAD, the book is too focused on other simulation softwares and if you don't have one of those; solving some proposed problems gets really difficult and frustating. Packed with heuriustics on process and equipment design.Excellent choice!

Covering the main topics in chemical process synthesis an design, this book present a broad view of the state of the art techniques and methods to achieve an optimum design.With this work, Dr. Seider, et al, have given an invaluable contribution to the teaching of this field, presenting a logical an principle based approach for the "basic plant design", in contrast to the experience based traditional view.Focusing on the extensive use of commercial process simulators, the book presents an overview of the conceptual basis of process simulation and optimization,but not its mathematical detail, giving the engineer the opportunity to focus on the process instead of focus on the mathematical and computational problem.

The ultimate book for process synthesis, that combines the synthesis and design of chemical processes.