 Process Development: From the Initial Idea to the Chemical Production Plant
ISBN: 978-3-527-31089-0
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492 pages
May 2005
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1.1 The Goal of Industrial Research and Development.
1.2 The Production Structure of the Chemical Industry.
1.3 The Task of Process Development.
1.4 Creative Thinking.
2 The Chemical Production Plant and its Components.
2.1 The Catalyst.
2.2 The Reactor.
2.3 Product Processing (Thermal and Mechanical Separation Processes).
2.4 Pipelines, Pumps, and Compressors.
2.5 Energy Supply.
2.6 Product Supply and Storage.
2.7 Waste Disposal [Rothert 1992].
2.8 Measurement and Control Technology.
2.9 Plant Safety.
2.10 Materials Selection.
3 Process Data.
3.1 Chemical Data.
3.2 Mass Balance.
3.3 Physicochemical Data.
3.4 Processing.
3.5 Patenting and Licensing Situation.
3.6 Development Costs.
3.7 Location.
3.8 Market Situation.
3.9 Raw Materials.
3.10 Plant Capacity.
3.11 Waste-Disposal Situation.
3.12 End Product.
4 Course of Process Development.
4.1 Process Development as an Iterative Process.
4.2 Drawing up an Initial Version of the Process.
4.3. Checking the Individual Steps.
4.4 The Microplant: The Link between the Laboratory and the Pilot Plant.
4.5 Testing the Entire Process on a Small Scale.
5 Planning, Erection, and Start-Up of a Chemical Plant.
5.1 General Course of Project Execution.
5.2 Important Aspects of Project Execution.
5.3 Commissioning.
5.4 Start-Up.
6 Process Evaluation.
6.1 Preparation of Study Reports.
6.2 Return on Investment.
6.3 Economic Risk.
7 Trends in Process Development.
8 Appendix.
8.1 Mathematical formulas.
8.2 Constants.
8.3 List of elements with relative atomic masses bonding radius and melting and boiling points.
8.4 Conversion of various units to SI units.
8.5 Relationships between derived and base units.
8.6 Conversion of concentrations for binary mixtures of dissolved component A in solvent B.
8.7 van der Waals constants a and b and critical values for some gases.
8.8 Heat capacities of some substances and their temperature dependance.
8.9 Thermodynamic data of selected organic compounds.
8.10 Order of magnitude of the reaction enthalpy _RH for selected industrial reactions [Weissermel 1994].
8.11 Antoine parameters of selected organic compounds.
8.12 Properties of water.
8.13 Properties of dry air (molar mass: M= 28.966 g mol<sup>-1</sup>).
8.14 Dimensionless characteristic numbers.
8.15 Important German regulations for handling of substances.
8.16 Hazard and safety warnings.
8.17 The 25 largest companies of the world in 2000.
8.18 The 25 largest companies in Germany in 2000.
8.19 Surface analysis methods.
9 References.
Subject Index.
