Problem Solving for Process Operators and Specialists

1 Initial Considerations 1

2 Limitations to Plant Problem Solving 9

3 Successful Plant Problem Solving 15

4 Examples of Plant Problem Solving 39

5 Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering for Process Operators 59

6 Development of Working Hypotheses 83

7 Application to Prime Movers 93

8 Application to Plate Processes 147

9 Application to Kinetically Limited Processes 167

10 Application to Unsteady State 197

11 Verifi cation of Process Instrumentation Data 219

12 Successful Plant Tests 241

13 Utilization of Manual Computation Techniques 261

14 Putting It All Together 281

15 A Final Note 315

Appendix: Conversion Factors 317

References 319

Index 321