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Fifteen prominent chemical engineers first met in New York more than 60 years

ago to plan a continuing literature for their rapidly growing profession. From

industry came such pioneer practitioners as Leo H. Baekeland, Arthur D. Little,

Charles L. Reese, John V. N. Dorr, M. C. Whitaker, and R. S. McBride. From

the universities came such eminent educators as William H. Walker, Alfred H.

White, D. D. Jackson, J. H. James, Warren K. Lewis, and Harry A. Curtis. H. C.

Parmelee, then editor ofChemical and Metallu~cal Engineering, served aschairman and was joined subsequently by S. D. Kirkpatrick as consulting editor.

After several meetings, this committee submitted its report to the

McGraw-Hill Book Company in September 1925. In the report were detailedspecifications for a correlated series of more than a dozen texts and reference

books which have since become the McGraw-Hill Series in Chemical Engineering

and which became the cornerstone of the chemical engineering curriculum.From this beginning there has evolved a series of texts surpassing by far

the scope and longevity envisioned by the founding Editorial Board. TheMcGraw-Hill Series in Chemical Engineering stands as a unique historical

record of the development of chemical engineering education and practice. In

the series one finds the milestones of the subjects evolution: industrial chemistry,

stoichiometry, unit operations and processes, thermodynamics, kinetics,

and transfer operations.Chemical engineering is a dynamic profession, and its literature continues

to evolve. McGraw-Hill, with its editor, B. J. Clark and consulting editors,

remains committed to a publishing policy that will serve, and indeed lead, theneeds of the chemical engineering profession during the years to come.

The SeriesBailey and Ollis: Biochemical Engineering FundamentalsBennett andMyers: Momentum, Heat, and Mass TransferBeveridge and Schechter: Optimization: Theory and PracticeBrudkey and Hershey: TransportPhenomena: A Unified ApproachCarberry: Chemical and Catalytic Reaction EngineeringConstantinides:Applied Numerical Methodr with Personal ComputersCoughanowr and Koppel:Process Systems Analysis and Control .

Douglas: Conceptual Design ofChemical ProcessesEdgar and Himmelblau: Optimization ofChemical ProcessesGates, Katzer, and Schuit: Chemistry ofCatalytic ProcessesHolland:Fundamentals ofMulticomponent DistillationHolland and Liapis: Computer MethodsforSolving Dynamic Separation ProblemsKatz andLee: Natural Gas Engineering: Production and StorageKing: Separation Processes

Lee: Fundamentals ofMicroelectronics Processing *Luybeo: Process Modeling, Simulation, and ControlforChemical EngineersMcCabe, Smith, J. C., and Harriott: Unit Operations ofChemical EngineeringMickley, Sherwood, and Reed:Applied Mathematics in Chemical Engineering

Nelson: Petroleum Refinery EngineeringPerry and Green (Editors): Chemical Engineers Handbook

Peters: Elementary Chemical EngineeringPeters and Timmerhaus:Plant Design and EconomicsforChemical EngineersReid, Prausoitz, and Rolling: The Properties ofGases and LiquidsSherwood, Pigford, and Wilke:Mass TransferSmith, B. D.:Design ofEfluilibrium Stage ProcessesSmith, J. M.: Chemical Engineering KineticsSmith, J. M., and Van Ness: Introduction to Chemical Engineering ThermodynamicsTreybal:Mass Transfer OperationsValle-Riestra:Project Evolution in the Chemical Process Industries Wei, Russell, and Swartzlander: The Structure ofthe Chemical Processing Industries


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PLANT DESIGN AND

ECONOMICS FOR

CHEMICAL ENGINEERSFourth EditionMax S. Peters

Klaus D. TimmerhausProfessorsofChemical Engineeri ng

UniversityofColorado

:I, !. J:., $McGraw-Hill, Inc.New York St. Louis San ijranciko Auckland Bogotfi Caracas Hamburg

Lisbon London Madrid Mexico Milan Montreal New Delhi ParisSan Juan SHo Paula Singapore Sydney Tokyo Toronto

PLANT DESIGN AND ECONOMICS FOR CHEMICAL ENGINEERSINTERNATIONAL EDITION 1991Exclusive rights by McGraw-Hill Book Co. - Singaporefor manufacture and export. This book cannot be reexportedfrom the countty to which it is consigned by McGraw-Hill.234567890CMOPMP95432Copyright 0 1991, 1980, 1968, 1958 by McGraw-Hill, Inc. Allrights reserved. Except as permitted under the United StatesCopyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may bereproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or storedin a data base or retrieval system, without the prior writtenpermission of the publisher.This book was set in Times Roman by Science Typographers. Inc.The editors were B.J. Clark and$hn M. Morriss;the production supervisor was Richard Ausburn.

The cover was designed by Carla BauerProject supervision was done by Science Typographers, Inc.Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataPeters, Max Stone, (date)Plantdesign and economics for chemical engineers/Max S. Peters.Klaus D. Timmerhaus.4th ed.P. cm.-(McGraw-Hill chemical engineering series)Includes bibliographical references.ISBN 0-07-04961371. Chemical plants--Design and construction. I. Timmerhaus,Klaus D. II. Title. III. Series.TP155.5P4 19916602Mc20 89-77497When ordering this title me ISBN 0-97-100871-3Printed in Singapore

ABOUTTHEAUTHORSMAX S. PETERS is currently Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering andDean Emeritus of Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He

received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemical engineering from the Pennsylvania

State University, worked for the Hercules Power Company and the TreyzChemical Company, and returned to Penn State for his Ph.D. Subsequently, he

joined the faculty of the University of Illinois, and later came to the University

of Colorado as Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science and

Professor of Chemical Engineering. He relinquished the position of Dean in


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1978 and became Emeritus in 1987.

Dr. Peters has served as President of the American Institute of Chemical

Engineers, as a member of the Board of Directors for the Commission on

Engineering Education, as Chairman of the Presidents Committee on the

National Medal of Science, and as Chairman of the Colorado Environmental

Commission. A Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Dr.

Peters is the recipient of the George Westinghouse Award of the AmericanSociety for Engineering Education, the Lamme Award of the ASEE, the Award

of Merit of the American Association of Cost Engineers, the Founders

Award of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and the W. K. Lewis

Award of the AIChE. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

KLAUS D. TIMMERHAUS is currently Professor of .Chemical Engineeringand Presidential Teaching Scholar at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He

received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering from the

University of Illinois. After serving as a process design engineer for the

California Research Corporation, Dr. Timmerhaus joined the faculty of

the University of Colorado, College of Engineering, Department of ChemicalEngineering. He was subsequently appointed Associate Dean of the College of

Engineering and Director of the Engineering Research Center. This was followed

by a term as Chairman of the Chemical Engineering Department. Thevii. . .VII1 ABOUT THE AUTHORS

authors extensive research publications have been primarily concerned with

cryogenics, energy, and heat and mass transfer, and he has edited 25 volumes of

Advances in Cryogenic Engineeringand co-edited

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