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Pressure Vessel Field Manual Reviewed by Hargrave’s Kachelhofer

Pressure Vessels Field Manual: Common Operating Problems and Practical Solutions. By Maurice Stewart and Oran T. Lewis. Gulf Professional Publishing, 2 Greenway Plaza, Suite 1020, Houston, TX 77046. Web: gulfpub.com. 2013. 498 pages. $79.95. Reviewed by Keith Kachelhofer, Hargrave Engineers…

Fluid dynamics book reviewed by TMTS’ McGowan

Fluid Dynamics and Scale-up in Process Engineering: Theory and Logic in Practice. By Frederick A. Zenz. Analogies in Matters of Science (AIMS), P.O. Box 49, Cold Spring, NY 10516. Web: pemmcorp.com. 2014. 560 pages. $199.99. Reviewed by Thomas McGowan, TMTS…

Recently published books for September 2013

Materials in Mechanical Extremes: Fundamentals and Applications. By Neil Bourne. Cambridge University Press, 32 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10013. Web: cambridge.org. 2013. 539 pages. $155.00.         Experimental Methods and Instrumentation for Chemical Engineers. By…

Recently published books for July 2013

Distillation Design and Control Using Aspen Simulation. 2nd ed. By William Luyben. John Wiley & Sons Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030. Web: wiley.com. 2013. 489 pages. $130.00. Engineering Material 2: An Introduction to Microstructures and Processing. 4th ed.…

Seeking input on distillation education, and more June Letters

Seeking input on distillation education Right now, distillation engineers are extremely busy — globally, and especially in the U.S. The AIChE Distillation Symposium (May, San Antonio, Tex.) that was organized by Henry Kister and Mike Pritchett had an amazing number…

Process Control text reviewed by Emerson’s White

Fundamentals of Automatic Process Control. By Utpal Chaudhuri and Uttam Chaudhuri. CRC Press Inc., Taylor & Francis Group. 6000 Broken Sound Parkway, #300, Boca Raton, FL 33487. Web: crcpress.com. 2012. 303 pages. $139.95. Reviewed by Douglas White, Emerson Process Management,…

Professional Bureaucracy

Bob Katin, chairman of the California Government Relations Committee of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and president of the California Legislative Council of Professional Engineers (CLCPE), is a persistent man. For more than 20 years he has fought…

Bookshelf

Machinery Failure Analysis and Troubleshooting: Practical Machinery Management for Process Plants. 4th ed. By Fred Geitner and Heinz Bloch. Elsevier Ltd., The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, U.K.. Web: elsevier.com. 2012. 743 pages. $139.95.   Thermal Methods of…

Opportunities for Recent Grads

There was genuine excitement at the November 14 and 15 ChemInnovations event held in New Orleans. This was especially true at the Plant Managers Roundtable that was moderated by Rebekkah Marshall. On stage with Rebekkah were Jim Armstrong of Rhodia,…

Recently published books: January 2013

Sustainable Energy Management. By Mirjana Golusin, Stevan Popov and Sinasa Dodic. Elsevier Inc., 225 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA. 02451. Web: elsevier.com. 2013. 436 pages. $79.95. Chemical Process Equipment: Selection and Design, 3rd ed. By James Couper, W. Roy Penney and…