Author: J. Edward Pope
Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
Keywords: engineers, mechanical, thumb, rules
Number of Pages: 406
Published: 1996-12-23
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 0884157903
ISBN-13: 9780884157908

Save time with this collection of straightforward, common-sense techniques that provide quick, accurate solutions to your engineering problems. Rules of Thumb for Mechanical Engineers assembles hundreds of shortcuts, calculations, practical "how-to" methods, and concise background reviews into one convenient volume. Whether you’re concerned with design, selection, or performance, you’ll find fast, accuarate answers here - all without wading through pages of theory. Experts from all engineering disciplines packed this book’s sixteen chapters with design criteria and practical

Author: RICH GILDERSLEEVE
Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
Keywords: outscore, competition, benchmarks, analysis, business, financial, winning
Number of Pages: 334
Published: 1999-08
List price: $78.95
ISBN-10: 0884158985
ISBN-13: 9780884158981

Today’s business environment is a competition, and business managers need the right game plan if they want to win. Successful businesses do a lot of the same things well. They track inventories, expenses, growth, break-even units, margins, employee turnover, compensation plans, return on training, sales, earnings per employee, and a host of other statistics. But to win in business, managers need to do more than track these benchmarks. They need to improve results.Winning Business provides the benchmarks business managers should track. It shows managers how to calculate each benchmark, AN

Author: Bert Moniz
Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
Keywords: mix, ups, chemical, engineering, materials, plant, guide, preventing, process, pocket
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 2000-03-23
List price: $55.95
ISBN-10: 0884153444
ISBN-13: 9780884153443

This handy pocket guide condenses vital information into a simple format that explains how to prevent costly materials mix-ups that result from a deficiency in the supply chain. Using easy-to-read, straightforward language, it outlines effective methods of specifying, procuring, receiving and verifying critical materials. Pocket Guide to Preventing Process Plant Materials Mix-ups illustrates how to test and identify materials and provides what you need to know to choose between the various production methods.

Author: Trevor Kletz
Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
Keywords: error, human, control, computer
Number of Pages: 132
Published: 1995-10-02
List price: $76.95
ISBN-10: 0884152693
ISBN-13: 9780884152699

Trevor Kletz takes you through a range of incidents and accidents which occurred on computer-controlled plants and equipment.

Author: John Carroll
Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
Keywords: guide, engineers, second, hydrates, gas, natural
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2009-07-24
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0750684909
ISBN-13: 9780750684903

The petroleum industry spends millions of dollars every year to combat the formation of hydrates - the solid, crystalline compounds that form from water and small molecules - that cause problems by plugging transmission lines and damaging equipment. They are a problem in the production, transmission and processing of natural gas and it is even possible for them to form in the reservoir itself if the conditions are favorable. Natural Gas Hydrates is written for the field engineer working in the natural gas industry, This book explains how, when and where hydrates form, while providing the knowl

Author: Peter Smith
Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
Keywords: guide, materials, piping
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2005-01-05
List price: $90.95
ISBN-10: 0750677430
ISBN-13: 9780750677431

The only book of its kind on the market, this book is the companion to our Valve Selection Handbook, by the same author. Together, these two books form the most comprehensive work on piping and valves ever written for the process industries. This book covers the entire piping process, including the selection of piping materials according to the job, the application of the materials and fitting, trouble-shooting techniques for corrosion control, inspections for OSHA regulations, and even the warehousing, distributing, and ordering of materials. There are books on materials, fitting, OSHA regula

Author: Ernest E. Ludwig
Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
Keywords: plants, volume, third, petrochemical, chemical, process, design, applied
Number of Pages: 486
Published: 1997-12-08
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0884151018
ISBN-13: 9780884151012

This latest edition covers the technical performance and mechanical details of converting the chemical and petrochemical process into appropriate hardware for distillation and packed towers. It incorporates recent advances and major innovations in distillation contacting devices and features new generations of packing. In addition, this new edition reflects the significant progress that has been made in process design techniques in recent years. Volume 2’s example calculation techniques guide in the preparation of preliminary and final rating designs. In some instances, the book includes