A Practical Guide to Physical and Chemical Principles and Calculations for Today‎'‎s Process Control Operators In Basic Principles and Calculations in Process Technology‎,‎ author T‎.‎ David Griffith walks process technologists through the basic principles that govern their operations‎,‎ helping them collaborate with chemical engineers to improve both safety and productivity‎.‎ He shows process operators how to go beyond memorizing rules and formulas to understand the underlying science and physical laws‎,‎ so they can accurately interpret anomalies and respond appropriately when exact rules or calculation methods don‎'‎t exist‎.‎ Using simple algebra and non‎-technical analogies‎,‎ Griffith explains each idea and technique without calculus‎.‎ He introduces each topic by explaining why it matters to process technologists and offers numerous examples that show how key principles are applied and calculations are performed‎.‎ For end‎-of‎-chapter problems‎,‎ he provides the solutions in plain‎-English discussions of how and why they work‎.‎ Chapter appendixes provide more advanced information for further exploration‎.‎ Basic Principles and Calculations in Process Technology is an indispensable‎,‎ practical resource for every process technologist who wants to know "what the numbers mean" so they can control their systems and processes more efficiently‎,‎ safely‎,‎ and reliably‎.‎ T‎.‎ David Griffith received his B‎.‎S‎.‎ in chemical engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and his Ph‎.‎D‎.‎ from the University of Wisconsin‎-Madison‎,‎ then top‎-ranked in the discipline‎.‎ After working in research on enhanced oil recovery ‎(‎EOR‎)‎‎,‎ he cofounded a small chemical company‎,‎ and later in his career he developed a record‎-setting Electronic Data Interchange ‎(‎EDI‎)‎ software package‎.‎ He currently instructs in the hydrocarbon processing industry‎.‎ Coverage includes * Preparing to solve problems by carefully organizing them and establishing consistent sets of measures * Calculating areas and volumes‎,‎ including complex objects and interpolation * Understanding Boyle‎'‎s Law‎,‎ Charles‎'‎s Law‎,‎ and the Ideal Gas Law * Predicting the behavior of gases under extreme conditions * Applying thermodynamic laws to calculate work and changes in gas enthalpy‎,‎ and to recognize operational problems * Explaining phase equilibria for distillation and fractionalization * Estimating chemical reaction speed to optimize control * Balancing material or energy as they cross system boundaries * Using material balance calculations to confirm quality control and prevent major problems * Calculating energy balances and using them to troubleshoot poor throughput * Understanding fluid flow‎,‎ including shear‎,‎ viscosity‎,‎ laminar and turbulent flows‎,‎ vectors‎,‎ and tensors * Characterizing the operation of devices that transport heat energy for heating or cooling * Analyzing mass transfer in separation processes for materials purification