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About the Book

An Applied Guide to Process and Plant Design, 1st edition, is a guide to process plant design for both students and professional engineers. The book covers plant layout and the use of spreadsheet programs and key drawings produced by professional engineers as aids to design; subjects that are usually learned on the job rather than in education. You will learn how to produce smarter plant design through the use of computer tools, including Excel and AutoCAD, “What If Analysis, statistical tools, and Visual Basic for more complex problems. The book also includes a wealth of selection tables, covering the key aspects of professional plant design which engineering students and early-career engineers tend to find most challenging.

About the Author

Sean Moran

I have been designing, troubleshooting and commissioning process plants since 1991. This is the area I write about.

I write the first draft of my books quickly, straight off the top of my head, based on my personal experience. I then have the draft reviewed in parts by large numbers of other practicing engineers to ensure that it is complete, current and correct.

I then review the reviews, and the sources they suggest, amend and add to the text and then start to bring the text together into a unified whole. Repeated review, rewriting, refining and proof reading takes up far more time than the initial writing stage.

My books are therefore based largely on my own experience and that of the hundreds of other practising engineers who contribute to and review the texts. They are intended to assist others with the process of making engineering education fit for purpose, and to show those wishing to become engineers what practicing engineers think engineering is really about.