ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces a wide range of chemical reactors, heat exchangers, mass transfer devices, fluid flow equipment, material transportation and storage equipment, ancillary equipment and services, instrumentation and control, and process diagrams of importance in the chemical process industry (CPI) for process control and monitoring and for risk management purposes. Five illustrative examples and eight problems are presented that relate to chemical process equipment, process flow diagrams and environmental and health risk assessments and management.
