Fortunately, Process design, and more generally, process system engineering, has undergone a dramatic change over the last 20 years. During this period many new fundamental and significant advances have taken place. The more or less ad hoc analysis of flowsheets has been replaced by systematic numerical solution techniques that are now widely implemented in computer modeling systems and simulation packages for both preliminary and detailed design.

The largely arbitrary selection of parameters in process flowsheets has been replaced by the use of modern optimization strategies. The intuitive devolopment of structures of process flowsheets has been largely replaced by systematic synthesis methods, both in the form of conceptual insights and in the form of advanced discrete optimization techniques.

1. Introduction to Process Design
2. Overview of Flowsheet Synthesis
3. Mass and Energy Balances
4. Equipment Sizing and Costing
5. Economic Evaluation
6. Design and Scheduling of Batch Processes
7. Unit Equation Models
8. General Concepts of Simulation for Process Design
9. Process Flowsheet Optimization
10. Heat and power Integration
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