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Acknowledgments

RSG wishes to express his profound gratitude to his students for reading the chapters and checking the programs. Further, he wishes to thank his current and former graduate students, Ms. Aghasi, Ms. Bakhshi and Messrs. Jabbari, Ahmadi, Moshiri, Khodabendehlou for checking the chapters and programs. Special credits are also extended to Professor Jamal Chaouki from Polytechnique de Montreal for hosting RSG for his sabbatical leave upon the completion of the book beside the main activity planned for sababtical. AKC expresses his gratitude to Ahmed Mutawa, formerly of SASREF for developing the conversion table software for the book. Thank you, Ahmed.

Wherever it is required, permissions have been obtained to reproduce the works published by some organizations and companies. We acknowledge and thank the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the Institution of Chemical Engineers (U.K.), Chemical Engineering (Mc-Graw Hill), Oil & Gas Journal, Tubular Exchanger Manufacturers’ Association, American Petroleum Institute, John Wiley & Sons, Nutter Engineering, and many other organizations that provided materials for this book. We express our gratitude to Honeywell Process Solutions for granting permission to incorporate the use of UniSim Design software simulation and many suites of software programs in the book.

We wish to express our thanks to the Wiley-Scrivener team: Kris Hackerott- Graphics Designer, Bryan Aubrey – Copy editor, Myrna Ting – Typesetter and her colleagues. We are truly grateful for your professionalism, assistance and help in the production of this volume. Finally, very special thanks to Phil Carmical of Scrivener publishing company for his advice and helpful suggestions during the production of this volume.

Finally, we should emphasize that process design is a creative, dynamic and challenging activity and for this reason, the design books like this one need continuous improvement with current digitalization outlook and abundant access to computation resources. We would appreciate and welcome any comments, suggestions, or feedback that you may have on this volume.

A. Kayode Coker (www.akctechnology.com)

A. K.C. TECHNOLOGY, U.K.

Rahmat Sotudeh-Gharebagh (sotudeh@ut.ac.ir) College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran