Excerpt from A Manual of Chemical Plant Twenty years work amongst the literature of chemical technology has resulted in the accumulation by the author of a mass of data on chemical plant the value of which has been proved by constant testing on the part of chemical engineers and chemical manufacturers in the carrying out of process operations. Recently the author has been engaged in the arrangement of this matter, and a consideration of its varied nature, the carefulness of its selection, and the extent of its applications has led him to believe that a manual embodying such data would be found of practical value by technical chemists generally, and that the present juncture, promising as it does to be the beginning of a new era of development in the British chemical industry, is timely for the publication of such a manual. It is not the intention of the author to write a treatise on Chemical Engineering - that has already been done by his late respected chief, Mr. George E. Davis, on whose staff he had the advantage and privilege of serving for some fifteen years. Rather is it his object to place in the hands of the chemical engineer, the chemical manufacturer, the chemical works manager, and the student of chemical technology the results of a long and patient examination of the claims of almost every new piece of chemical plant which has been introduced during the last quarter of a century. To this he has added an exhaustive analysis of the patent literature of the same period, and he believes that the resultant work will form an almost indispensable companion volume to the handbooks of chemical engineering and industrial chemistry already published. Moreover, it is hoped that the manual will also be found of service by works managers in the many industries where chemical plant is more or less employed for the production of chemicals necessary for process operations, for the recovery of by-products from such operations, or for the working up of the by-products after recovery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.