Project Engineering Primer for Chemical Engineers

ISBN-13: 9789811906626 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 230 str.

Sampa Chakrabarti

Opis

This book discusses financial, managerial and engineering aspects associated with project engineering. The book is a text/reference book on courses related to project engineering for undergraduate students of Chemical Engineering programmes. The author has utilized her decade-long professional experience with reputed project consultancy organizations and her academic experience in writing this book. The background of project engineering is described with special emphasis on its interdisciplinary nature. Project management techniques are discussed with the help of worked-out examples. It includes multiple choice questions and information regarding relevant courses in different institutes. The book is useful for undergraduate degree and diploma students as well as for fresh graduate engineering trainees in various process consulting organizations.

Spis treści

Introduction.- Pre-Project Work.- Basic Engineering.- Detailed Engineering.- Financial Aspects of Project Engineering.- Management Aspects of Project Engineering.

O autorze

Dr. Sampa Chakrabarti is Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Calcutta, India, Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, India, (IEI) and Life Member of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE). She teaches separation processes, project engineering and environmental science and engineering. Her research interest includes pollution control by advanced oxidation, nanoparticles and smart surfaces. She worked as Visiting Researcher in the State University of New York at Buffalo and Washington University in St. Louis, USA. She holds two Indian patents on ceramic pigment and on solar reactor. She published two books—one reference book on solar photocatalysis (jointly published by TERI, India, and CRC press) and another text book for postgraduate level on solid waste (with TERI, India). She had published more than 85 papers and chapters in reputed international journals, edited books and conferences. In addition, she has published books and popular science articles in Bengali for spreading scientific awareness among common people.

She has 10 years of professional experience in project engineering with reputed engineering organizations of India like Development Consultants Pvt Ltd, Kolkata, and Batliboi and Company, Mumbai, in addition to her teaching and research experience in the University of Calcutta.