Process Industries Subject Guide


The Information and Library Service compiles occasional subject guides for engineers and students. The aim is to highlight sources of information available in the library and the Institution itself, along with some useful websites to take you further afield.

Other guides available:
Process Industries > Bulk Materials Handling | Food Engineering | Offshore Engineering | Oil, Gas and Chemical | Pharmaceuticals

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| Automobile | Combustion, Engines and Fuels | Construction and Building Services | Energy, Environment and Sustainability | Fluid Machinery | Management | Manufacturing | Mechatronics, Informatics and Control | Medical Engineering | Power Industries | Pressure Systems | Process Industries | Railway | Safety and Reliability | Structural Technology and Materials | Thermofluids | Tribology

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Locating Process Industries Information in the IMechE Library

The following is a list of key shelf numbers for the process industries subject area. If you are looking for a particular book please check the Library Catalogue .

Topic Shelf Number
Bulk solids handling 621.8673
Chemical engineering 660.2
Food engineering 664
Food processes 664.02
Natural gas 665.792
Petroleum production 622.38
Petroleum technology 665.5
Petroleum storage and transportation 665.54
Pipelines 621.8672
Process engineering 660.2
Process safety 660.2804
Process plant 660.28
Waste treatment and disposal 628.445
Waste treatment (industrial) 628.54
Wastewater treatment 628.16

Useful Books

Slurry Systems Handbook
(Abulnaga BE)
621.8672 ABU
Rules of thumb for chemical engineers
(Branan CR)
660 BRA (Oversize)
Process piping: the complete guide to ASME B31.3
(Brecht C)
660.283 BRE (Oversize)
Chemical process equipment: selection and design
(Couper JR)
660.283 COU
Design of simple and robust chemical process plants
(Koolen JLA)
660.284 KOO
Modern petroleum technology, vol 2 downstream
(Lucas AG)
665.5 LUC
Modern petroleum technology, vol 1 upstream
(Dawe RA)
665.5 LUC
Refining processes handbook
(Parkash S)
665.53 PAR
Perry's chemical engineers handbook
(Perry RH and Green DW)
660 PER
Handbook of food processing equipment
(Saravacos GD and Kostaropoulos A)
664.02 SAR
Wastewater engineering
(Tchobanoglous G, Burton F & Stensel HD)
628.16 TCH
Managing risk and reliability of process plants
(Tweeddale M)
660.2804 TWE
Handbook of industrial and hazardous wastes treatment
(Wang LK and Hung YT)
628.445 WAN
Waste treatment and disposal
(Williams PT)
628.445 WIL

E-books

The following titles are available via Knovel in the Virtual Library.

Pharmaceutical production - an engineering guide (Bennett B & Cole G, 2005)
Guidelines for safe handling of powders and bulk solids (Center for Chemical Process Safety, 2005)
Wiley Encyclopedia of food science and technology (Francis FJ, 2nd edition, 1999)
Advances in corrosion control and materials in oil and gas production
(Jackman PS & Smith LM, 1999)
Loss prevention in the process industries (Lees FP, 1996)
Hawley’s condensed chemical dictionary (Lewis RJ, 2002)
Process/industrial instruments and controls handbook (McMillan GK & Considine DM, 1999)
Handbook of chemical and environmental engineering calculations
(Reynolds JP, Jeris JS & Theodore L, 2002)
Environmental Engineering (Salvato JA, Nemerow NL & Agardy FJ, 2003)
Industrial Waste Treatment Handbook (Woodard & Curran Inc, 2006)

The following titles are available via Books24x7 in the Virtual Library.

Dry gas seals handbook, PennWell Corp, 2005
Flow induced vibration of power and process plant
Managing operations in offshore locations, 2007
Offshore ready: strategies to plan and profit
Pipeline design and construction: a practical approach, 2005
Pipeline operation and maintenance: a practical approach, 2005
Process piping: The complete guide to ASME B31

Recent IMechE process engineering conferences and seminars

Please visit Process Industries Papers and Presentations (Archive)

Useful Journals

The Library has an extensive collection of journals including:

Aufbereitungs technik 1 year
Health and safety at work 1 year
Oil and gas journal 5 years
Petroleum review 1987-
Plant and works engineering 2004-
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers part E: journal of process mechanical engineering 1989-
Proceedings of the Institute of Refrigeration 1943-
Process engineering 1972-
The ROSPA occupational safety and health journal
Sulzer technical review 1920-
TCE: the chemical engineer 1986-
Transactions of the ASME: journal of pressure vessel technology 1880-
Works management 5 years

Please check the Library Catalogue to see if the Library subscribes to your required journal.

E-journals

The following electronic journals are available on the EBSCO Business Source database in the Virtual Library .

Chemical business
Chemical week
Food engineering
Food engineering international
Hazardous waste consultant
Modern bulk transporter
Natural gas
Natural gas transportation & distribution
Pipeline & gas journal
Pipeline & utilities construction
Process control & quality
Process engineering
Pharmaceutical development & technology
Plant engineering
Practice periodical of hazardous, toxic & radioactive waste management
Process control & quality
Process cooling & equipment

Databases

Please visit the Virtual Library page for information about the library's databases.

Websites

Please visit Process Industries Web Links

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