Since the cnrliw "T1,sit,6 de Chimie

Minerale was puhlished in 1931-34, it is

felt that more references to the litcrsture
of rcecnt years shordd appear than do.
Tho bibliographies a l ~ o indicate that
rather extonsivu use of ahstrscting journals
has been mxdc RS S O I I P C ~ B . Only 146
periodical t,itlcs appmr ns primary sources.
8. K R U X M
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PROJECT ENGINEERING OF PROCESS

PLANTS
H.F. Rose, Associate Professor of Cherni-
cal Engineering, University of Texas, and
M. H. Barrow, Project Engineer for the
Foster Wheeler Corporation. John Wiley
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&Sons. Inc.. New York. 1957. xii 692 +

pp. 155 figs. 15 X 23.5 cm. $14.25.
Textbook edition, $12.
"THE dcsign and erection of a process
ulant could never be romdet,ed solelv
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engineers, ehemist,s, and sperinlistx from

many other fields. This comhined effort
must be dirrct,ed by a. fiingle individual. . .
the project engineer." This text has
heen written by two men who have had
broad experience as project engineers
for ~ ~ r o ~ e s ~ l s n t s - p e t r o l e uchemical,
m,
and the like. Thev have divided the
book into the four major divisions of
work encountered in thp project engineer-
ing of a new plant. These are (1) Major
Steps in I'lant Design, (2) Bu~inessand
Legal Proccduren, (3) Details of Zngineer-
ing Dcsign and Fquipmcnt Selection,
and (4) Constr~ictionsof the Plant. I t
is obvious that thp project engincer must,
have a hhresdth of training and experience.
Individual chapter8 in Part 1 list the
major ~ t e p sin plant design and enu-
merate items of information that must be
secured so that the design will he sound.
These steps deal with plant location,
preliminary data for construction projects,
process engineering, plan diagrams, plot
plans, ~ehedulingthe project, and engi-
neering design and dmfting. The chemical
engineering student in ~ c h a a lmay have
been exposed to x certain m m m t of proc-
ens engineering, that is, the dcvelop-
ment, evaluation and design of a chemical
process. But fieldom has he seen the
larger picture of constructing the operating
chemicsl plant. Ra8e and Barrow give
him this broader picture.
The businea~and legal procedrm given
in Part 2 are nsually out,side of student,
training unless he has taken hnsiness
courses. Those discussed hprr are pro-
curement operations, officc procedure,
and contrnrts and contractors. The
student learns that letter writing turns
out to be one of thr big johs of the engineer,
and here are given examples of intrr-office
and outside carrrspondence.
The at,udent will fed more a t home in
Part 3 on design and equipment, ~clection,
because his eoume in unit operations has
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given him the fundamental equations for
such designs. Other courses in civil,
electrical, and meehsnieal engineering
have propitred the student for the struc-
tural part of construction. The individual
chapters give practical suggestions, short-
cut methods, and optimum size formulas.
These chapters cover vessels, heat ex-
changers, process pumps, compressors and
vacuum pumps, motors and turbines,
other proresa equipment, piping design,
thermal insulation, process instnlmentn,
plant utilities, foundations, structures
and buildings, and finally, safety in
plant designs.
The final Part 4 is a single chapter on
construction, which shows how the pmj-
ect engineer must work with the con-
struction superintendent to completo the
plant in tho scheduled time.
The engineering ~ t u d e n t , no matter
what his branch of specialization may be,
who desires to enter the design and con-
f i t ~ c t i o nphases of industry should study
this hook. It is based on a. wealth of
practical experience of the authors, who
have presented it exoellently.
K E N N E T H I. KOBE
Cmvsnstrr or T r x r ~
~ U B T I N .T E X A ~

RECORDS AND RESEARCH I N ENGI-

NEERING AND INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE
I. Edwin Holstrom, Department of Nat-
ural Sciences, UNESCO. Third edition.
Chapman and Hall, Ltd., London, England,
1956. xii +
491 pp. 15 figs. 1 5 X
22 cm. 60s.
IT IS difficult to imagine the person for
whom this whole hook was written.
Rather, it is three books, for three different
audiences, with equal space given to each
topic.
The first third is ooncerned with a gen-
eral survey of physical science and
technology, and is designed for the neu;
comer to research. I t is larded with
quotations from other hooks devoted to
the same topic, and seems t o me the
weakest of the three parts.
The middle one-third consists of three
chapters on orgsnimtians oonnected with
scientific research and development. They
cover Britain, other countries, and inter-
national organizations. There is s, great
deal of accurate information here not avail-
able elsewhere, and it reflects the author's
wide experience a t UNESCO and other
places in t,his area. The United States is
covered in about 12 pages, and THIS
JOURNAI. is mentioned.
The final pert is devoted to what has
came to be called documentation, and
again reflects the author's central position
in this work. This nould make a good
cwrent survey of documentation for any-
one.
The author mentions meeting engineers
who have not h e a d of the Engineering
Indez; I think this is because it is not
used or even mentioned in schools.
In this part them is also considerable
crossreference to another book by the
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