Process Design, Economics, and Project Engineering

The principal goal of this textbook is preparing process/chemical engineers for a wide variety of process-related jobs. It is also a reference resource for engineers working in the process and process design industries. The book assumes prerequisite knowledge of material and energy balances, heat transfer, fluid flow, and mass transfer.

Wayne Seames is a Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of North Dakota (UND), Grand Fork.. An Arizona native, Seames received his BS in Chemical Engineering at the University of Arizona, Tucson, in 1979. His 16-year industrial career included assignments as a process engineer, controls project engineer, and process control group leader. In 1992, he was assigned as project manager for plant automation systems, for the Ras Tanura Upgrade and Expansion project, one of the largest process control-related projects in the world. In 1995, Seames returned to Arizona where he earned his doctorate in Chemical Engineering in July 2000. He has planned and managed over 100 research projects during his academic career.
Amongst his teaching-related academic awards are: the 2018 UND Foundation/Lydia and Arthur Saiki Faculty Award for Individual Excellence in Teaching, the 2013 UND Faculty Scholar Award for Excellence in Scholarship, Teaching, and Service; the 2012 UND Faculty Spirit of Achievement Award; the 2011 UND Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor for sustained excellence as a tenured faculty member; and the 2006 "Professor of the Year" award from UND School of Engineering and Mines. He was elected a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2017 and is a named inventor on eight U.S. patents. Among his many research refereed publications are five documenting preliminary design and economic analyses of novel and emerging process technologies.