Table of Contents

"Conversion to SI Units Bringing Costs up to Date Vacuum System Design, Estimations, Frank Caplan Vacuum System, Fundamentals, Gary R. Martin and Scott W. Golden Vacuum System Leakage, James L. Ryan and Daniel L. Roper Vacuum System, Leakage Coefficients, Jose Vicente Gomez Vacuum Systems, Gas Load Calculation, Edward B. Meyerson Vacuum Tower Performance Improvement, Henry Z. Kister, Rusty Rhoad, and Kimberly A. Hoyt Vacuum Tower, Ejector Systems, James R. Lines and Lance L. Frens Valve Cavitation, Minimizing, David Gardellin Valve Response Control, Improvement, Gregory C. McMillan Valve Sizing, Hans D. Baumann Valve Trays, Vapor Cross-Flow Channeling, Henry Z. Kister Valves, Guy E. Weismantel Valves, Capacity Under Sonic Flow, Frank Caplan Valves, Control, Efficiency, Dan Stedham Valves, Failsafe Actuation, Charles C. Kennedy Valves, Control, Topworks Selection, Bill Fitzgerald Valves, Feeder and Standpipes, for Packed Beds, Marcello Picciotti Valves, Hot Vapor Bypass, Adam Zanker Valves, Relief, Sizing, A. K. Coker Valves, Rotary, Specifying, Edward D. Pittman Valves, Safety-Relief, Sonic Flow, Janet K. Peters Valves, Safety, Steam or Gas Capacity, Adam Zanker Valves, Selection, Fred Hassebrock Vanadium and Vanadium Compounds, Materials Flow in the United States, Henry E. Hilliard Vanadium and Vanadium Compounds Supply/Demand Relationships, Henry E. Hilliard Vapor-Cloud Explosions, Surviving, Chawki A. Benteftifa and Charles Becht IV Vapor Depressuring Systems, Robert S. Sonti Vapor Dew Point of Acid Gases, V. Ganapathy Vapor Extraction of Volatile Organic Gasoline Compounds, Norman H. Parker Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium, Estimation, Harold J. Reed Vapor Pressure Estimation, Adam Zanker Vapor Pressure Estimation of Gasolines and Crude Oils Estimation, Adam Zanker Vapor Pressure of Hydrocarbons, Generalized Equation, M. Edalat, G. A. Mansoori, and R. B. Bozar-Jomehri Vapor Pressure of Organic Compounds, Ari Horvath Vapor Pressure and Volatility of Reformulated Gasoline, Thermodynamic Aspects, David Zudkevitch and A. K. S. Murthy Vapor Pressure of Water, Philip H. Pallady Vapor Recompression, Albert Meili and Alexander Stuecheli Vapor Recovery Units, Design, Improvement, Process Integration, Stephen G. Hall, Thomas P. Ognisty, and A. H. Northup Vapor Recovery Units, Upgrading, G. W. G. McDonald Variable Frequency Drives, David T. Parker and Darrell G. Carver Variable Speed Drives, James D. Johnson Variable Speed Drives, Electric Versus Hydraulic, Clarence J. Ceroke Variable-Speed Gas-Turbine Drives, Enzo Giacomelli, Fabrizio Bernardini, and Hubert Andree Variance, Analysis of, Robert E. Miller Vatavuk Air Pollution Control Cost Indexes (VAPCCI), William M. Vatavuk Velocity, Terminal in Settling, Estimation, Adam Zanker "

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