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The idea for this book was conceived while I was on a Ford Foundation residency at the Dow Chemical Company in Midland, Michigan. I was assigned to the process engineering department, where I was exposed to all areas of process engineering, project engineering, and plant construction. My previous industrial experiences had been in pilot plants and research laboratories. Much to my surprise, I found that what was emphasized in the standard plant design texts was only a part of preliminary process design. Such areas as writing a scope, site selection, equipment lists, layout, instrumentation, and cost engineering were quickly glossed over. After I returned to Ohio University and began to teach plant design, I decided a book that emphasized preliminary process engineering was needed. This is the result. It takes the reader step by step through the process engineering of a chemical plant, from the choosing of a site through the preliminary economic evaluation.