PUBLICATIONS (Dilip K. Das, P.E., FAIChE)

 

Dilip Das has been lucubrating many scholarly papers in a plethora of  journals, DIERS meetings and in the form of Books. He is well known for the eclectic condensation of his knowledge among his peers and superiors. The three books co-authored with Dr. R.K. Prabhudesai in the Professional Engineering examination area are::

1. "Chemical Engineering License Review", Kaplan Education

2. "Chemical Engineering License Problems and Solutions", Kaplan Education

3. "EIT Chemical Review", Kaplan Education

Other Publications:

  • “Analog Studies of Non-linear Processes”, Graduate thesis, University of Washington. (1971)
  • “Chemical Engineering for Professional Engineers' Examinations”, McGraw-Hill. ISBN# 0-07-050640-X
  • “Chemical Engineering License Review”, Engineering Press, San Jose, CA, 1996. ISBN# 1-57645-000-7
  • “Chemical Engineering License Problems and Solutions”, Engineering Press, San Jose, CA, 1996, ISBN# 1-57645-037-6
  • “EIT Chemical Review”, Engineering Press, San Jose, CA, 1996. ISBN# 1-57645-023-6
  • Dip Pipe Apparatus – A Fail-Safe Non-Return Tube, US Patent # 5236013 (1993)
  • “Allowing for Process Upset Conditions in Piping System Design”, Plant Engineering, March 2, 1978
  • “Design of Thermosiphon Reboiler by Personal Computer”, International Conference, Calcutta, India (1987)
  • “Sizing Relief Devices in Runaway Reactions”, AIChE Environmental Conference, Baton Rouge (1995)
  • “Good Engineering Practice of Instrumentation for A Relief Valve and Rupture Disk Combination”, Spring DIERS Meeting, 1999
  • “Quantitative and Qualitative Method of Determining Flow Regime”, Spring DIERS Meeting, 2000
  • “Comparison of Omega Method & SuperChemsTM in Relief Sizing Involving Vertical Down Flow Pipe”, Fall DIERS Group Meeting, Boston, 2000
  • “Estimation of Physical Properties of Non-standard Compounds Using SuperChemsTM”, Fall International DIERS Group Meeting, Boston, 2000
  • “SuperChemsTM How To: Adding A Compound to Database”, Spring DIERS Group Meeting, 2001
  • “A Comparison between NFPA 68/69 In terms of Design Pressure”, Spring DIERS Meeting, 2001
  • “In Case of Fire, Break Assumptions”, Chemical Engineering, February, 2004
  • “A Heuristic Approach of Calculating Spray Water Flux Needed to Avert Fire Induced Runaway Reactions”, Third International Symposium on Runaway Reactions and Pressure Relief Design, Cincinnati, OH, 2005
  • “A Heuristic Approach of Calculating Spray Water Flux Needed to Avert Fire Induced Runaway Reactions”, Process Safety Progress, Volume 25, No. 3, September 2006.
  • Electrostatic hazards in pumping non-conductive fluid in lined pipe, DUG Fall Meeting, 2008
  • How to set design pressure and temperature of equipment from pressure safety considerations DIERS User Group Meeting, Spring, 2009
  • Scrubber Design – Guidelines for Pressure Relief and Effluent Handling System, 2nd edition, DIERS (CCPS), 2010
  • Emergency Vent Sizing for Reactive Materials for Chapter 3.5 Outlines-Guidelines for Pressure Relief and Effluent Handling System, 2nd edition, DIERS Fall meeting (2010), Reno, NV
  • A Case of Mistaken Interpretation of Calorimetric Data and How to Avoid It, DIERS Spring Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada (April, 2013)
  • The Art and Science of Simulating a Runaway Reaction Scenario without Experimentally Developed Calorimetric Data DIERS Spring Meeting (2014)
  • Overpressure Protection by System Design, DIERS Fall Meeting (2014), Global Congress on Process Safety, Spring (2015)
  • Relief Sizing for Reactive Materials: DIERS BASIC COURSE outlines, DIERS Fall Meeting (2015)
  • Introduction to ARC 254 VariPhi NETZSCH and Determination of Kinetics Parameters, DIERS Spring Meeting (2016)
  • Introduction to NFPA 68 & 69: Explosion Protection by Deflagration Venting and Containment, DIERS Spring Meeting (2016)
  • The Physics and Metaphysics of the Sensitivity of the Calorimetric Instruments and Human Senses, DIERS Fall Meeting, October 26, 2016
  • Handling Slurry in Emergency Relief System (ERS) Design, DIERS Spring Meeting, 2017
  • The Physics and Metaphysics of the Sensitivity of the Calorimetric Instruments and Human Senses, Wiley Interscience(2017)
  • Streamlining ERS Design for Reactive Material, DIERS Spring Meeting, 2018
  • The Contingencies of Distillation Column for ERS Design, DIERS Spring , Karlsruhe, Germany,(2019)
  • Phase Separation in Effluent Handling: Introduction to its Impact in Effluent Handling Cost, DIERS Fall Meeting(2019)
  • Understanding MAWP and its Relationship with Design Pressure and Design of Vessel at High Pressure, DIERS Fall (2020)
  • The Art and Science of Sizing Fusible Plugs to Protect the Jacket Side of Jacketed Vessel During an External Fire Exposure, DIERS Spring (2021)
  • Nuances on Rupture Disks, DIERS Fall (2021)
  • An Intuitive Enquiry into the Basics of Isoconversional Chemical Kinetics, DIERS Spring, (2022)
  • Improvements and Drawbacks of ASME XIII over ASME VIII UG-140, DIERS Fall, (2022),
  • Epistemology of Joule-Thomson Effect DIERS Spring Meeting (2024)
  • An introduction to von Mises Stress DIERS Fall Meeting (2024)

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