This book provides a comprehensive look at industrial compressors. Readers can find a great deal of information based on long industrial experience, a clear and well-founded approach to real-gas handling, and solutions to many practical problems. Process Centrifugal Compressors supplies engineering contractors and users of industrial compressors better insight into the 'how' and 'why' of different design features, thus providing a more firmer basis for dealings with manufacturers. It reveals the limitations and requirements of practical applications and economics by opening a window on the day-by-day design practice. Combining a mathematical approach with practical experience and many examples, tt fills the gap between more academic textbooks and volumes offering encyclopaedic descriptions of industrial compressors.