Process Equipment Design
In this course, students will learn the principles behind the design of process equipment such as reactors, distillation columns, and heat exchangers. The course covers materials selection, structural design, and safety considerations. By the end, students will have the ability to design process equipment for efficient chemical manufacturing.
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- Pressure Drop in Pipes and Pipe Fittings
- Pipe Wall Thickness, Pipe Size Selection, and Nominal Pipe Size (NPS)
- Control Valves Sizing
- Heuristics in Piping Design
- Pump Theory
- Criteria for Pumps Selection
- Blowers, Fans, and Compressors
- Criteria for Compressors Selection
- Heuristics in Pump, and Compressor Design
- Ternary Diagram
- Solvent Selection
- Calculation of Stage Requirements
- Countercurrent Operation
- Equipment for Extraction
- Condensers
- Reboilers
- Evaporators
- Double Pipe Heat Exchangers
- Fired Heaters
- Heuristics in Heat Exchangers Design
- Vapor-Liquid Equilibria
- Single-stage Flash Calculations
- Binary Distillation (McCabe-Thiele Method)
- Batch Distillation
- Multicomponent Separation (Fenske-Underwood-Gilliland Method)
- Gas Absorption and Stripping Process
- Criteria for Selection of Separation Methods
- Tray Towers Design
- Packed Towers Design
- Efficiencies of Trays and Packing
- Condenser and Reboiler Load
- Distillation Towers Sequencing
- Heuristics in Separation Towers Design
- Pressure Vessels Code and Standards
- Design Pressure and Temperature
- Materials Selection
- Maximum Allowable Stress and Welding-Joint Efficiency
- Corrosion Allowance
- Design of Vessels under Internal Pressure (Shell Thickness and Selection of Head and Closure)
- Gas-Gas Separation - Adsorption
- Gas-Liquid Separators - Horizontal and Vertical Separators
- Liquid-Liquid Separators - Decanters
- Humidity and Psychrometric Chart
- Rate of Drying
- Classification and General Characteristics of Dryers
- Batch Dryers
- Continous Tray and Conveyor Belt Dryers
- Rotary Cylindrical Dryers
- Cooling Towers
- A Basic Stirred Tank Design (Geometry and Impellers)
- Vessel Flow Patterns
- Agitator Power Requirements
- Pipeline Mixers Design
- Slurry Transport
- Pneumatic Conveying
- Mechanical Conveyors and Elevators
- Chutes
- Solids Feeders
References:
- Towler, G. & Sinnott, R. (2013). Chemical Engineering Design: Principles, Practice, and Economics of Plant and Process Design (2nd ed.). Butterworth-Heinemann.
- Couper, J. R., Penney, W. R., Fair, J. R., & Walas, S. M. (2012). Chemical Process Equipment: Selection and Design (3rd ed.). Butterworth-Heinemann.
- Green, D. W. & Perry, R.H. (2008). Perry’s Chemical Engineering Handbook (8th ed.). McGraw-Hill.