Elements of Plant Design & Economics
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Elements of Plant Design & Economics Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Elements of Plant Design & Economics (subject code 3153616) as prescribed for Chem. Tech. · Semester 5 divides the course into 6 units, covering 28 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3153616)Unit 1 Introduction
- Basic considerations in chemical engineering plant design
- optimization and feasibility of plant design
Unit 2 Process design aspects
- Selection of process-factors affecting process selection
- Types of project design
- Importance of Laboratory development pilot plant
- Safety factors
- types of flow diagrams
Unit 3 Selection of process equipment
- Standard versus special equipment-material of construction for process equipment
- selection criteria, and specification sheets
Unit 4 Process auxiliaries and Process utilities
- Piping design
- layout, and supports for piping insulations
- Pipe fittings
- types of valves
- selection of valves
- process control and instrumentation control system design
- Process water
- boiler feed water
- water treatment
- waste treatment and disposal
- oil heating system
- chilling plant
- compressed air and vacuum
Unit 5 Plant location and layout
- Factors affecting plant location
- factors in planning layouts
- principles of plant layout
- use of scale models
Unit 6 Cost estimation
- Cash flow and cumulative cash position for industrial operations
- factors affecting Subject Code: 3153616 w.e.f
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