Principles of Process Equipment Design
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Principles of Process Equipment Design Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Principles of Process Equipment Design (subject code 3173617) as prescribed for Chem. Tech. · Semester 7 divides the course into 4 units, covering 32 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 (3173617)Unit 1 Introduction to Process Equipment Design
- Criteria and factors for design
- need for design
- basic considerations in equipment design
- nature of design
- types of process
- codes and standards
- factor of safety
- degree of freedom and design variables
Unit 2 Process design of piping, Fluid moving devices
- Process design of piping
- NPSHA &NPSHR
- Power required by pump
- Evaluation of Centrifugal pump performance when handling viscous liquids
- Power required in Fan, Blower and adiabatic compressor
Unit 3 Process design of Heat exchangers
- Shell & Tube heat exchangers
- Functions of various parts of shell & Tube Heat exchanger
- General design method of shell & tube heat exchanger
- Criteria of selection among Fixed Tube sheet
- U Tube & Floating Head heat exchanger
- Process design of without phase change heat exchanger
- Process design of condenser
- Criteria of selection for Horizontal and vertical condenser
- Process design of Kettle type & Thermo syphon Reboilers
- Tinker’s flow model
- Air cooled heat exchangers and air heaters
- plate heat exchangers, etc
Unit 4 Process design of Distillation Column
- Criteria of selection
- Selection of equipment for distillation
- Distillation column design
- Selection of key components for multi-component distillation
- Determination of operating pressure for distillation column
- Advantages & disadvantages of vacuum distillation
- Determination of nos. of theoretical stages for binary distillation by McCabe Thiele method Determination of nos. of theoretical stages for multi-component 14 Subject Code: 3173617 w.e.f
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