Project & Plant Engineering
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The official GTU curriculum for Project & Plant Engineering (subject code 2173611) as prescribed for Chem. Tech. · Semester 7 divides the course into 8 units, covering 50 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 (2173611)Unit 1 Introduction
- Meaning of project engineering
- various stages of project implementation
- general overall considerations in plant design
- project identification
Unit 2 Process design aspects
- Selection of process
- factors affecting process selection
- Importance of laboratory development pilot plant
- scale up methods
- safety factors
- types of flow diagrams
Unit 3 Plant location and layout
- Factors affecting plant location
- factors in planning layouts
- evaluation of techno-economic feasibility report
- principles of plant layout
- use of scale models
Unit 4 Process equipments& Process utilities
- Standard versus special equipment-material of construction for process Equipment’s
- selection criteria, and specification sheets
- Process water
- boiler feed water
- water treatment
- waste treatment and disposal
- oil heating system
- chilling plant
- compressed air and vacuum
Unit 5 Project and Product Cost estimation
- Cash flow for industrial operations
- cumulative cash analysis break even analysis
- cost indexes: Marshall and Swift equipment cost indexes
- estimating equipment costs by scaling
- total capital investment
- fixed capital and working capital
- types and methods for estimation of total capital investment
- estimation of equipment cost Factors involved in project cost
- factors affecting investment and Production costs
- utilities cost
- evaluation of product cost
Unit 6 Depreciation
- Types of depreciation
- service life
- salvage value and present value of assets
- Methods of determining depreciation like straight-line method
- declining-balance method
- Sum-of- the-years-digits method
- sinking-fund method
- Single-unit and group depreciation
- evaluation of depreciation methods
Unit 7 Profitability, alternative investments and replacement
- Methods for profitability evaluation
- rate of return on investment
- practical factors in alternative investment and replacement studies
Unit 8 Project management
- Planning of project schedule by bar chart
- inventory control scheduling
- A project using CPM/PERT methods
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