Chemical Process Plant Design & Economics
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Chemical Process Plant Design & Economics Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Chemical Process Plant Design & Economics (subject code 3150506) as prescribed for Chemical · Semester 5 divides the course into 5 units, covering 33 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 (3150506)Unit 1 Introduction and Process design aspects
- Basic design
- selection of process-factors affecting process selection
- Types of project design
- Importance of Laboratory development pilot plant
- safety factors
- types of flow diagrams
Unit 2 Selection of process equipments
- Standard versus special equipment-material of construction for process equipments
- selection criteria, and specification sheets
Unit 3 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 4 Plant location and layout
- Factors affecting plant location
- factors in planning layouts
- principles of plant layout
- Unit plot plan
- vertical and horizontal lay out
Unit 5 Cost estimation
- Cash flow and cumulative factors affecting estimation of investment and production cost
- breakeven point and its significance
- total capital investment
- fixed and working capital investment & their estimations
- type of estimates
- cost indexes
- method for 5 Subject Code: 3150506 w.e.f
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