Mechanical Design of Process equipments
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Mechanical Design of Process equipments Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Mechanical Design of Process equipments (subject code 3170514) as prescribed for Chemical · Semester 7 divides the course into 6 units, covering 38 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 (3170514)Unit 1 Introduction
- Design pressure and temperature
- design and allowable stress
- Static and rotary equipments
- Different types of welding joints
- joint efficiency and methods of fabrication of equipment
- standard and specification for pressure vessel
- Mechanical properties of material
Unit 2 Design of Pressure vessel
- Mechanical design of shell and head subjected to internal and 10 20 Bachelor/Master of Engineering Syllabus Subject Code : 3170514 Subject Name : Mechanical Design of Process Equipments external pressure
- Graphical & analytical method for shell and head subjected to external pressure
- Shell design for external pressure with & without stiffening ring
- Different types of Nozzles and design of reinforcement pad for nozzle by area for area method
- Different types of flanges
- flange facings
- gaskets and their selection criteria
- Design of bracket support
Unit 3 Design of Reaction Vessel
- Mechanical design of shell
- Different types of agitators & their selection criteria
- Determination of power required for agitation
- shaft diameter
- blade thickness
- Different types of jackets & their selection criteria
- Selection between coil & jacket
Unit 4 Design of Storage Tank
- Types of storage tanks
- Capacity of storage tank
- its diameter & height
- Design of fixed roof storage tank
- Design of structural supported conical roof as per API 620, Vent sizing for atmospheric and low pressure tanks
Unit 5 Design of Shell & Tube Heat Exchangers
- Function of various parts of shell & tube heat exchanger
- Mechanical design of Shell
- tube sheet
- channel shell
- etc. of shell & tube heat exchanger
- Mechanical design of saddle support
Unit 6 Design of Distillation and Absorption Column
- Mechanical design of shell
- tray support for Vertical tall tower
- Determination of shell thicknesses at various heights for tray tower & packed tower in case of internal & external pressure
- Different types of tray support
- Mechanical design of skirt support
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