Process Auxiliaries and utilities
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Process Auxiliaries and utilities Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Process Auxiliaries and utilities (subject code 3170516) as prescribed for Chemical · Semester 7 divides the course into 7 units, covering 62 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 (3170516)Unit 1 Process Auxiliaries
- Basic considerations and flow diagrams in chemical engineering plant design
- Piping design: Selection of material
- pipe sizes
- working pressure
- basic principles of piping design
- piping drawings
- pipe installations
- overhead installations
- Process steam piping
- selection and determination of steam – pipe size
- Piping insulation
- application of piping insulation
- weather proof and fire resisting pipe insulation jackets
- piping fittings
- pipe joints
Unit 2 Valves
- Types of valves
- selection criteria of valves for various systems
- Pumps: Types of pumps
- NPSH requirement
- pump location
- pump piping
- pump piping support
Unit 3 Process Utilities
- Process Water Sources of water
- hard and soft water
- Requisites of industrial water and its uses
- Methods of water treatment
- Chemical softening
- Resins used for water softening
- Water for boiler use, cooling purposes
- cooling towers
- drinking and process water treatment
- reuse and conservation of water
- waste water treatment and disposal
Unit 4 Process heating systems using steam, hot oil, glycol and water,
- Steam generation and its application in chemical process plants
- distribution and utilization
- design of efficient steam heating systems
- steam economy
- condensate utilization
- steam traps
- their characteristics
- selection and application
- waste heat utilization
- Process cooling systems
- process drains-open and closed
- Non-steam heating system: Thermic fluid heater
- Downtherm heater
- Temperature range
- construction & working
Unit 5 Air
- Air compressors
- Vacuum pumps
- Air receivers
- Distribution systems
- Different types of ejectors
- Air dryers diagrams for 6 15 Bachelor/Master of Engineering Syllabus Subject Code : 3170516 Subject Name : Process Auxiliaries and Utilities pumps
- distillation column
- Reactors and Shell and tube heat exchanger
Unit 6 Compressors and Vacuum Pumps
- Types of compressors and vacuum pumps and their performance characteristics
- Methods of vacuum development and their limitations
- materials handling under vacuum
- lubrication and oil removal in compressors and pumps
- instrument air
Unit 7 Refrigeration and Chilling systems. Oil heating systems, Nitrogen
- utilities energy consideration and utilities management issues. 6 10
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