Process Equipment Design
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Process Equipment Design Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Process Equipment Design (subject code 3170502) as prescribed for Chemical · Semester 7 divides the course into 5 units, covering 51 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 (3170502)Unit 1 Process design of Piping and Pumps
- Process design of piping
- NPSHA & NPSHR
- Power required by pump
- Power required in Fan, Blower and adiabatic compressor
- flow meters
- Process design of Orifice meter
- Rotameter etc
Unit 2 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 Bachelor/Master of Engineering Syllabus Subject Code : 3170502 Subject Name : Process Equipment Design 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 & Thermosyphon Reboilers and vaporizes
- Tinker’s flow model
Unit 3 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 distillation by Fenskey- Underwood-Gilliland’s method
- Selection of trays
- Calculations for tower diameter & pressure drop of sieve tray tower
- Checking of conditions for weeping
- down comer flooding
- liquid entrainment, etc, tray efficiency
- Jet Flooding & down comer Flooding
- Different types of weirs & down comers of tray tower
- their selection criteria
Unit 4 Process design of Absorbers
- Criteria for selection among different types of absorption equipment
- Process Design of packed tower type absorber: Determination of actual amount of solvent
- Selection of packing
- Determination of tower diameter & pressure drop
- Determination of NtoG
- HtoG & height of packing
- Process design & selection criteria of liquid distributors
- redistributors & packing support
- Process design of Spray chamber or spray tower type absorber
- Venturi Scrubber
Unit 5 Mechanical design of Pressure Vessel
- Selection of material of construction
- Concept of internal & external design pressure
- design stress & design temperature
- Different types of equipments
- Static & rotary equipments
- Different types of static equipments
- Different types of welding joints
- Joint efficiency
- Mechanical design of shell
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