Computer Aided Product & ProcessDesign(CAPPD)
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The official GTU curriculum for Computer Aided Product & ProcessDesign(CAPPD) (subject code 2731602) as prescribed for CE(A · Semester 3 divides the course into 6 units, covering 32 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 (2731602)Unit 1 Product and Process Design
- Steps in Product and Process Design
- Environment Protection
- Safety Considerations
- Engineering Ethics
- Process Creation
- preliminary database creation and process synthesis
- development of base-case design
- simulation to assist process creation
- heuristics for process synthesis
- Equipment Sizing and Costing
Unit 2 Design and Scheduling of Batch Processes
- Single product batch plants
- Multiple product batch plants
- Transfer policies
- Parallel units and intermediate storage
- Sizing of vessels in batch plants
- Synthesis of flow shop plants
Unit 3 Optimal design and scheduling of multi-product batch plants
- constraints for flow shop plants
- MINLP design model for flow shop plants
- MILP reformulation for discrete sizes
- NLP design model-Mixed product campaigns
- Cyclic scheduling in flow shop plants
Unit 4 Geometric Techniques for the Synthesis of Reactor Networks
- Graphical techniques for simple reacting system
- Geometric concept for attainable regions
- Reaction invariants and reactor network synthesis
Unit 5 Optimization Techniques for Reactor Network Synthesis
- Reactor Network Synthesis with targeting formulation
- Non-isothermal systems
- Improvement to the targeting algorithm
- Reactor Network Synthesis in process flow sheets
- Energy integrating in reactor networks
Unit 6 Synthesis and Optimization of Distillation Sequences
- Goal of system design
- Minimum vapor flows
- Marginal vapor flows