Process Design and Synthesis
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Process Design and Synthesis Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Process Design and Synthesis (subject code 3713014) as prescribed for CE · Semester 1 divides the course into 6 units, covering 69 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 (3713014)Unit 1 Unit 1
- Introduction Introduction to fundamental concepts and principles of process synthesis and design and use of flow sheet simulators to assist process design
- Process Flow sheet Models: An Introduction to Design
- Chemical process synthesis
- analysis and optimization
- Introduction to commercial process design software such as HYSYS
- Aspen plus etc.
- Chemical Process (reactor
- heat exchanger
- distillation etc) analysis using commercial software
Unit 2 Unit 2
- Product design and developments Process engineering economics and project evaluation Life Cycle Assessments of process: From design to product development
- Engineering Economic Analysis of Chemical Processes
- Project costing and performance analysis
- Environmental concerns
- Green engineering
- Engineering ethics
- Health and safety
Unit 3 Unit 3
- Reactor Networks Geometry of mixing and basic reactor types
- The Attainable Region (AR) approach
- AR in higher dimensions & for other processes
- Reactive Separation processes
- Fundamental behavior and problems
- Separation through reactions
- Reactive Residue Curve Maps
Unit 4 Unit 4
- Synthesis of Separation Trains Criteria for selection of separation methods
- select ion of equipment: Absorption
- Liquid-liquid extraction Membrane separation
- Ideal distillation - Column and sequence fundamentals
- Sharp splits & sequencing Phase diagrams for 2, 3 and 4 components
- Feasibility and vapor flow rates for single columns
- Residue curve basics
- Non-ideal Distillation - Azeotropic systems
- detecting binary azeotropes
- Residue curve maps for azeotropic systems
- Topological analysis
- Feasibility for single azeotropic columns
- Binary VLLE and pressureswing separation
- Non-ideal distillation synthesis
- Equipment sequencing: VLE + VLLE
- Detailed Residue Curve Maps
- Residue curve maps: Interior structure
Unit 5 Unit 5
- Heat Exchanger Network Synthesis Minimum heating and cooling requirements
- Minimum Energy Heat Exchanger Network
- Loops and Paths
- Reducing Number of Exchangers
- HENS basics & graphics
- The pinch point approach
- Stream Splitting
- Performance targets
- trade-off & utilities
- Heat & power integration
- HENS as mathematical programming
Unit 6 Unit 6
- Mass Integration: Introduction
- Minimum Mass Separating Agent (MSA)
- Mass Exchanger Networks Minimum External MSA, Minimum Number of Mass Exchangers References books: Douglas
- J. “Conceptual Design of Chemical Processes”
- New York
- NY: McGraw-Hill Science / Engineering / Math
- ISBN: 0070177627. Seider, W
- Seader, and D
- Lewin. “Product and Process Design Principles: Synthesis
- Analysis, and Evaluation”
- NY: Wiley
- ISBN: 0471216631. Richard Turton
- Synthesis, and Design of Chemical Processes”
- 2nd Edition
- Prentice Hall ISBN-10: 0- 13-064792-6 Biegler L.T.
- Grossmann I.E. and Westerberg A.W.
- “Systematic Methods of Chemical Process Design”
- Prentice Hall
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