Process Plant Design and flow sheeting
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The official GTU curriculum for Process Plant Design and flow sheeting (subject code ME01030061) as prescribed for CE · Semester 1 divides the course into 5 units, covering 44 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 (ME01030061)Unit 1 Introduction
- Basic concepts
- General Design Considerations
- Process design development
- layout of plant items
- Economic aspects and optimum design
- Practical considerations in design and engineering ethics
- Network analysis
Unit 2 Analysis of cost estimation, Factors affecting investment and
- production costs
- Estimation of capital Investment and total product cost
- Time value of money
- Taxes and Fixed Charges
- Salvage value
- Depreciation calculation
Unit 3 Flow-sheeting
- Synthesis of flow sheet: Propositional logic and semantic equations
- Deduction theorem
- Algorithmic flow sheet generation using P-graph theory
- Sequencing of operating units
- Feasibility and optimization of flow sheet using various algorithms viz, Solution Structure Generation (SSG)
- Maximal Structure Generation (MSG)
- Branch-and-bound etc
Unit 4 Optimum Design and Design Strategy
- Break-even analysis
- Optimum production rates in plant operation
- Optimum batch cycle time applied to evaporator and filter press
- Economic pipe diameter
- Optimum insulation thickness
- Optimum cooling water flow rate and optimum distillation reflux ratio
Unit 5 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
- Valves: Types of valves
- selection criteria of valves for various systems
- Pumps: Types of pumps
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