Chemical Engineering Plant Economics
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The official GTU curriculum for Chemical Engineering Plant Economics (subject code DI05005021) as prescribed for MECHANICAL · Semester 5 divides the course into 5 units, covering 43 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 (DI05005021)Unit 1 Introduction
- 1.1. Role of Chemical Engineer.
- 1.2. Chemical Engineering Design.
- 1.3. Need of plant design.
- 1.4. Process Design
- 1.5. Design and selection of chemical engineering equipment
- 1.6. Criteria for good design 06 14%
Unit 2 Development of project for plant and process design
- 2.1. Chemical engineering plant project objective.
- 2.2. Process evolution stages and their Importance.
- 2.3. Plant design factors
- 2.3.1. Technical factors
- 2.3.2. Economic factors
- 2.3.3. Legal factors
- 2.3.4. Safety and sanitation.
- 2.4. Source of Information.
- 2.5. Continuous v/s Batch processing,
- 2.6. Shift and Operating schedules
- 2.7. Types of flow diagrams. 09 20% GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY Program Name: Diploma Engineering Level: Diploma Branch: Chemical Engineering Subject Code: DI05005021 Subject Name: Chemical Engineering Plant Economics w.e.f. 2026-27 http://syllabus.gtu.ac.in/ Page 3 of 6
Unit 3 Selection of chemical engineering equipments
- 3.1. selection of material
- 3.2. Plan for selection of equipment
- 3.3. Selection of process equipment and specification sheet for equipment
- 3.4. Standard v/s Special equipment.
- 3.5. Selection of equipment (a) Size reduction equipment, (b) Heat transfer equipment, (c) Material handling equipment (d) Mass transfer equipment (e) Pumps
- 3.6. Piping, Pipe strength and wall thickness
- 3.7. Piping design problems,
- 3.8. Types of insulation, Factors governing selection of insulation. 10 22%
Unit 4 Plant Layout and Location
- 4.1. Factors of plant layout
- 4.2. Principles of plant layout
- 4.3. Factors for selection of plant location: Primary factors and specific factors 05 11%
Unit 5 Economic evaluation of the project
- 5.1. Capital investment.
- 5.2. Fixed capital investment,
- 5.3. Working capital investment.
- 5.4. Factors affecting investment and production costs.
- 5.5. Cost Indices, Cost-Size relation, and cost-Time relation.
- 5.6. Numerical based on Cost Indices
- 5.7. Depreciation and it’s types
- 5.8. Methods for determining depreciations Arbitrary methods, Methods with interest on investment
- 5.8.1. Numeric based on depreciation.
- 5.9. Total product cost (TPC)
- 5.10. Profitability analysis: Net and gross earnings
- 5.11. Percent return on investment, Pay-out time period, Present worth, Turn-over ratio
- 5.12. Break-even analysis (Analytical method),
- 5.13. Break-even chart (Graphical method),
- 5.14. Numerical of Break-even analysis 15 33% Total 45 100% GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY Program Name: Diploma Engineering Level: Diploma Branch: Chemical Engineering Subject Code: DI05005021 Subject Name: Chemical Engineering Plant Economics w.e.f. 2026-27 http://syllabus.gtu.ac.in/ Page 4 of 6
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