Process Equipment Design
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Process Equipment Design Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Process Equipment Design (subject code 4360507) as prescribed for MECHANICAL · Semester 6 divides the course into 5 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 (4360507)Unit 1 Introduction to Process Engineering Design
- 1.2. Calculations related to Unit conversions
- 1.3. Define and Calculate various dimensionless numbers used in Process Design
- 1.4. Introduction to Block Diagram, PFD and P&ID
Unit 2 Design of Piping, Fluid Moving Devices and Flow Meters
- 2.1. Introduction to Process Design of Piping and Fluid Moving Devices
- 2.2. Numericals on Schedule Number Equation
- 2.3. Power Required in Fan, Blower and in Adiabatic Compressor
- 2.4. Troubleshooting of Fluid Flow Systems
- 2.5. Rules of Thumb for process design of fluid flow systems
Unit 3 Design of Heat Transfer Equipments
- 3.1. Various types of Heat Exchangers
- 3.2. Types of Shell and Tube Heat exchangers and its parts
- 3.3. Advantages and Disadvantages of Different Types of Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers Over Each Other
- 3.4. Different Types of TEMA Designations
- 3.5. Steps to Design Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers
- 3.6. Criteria of Selection between Horizontal Condenser and Vertical Condenser
- 3.7. Rules of Thumb for Process Design of Heat Exchanger
Unit 4 Design of Mass Transfer Equipments
- 4.1. Introduction to Mass Transfer Equipment
- 4.2. General steps for design of distillation column.
- 4.3. Advantages and Disadvantages of Vacuum distillation
- 4.4. Determination of VLE data
- 4.5. No of theoretical stages using McCabe Thiele Method
- 4.6. Criteria for selection of absorber
- 4.7. Internals for packed and tray columns
- 4.8. Phase Equilibrium Diagram for LLE
- 4.9. Choice of Solvent for LLE
- 4.10. General design steps for counter- current LLE
- 4.11. Industrial applications of various mass transfer operations
- 4.12. Rules of Thumb for Process Design of Distillation Column, Absorber and LLE.
Unit 5 Design of Reactors
- 5.1. Introduction to Process Design of Reactors
- 5.2. Different types of Reactors
- 5.3. Different Types of Agitators 5.4Heat Transfer in Batch Reactors
- 5.5. Introduction to different types of multi- phase reactors
- 5.6. Rules of Thumb for process and mechanical design of reactors
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