Lecture - 1 - Introduction
Lecture - 1 - Introduction
Yogendra Shastri
Department of Chemical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
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Conceptual/Basic Engineering Design
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Conceptual/Basic Engineering Design
Process design
• Volume of the reactor
• Length and diameter of the
reactor/column
• Number of stages in a
distillation column
• Area of heat exchangers
• Catalysis quantity and
packing size
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Course Objectives
The course coverage is intended as a guide to the selection and
design of the principal kinds of chemical process equipment by
engineers in petroleum, petrochemicals, biochemical and other
emerging Industries along with an introduction to important
process engineering documents for equipment & plant design
• Assumptions:
– Flowsheet has been developed
– Process has been optimized
– Process conditions have been finalized 7
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Course Content: Some more details
• Plant Design: PFD (Process Flow Diagram), P&ID (Piping &
Instrumentation Diagram), Plant Layout, Safety
• Design variations, selection criteria, process calculations, and
representative industrial applications for the following are covered:
– Reactors: Packed bed, fluidized bed, endothermic, exothermic, two/three phase
– Heat exchangers and evaporators: Shell and tube, design criteria, fluid
restrictions, multiple effect evaporator design, optimum number of effects.
– Pumps: Types of pumps and selection criteria. Typical calculations of a pumping
circuit and pump rating, Pump characteristic curves, Cavitation and NPSH.
– Compression and Expansion: Blowers and compressors, Single or multistage
compressing, Typical multistage compressor calculations.
– Furnaces: Types of furnaces, simple 1-D, 2-D heat transfer models of furnaces.
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Proposed Plan (subject to change)
Lecture Tutorial Total
Topics to cover hours hours hours
Introduction, motivation, course policy 1 1
Engineering Diagrams (PFD, P&ID, Safety, etc.) 1 1
Reactors 4 2 6
Heat exchangers and evaporators 3 2 5
Pumps (of different kinds) and Pump Circuits with
Fittings 2 2 4
Compressors (of different kinds) and basic sizing 2 2 4
Furnaces and Furnace Reactors 2 2 4
Buffer lectures, make up quizzes 2 2
Total 27
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Proposed Schedule
(subject to change)
• Schedule is subject to
change
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