Process Equipment Design 60153

PROCESS EQUIPMENT DESIGN C.E.T. : 4.204 Sessionals : 30 Examination : 70

Periods per week : 4 Duration of Exam. : 3 Hrs. Nature of Exam. : Theory.

UNIT - I Design of Pressure Vessels : General design considerations of pressure vessels, design of thinwalled vessels for internal pressure and external pressure, design principles of tall columns. UNIT – II Design of vessel components.:Types of flanges, design of loose type non-standard flanges, compensation requirements for openings and branches. Impellers stuffing box and design of shaft. Types and selection of equipment s. UNIT – III Design of heat transfer equipment:Shell and tube exchanger’s construction details TEMA standards and general design considerations. Kern`s methods of Process design of exchangers for sensible heat transfer. Design of shell & tube condensers (excluding multi – component condensers). & Design of 1-2 shell and Tube Exchangers in series. UNIT – IV Continuous stage wise distillation column (Binary systems), design variables – Mc Cab hile Method – Low product concentration – smoker equations – prediction of plate efficiency column sizing. Distillation with side streams and multiple feeds. Choice of plate verses packed columns. Selection of column pressure. UNIT – V Plate ors – selection of plate type – plate constructions - sieve plate hydraulics design. Design of sieve plates - Down Comer design. Examination :

One question from each unit with internal choice

BOOKS RECOMMENDED : 1.Chemical Engineering, Vo1. 6 3/e Chem Engg.; Design by J.M.Coulson, J.F.Richardson and R.K. Simmott – Butter worth - Heinemann – 1999. 2.Process Heat transfer, by D.Q. Kern, McGraw Hill Book. Co., 1997 3.Code for unfired pressure vessels Is 2825. 4.Process Equipment Design by M.V.Joshi Macmillan India Ltd, 1981. pdfMachine A pdf writer that produces quality PDF files with ease! Produce quality PDF files in seconds and preserve the integrity of your original documents. Compatible across nearly all Windows platforms, simply open the document you want to convert, click “print”, select the “Broadgun pdfMachine printer” and that’s it! Get yours now!