About Chemical Engineering Apparatus Design
The course aims to introduce the students with the design principles, procedures and design of chemical process equipment. 1. Mechanical Design 1.1 Introduction 1.2 General design consideration: Pressure vessel 1.3 Design of Thin walled vessel under Internal pressure 1.4 Design of vessel subjected to external pressure 1.5 Design of vessel support 1.6 Design of tanks 2. Heat Exchangers 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Basic design procedure & Theory 2.3 Shell and tube exchangers 2.3.1 Construction details 2.3.2 General Design Considerations 2.3.3 Mechanical Design of Heat Exchanger Tube plates 2.4 Plate and frame heat exchanger 2.5 Coil heat exchanger 2.6 Jacketed heat exchanger 3. Separation Columns 3.1 Plate Column Design 3.1.1 Selection of Plate Type 3.1.2 Plate construction 3.1.3 Plate Hydraulic Design-Plate Diameter, Areas, Hole size, Pitch, Flow Arrangement, Pressure drop & Down comer Design 3.2 Packed Column Design Type of Packing 4. Design of fluid storage and transfer equipment; 4.1 pressure and non-pressure vessels 5. Design of solid handling devices 6. Piping Systems 6.1 Design Conditions, Loads, and Stresses 6.2 Material Selection 6.3 Fittings 6.4 Flanges 6.5 Gaskets 6.6 Nozzles 7. Design of basic chemical engineering equipments Evaporator, Condenser, Boiler, Dryers, Crystallization units, Extraction unit 8. Reactor design 8.1 Stirred tank reactors 8.2 tubular reactor 9. Mechanical operations 9.1 Filtration 9.2 Centrifuge 9.3 Decanters and clarifiers 9.4 Mixers 9.5 Fixed and Fluidized bed