Chemical Plant Design detailed syllabus for Chemical Engineering (CE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the CE students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Chemical Engineering 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit CE 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-VI scheme and its subjects refer to CE Professional Elective-VI syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of chemical plant design is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
ROTARY EQUIPMENT 9
Pumps: Various types: Centrifugal, Reciprocating& Other Positive displacement types – Plunger, Piston, Diaphragm, Gear, Screw, Lobe, Vane, etc.; Compressors: Various types: Axial, Centrifugal, Reciprocating, and other positive displacement type such as Rotary Screw, Scroll, etc. Further, compressors are classified into two namely Oil free and Oil flooded lubricated; Fans: Various types: Axial fans (including Propeller, Tube-axial, and Vane-axial) and Centrifugal fans. Further fans are classified as Induced draft and Forced draft types; Steam Turbines: : Various types: Back Pressure and Condensing Types with and without extraction, Impulse & Reaction types; Gas Turbines : Various types: Turbojet, Turboprop, Turbofan and Turboshaft Engines; Motor :Various types: AC motors (Synchronous & Asynchronous motors), DC motors (brushed and brushless), Variable Frequency and Variable Speed motors and Special purpose motors, Generator: Various types: AC and DC generator; Other Special Equipment: Various types: Power Recovery Turbines, Heat Pumps, Ejector pump, NASH vacuum pump Case Studies -From Industries on operations and maintenance aspects viz. Trouble shooting, Energy improvement, Capacity augmentation, Design tips, Equipment safety, Catastrophic incidents, etc.
Unit II
STATIC EQUIPMENT – HEAT TRANSFER EQUIPMENT 9
Heat Exchangers- Shell and Tube, Double Pipe, Plate &Frame type, Tube in tube Scraped surface, and Fin tube, Coolers, Condensers, Fin Fan Coolers; Fired Heaters& Boilers- With or without air preheaters, Balanced draft or simply natural draft or even only forced draft, With and without waste heat generation, Refrigeration& Air Conditioning- HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning); Miscellaneous – Chilled water system with vapour compression refrigeration, Ejector refrigeration system, direct contact heat exchanger (such as cooling towers, Jet condensers, direct contact feed), Incinerator. Case Studies – From Industries on operations and maintenance aspects viz. Fouling control, Pinch study for energy recovery, Capacity creep, Design tips, Equipment safety, Catastrophic incidents, etc.
Unit III
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Unit IV
EQUIPMENT ANCILLARIES 9
Special equipment- Static Mixer, Agitators, Jet Mixing, Ejectors, Eductors, Structured Packing, Grid Packing and Random Packing, Demisters, Vortex Breaker, Calming Baffles, Schoepentoeter, Vapour horn device, Cyclone separators; Package units – Inert gas generators, Feed stream filters (Mechanical, Chemical), Scrubbers, Spray Nozzles, Guard beds, Flare stack, Ground Flare, Flame arrestors, Strainers, Spring supports, Expansion joints, Electrostatic Precipitators; Steam Traps – Thermodynamic, Inverted Bucket type, Thermostatic – Float, Bimetallic type, etc., Case Studies – From Industries on operations & maintenance aspects viz. Trouble shooting, Efficiency / Effectiveness tracking, Debottlenecking, Design tips, Safety & Environmental Incidents, etc.
Unit V
STATIC EQUIPMENT – PRESSURE VESSELS, INTERNALS &SAFETY VALVES
Pressure Vessels – Vertical / Horizontal, Knock Out Drums, Steam and Blow down drum, Cold & Hot Separators, Surge drum, Deaerators, Water Seal Pot, Molecular seals, Shock Absorbers, Pressure snubber, Silencer, Slug Catcher, Desalter, Coke drum; Vessel & Columns – associated structural accessories such as Platforms, Ladders, Staircase etc. Internals -Column internals such as Trays (Sieve, Valve, Bubble Cap, Baffle, Dual flow, Multi down comer, Chimney tray etc.), Packings (structured, grid, random, etc.), Packed tower internals – Bed support plates, Liquid distributors, Bed limiters etc.; Mist eliminators, Demisters, Coalescing pads, Vortex breakers etc. Safety Valves: Normal, balanced bellows, pilot operated, etc., Rupture Discs, and Design codes governing Safety valve design, Case Studies- From industrial operations & maintenance activities-ASME codes, Trouble shooting, Efficiency tracking, Use of IoT, Debottlenecking, and Design tips, Safety & Environmental Incidents, etc.
Course Outcomes:
On completion of the course, the students will be able to
- understand the basic on designing chemical process unit for rotary equipment
- learn the operations of boilers, heat exchangers, refrigeration and air conditioners.
- knowledge on operations of reactors, humidifiers and mass transfer operations
- learn the different types of equipments in process industries
- understand the knowledge on usage of different valves such as pressure, safety and internal.
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- Applied Process Design for Chemical and Petrochemical Plants – Ernest E. Ludwig
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Chemical Engineering 6th Sem, visit CE 6th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
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