Refinery Process Design detailed syllabus for Petrochemical Engineering (PCE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna University official website and presented for the PCE 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 Petrochemical Engineering 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit PCE 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. The detailed syllabus of refinery process design is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
MULTICOMPONENT DISTILLATION 9
Dew point and bubble point for multi component mixtures. Design of multi component distillation column, Number of variables, Selection of key components, Selection of column pressure, Feed condition, Plate-to-plate calculations, Empirical short cut methods, Introduction to rigorous solution procedures.
Unit II
PETROLEUM REFINERY DISTILLATION 9
TBP, EFV, ASTM distillation curves and their relevance, Material balance and flash zone calculations for petroleum refinery distillation columns, Pump around and pump back calculations, Overall energy requirements, Estimation of number of equilibrium stages, Design using Packie charts and Watkins method, Introduction to rigorous solution procedure based on pseudo components.
Unit III
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Unit IV
FIRED HEATERS 9
Heat load calculations for furnace heaters used in crude refining, Basic constructional features, Different furnace types, Review of factors to be considered in the design of fired heaters, Introduction to manual calculations methods.
Unit V
PUMPS AND COMPRESSORS 9
Types of pumps and compressors. Selection criteria. Power rating calculations based on process duty. Use of operating curves of centrifugal pump. NPSHR and NPSHA. Pump Cavitation. Surge problem in compressors.
Course Outcomes:
On successful completion of this course, the students will be able to
- Gain the knowledge on the various types of heat exchanger design.
- apply the concepts involved auxiliary equipments like reboilers and condenser, cooling towers
- Understanding the skill in thermal design of heat transfer equipment like shell and tube, Double pipe heat Exchangers and evaporators, and assessing thermal efficiency of the above equipment in practice.
- Evaluating design of distillation, Extraction and absorption columns.
- Design the pumps, fans and compressors
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