PROCESS EQUIPMENT DESIGN

C.E.T. : 4.204 Periods per week : 4

Sessionals : 30 Duration of Exam. : 3 Hrs.
Examination : 70 Nature of Exam. : Theory.

UNIT - I

Design of Pressure Vessels : General design considerations of pressure vessels, design of thin-
walled 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 supports.

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 contactors – 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.

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