CH 1044

Fluid Dynamics

Pipe Network Design

Guidelines

Department of Chemical and Process Engineering

University of Moratuwa
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. OBJECTIVE OF THE ASSIGNMENT ......................................................................................................................... 1

2. MARKS ALLOCATION AND DEADLINES ................................................................................................................. 1

3. TASK DETAILS ...................................................................................................................................................... 2

3.1. PROJECT PROPOSAL ................................................................................................................................................ 2

3.2. FINAL REPORT ........................................................................................................................................................ 3
3.3. PRESENTATION AND VIVA ......................................................................................................................................... 4

4. FORMATTING OF REPORTS AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ................................................................................. 5

ANNEX A – COVER PAGE ............................................................................................................................................... 6

ANNEX B – GROUPS (BATCH 21) ................................................................................................................................... 7

ANNEX C – SELF & PEER EVALUATION FOR GROUP ASSIGNMENTS/PROJECTS .............................................................10

ANNEX D – RUBRICS FOR PIPE NETWORK DESIGN PROPOSAL .....................................................................................12

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1. OBJECTIVE OF THE ASSIGNMENT

The objective of this assignment is to design a pipe network for a bottled food (jam/sauce/juice/ etc.)
manufacturing plant and thereby develop the skills required to evaluate the pipe network in the aspects
such as water requirement for the operation of the plant, water balance for the processes and selection
of appropriate pipes, valves, pumps, tanks through design calculations. Students are required to engage
in self-learning and use available resources to complete this assignment.

This assignment will consist of three sections: project proposal, final report, and presentation and viva.

2. MARKS ALLOCATION AND DEADLINES

This assignment carries 15% of the marks from the entire module. The breakdown of marks for the
different sections of the assignment is as follows.
Table 1. Breakdown of marks and deadlines

Mark Allocation
Section Deadlines
Out of Entire Module

Project proposal submission 26th of March 5%

Final report submission 12th week 5%

Group presentation and viva 13th and 14th week 5%

Total 15%

Adherence to the deadlines is strictly followed. Late submissions will be penalised as follows.
• A penalty of 5% of the allocated marks per day up to one week.
• Reports later than 1 week will not be accepted for evaluation.

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3. TASK DETAILS
3.1. Project Proposal
The project proposal accounts for 5% of the module. It should cover the following points.
• A brief introduction about the products manufactured in the factory.
• Identify the processes involved and the type of equipment used for the selected factory from
literature and/or industrial practices.
• Identify a suitable production capacity based on the capacity of existing plants.
• Identify the processing units and develop a process flow diagram.
• Identify the water consumption for each unit according to the production capacity selected.
• Prepare the water balance for the entire plant including other facilities such as canteens,
toilets, etc.
• Develop a plant layout for water distribution.
Develop a sketch of a plant layout using the information gathered to visualize the process units
and equipment and the conditions of the required water. Especially the location of the
equipment/process units and the vertical heights/heads required must be indicated. You may
refer Coulson and Ricardson volume 6-chapter 14 section 14.4 for better understanding of the
factors to be considered when developing a plant layout.

Example plant layout:

Cleaning Tank Admin

Holding Washing Cooking 1st floor
Tanks
5 7

Filling and Labelling Admin

1 2 3 Ground
Floor
8
6
4 9

Boiler

11 12
10

Water Treatment

Figure 1. Proposed plant layout

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Table 2. Estimated water requirements

Unit # 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 10 11 12
Height at the location (m) 1 1.5 1 3 8 2 5 1.5 4 3
Required pressure (bar) 1.1 1.1 xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx

Note: Given plant layout is only a possible combination of units. You must have your own
plant layout by selecting a suitable combination of units based on your production
process/es, production capacity as well as the material flow.
• Include intext citation of data obtained for calculations.
• If any assumptions are used, identify them appropriately with justification.
• Formatting for the proposal is given under section 4.
• The proposal must contain a maximum of 5 pages excluding the cover page, table of contents
and references.

3.2. Final report

The project proposal accounts for 5% of the module. It should cover the following points.
• A comprehensive report carrying all in-depth calculations related to the design and analysis
of the pipe network system for the food manufacturing plant proposed by you in the project
proposal.
• The pipe network design includes the selection of appropriate pumps, pipes, valves, storage
tanks and any other necessary components in the network.
• This is an open-ended assignment driven through self-learning. Therefore, the calculations
may include (but not limited to),
o Pump selection
o Pressure heads/losses
o Flowrates
o Tank and pipe dimensions
• A summary of important information from project proposal and the plant layout must be
included in the introduction section.
• Detailed pipeline diagrams drawn using a suitable software (Ex. AutoCAD, Solidworks)
should be attached along with calculations.
• Numbered appendices (attached after References) can be used to include additional
information.
• Include intext citation of data obtained for calculations.

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• If any assumptions are used, identify them appropriately with justification.

• Formatting for the report is given under section 4.
• The final report must contain a maximum of 15 pages excluding the cover page, table of
contents, references, and appendices.
• Fill the Individual Contribution form uploaded to the Moodle and attach at the end of the
report.

3.3. Presentation and Viva

The presentation and viva account for 5% of the module.
• Group Presentation - 15 minutes
o 10-15 slides with only important information of the design
o Each member of the group should deliver a part of the presentation according to a
preferred order.
o Each presenter should introduce themselves with name and index number before their
part.
o Include diagrams wherever possible to summarize and explain the calculations/
results. Refrain from using lengthy paragraphs/calculation steps in the presentation.
o All the members must be available for presentation and the Q&A session.
• Individual viva - 10 minutes
o Questions will be asked regarding the assignment, mainly focusing on the areas each
student contributed. However, every student must be thorough with entire work.
o Theoretical (assignment related information) and practical questions (Ex. Meetings
held to discuss about the assignment, Information and workload sharing within group
members, Obstacles faced and how you overcame them) might be asked.
o Only the person whom the question is directed at is expected to answer the question.
The others will be given the opportunity to answer that question with the discretion of
the examiner.

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4. FORMATTING OF REPORTS AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

• General formatting for the proposal and report.
o PDF submission with A4 Page Size with Moderate margins.
o Font: Times New Roman, Justified, 12 pt, 1.5 Line spacing.
o Topics and subtopics (up to two heading levels) must be numbered.
o Page numbers, table of contents, executive summary, appropriately captioned tables
and figures should be included.
o Use passive voice with proper technical writing.
• References
o Harvard format - In text citation is NECESSARY.
• Cover page as per Annex A
• One person from each group should submit the proposal and the report pdf, named as
“Group Number”.
Example G_1 (To the Moodle assignment “Pipe Network – Proposal)
G_1 (To the Moodle assignment “Pipe Network – Final Report)
• Upon submission of each report (proposal and final) individually submit the peer review
evaluation form given in Annex C.
• Plagiarism will be checked using Turnitin software, should be less than 15%.
• Not following the guidelines will lead to reduction of marks.

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ANNEX A – COVER PAGE

CH 1044
Fluid Dynamics
Pipe Network Design
Name of Production Plant

Date of submission: dd/mm/yyyy

Group number: G -
Name 1 – index 1
Name 2 – index 2
Name 3 – index 3
Name 4 – index 4
Name 5 – index 5

Department of Chemical and Process Engineering

University of Moratuwa
Moratuwa

(Batch 19)
Department of Chemical and Process Engineering
University of Moratuwa

Department of Chemical and Process

Engineering 6
University of Moratuwa
Moratuwa
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ANNEX B – GROUPS (BATCH 21)

Name Index number Group

DILSHAN B.G.T. 180145X
PERERA M.S.G. 200461P
JAYASEKARA M.O.P. 200252C G1
KARIYAWASAM K.H.S.C. 200288P
NIROSHAN B.W. 200429C
WANNIARACHCHI W.D.T.T. 190662M
ADHEEB M.I.T.A. 210020A
ALAGIYAWANNA A.W.C.S.A. 210026X G2
AMARASINGHE B.V.B. 210032L
AMARASINGHE D.P.S.M. 210033P
ANUTHTHARA G.S. 210046H
ANUTHTHARA H.A.P. 210047L
ARAN I. 210050N
G3
CHAMINDA P.D.P. 210073L
CHAMUDITHA G.K. 210074P
CHANDRASENA O.O. 210076A
CHATHURANGA H.W.D.K. 210082M
CHATHURANGA N.A.R.P. 210084V
DANGALLA D.U.R. 210093X G4
DE SILVA T.M.C. 210105N
DE SILVA W.A.I.Y. 210106T
DHANANJAYA K.M.K. 210117D
DHANANJAYA Y.M.K. 210118G
DINAL W.A.D. 210132T G5
DISANAYAKA D.M.D.N. 210137M
DISSANAYAKE D.M.S.D. 210147T
DISSANAYAKE J.N.S. 210148X
EKANAYAKE EMCL 210154L
GODAGEDARA M.J.S.S. 210188T G6
HASANDI P.K.A.T. 210208H
HEMAL K.A.H. 210211K
HIRIMUTHUGODA KY 210225G G7

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IHZAN M.M.F. 210228T

INAS A.C.H.M. 210231V
JAYAMANNE A.P 210240X
JAYASOORIYA J.K.N.M. 210251G
JAYATHILAKA S.M.C.M. 210255X
JAYATHILAKE G.H.S. 210256C
JAYAWARDANA V.I. 210260H
KAVINDI D.M.N. 210283F G8
KESHAN D.A.U. 210288B
KULASOORIYA M.D.I.G.S. 210304A
LAKMINDA K.G.G. 210328B
MALEESHA J.A.P. 210360N
MATHURAGAVAN R. 210380B G9
MEEGALLE M.G.R.T.P. 210384P
MUDANNAYAKA S.J. 210392M
MUTHUGALA M.M.R.L. 210399P
NAVOD A.A.K. 210411A
NAYANASHAN M.A.M. 210416T G10
NETHSARANI K.A.H.N. 210423L
NIPUNIKA E.A.D.H. 210430F
NIRINDI M.C.V. 210431J
NUWARAGEDARA N.A.S.B. 210440K
OBEYSEKARA R.M.L.D. 210441N G11
PERERA A.P.N.L. 210455K
PERERA E.T.B. 210457T
PINTO H.P.A.P.D. 210475V
PIYATHMA P.K.D. 210480G
PRABASHWARA R.L.J.M. 210747H
G12
RANASINGHA A.I.K. 210514R
RANASINGHE P.G.C.M. 210519L
RANAWEERA R.M.S.P. 210524X
RATHNAKUMARA N.R.N.C. 210532U
SACHITHA K.H. 210550X G13
SAMARASINGHE K.D. 210561G

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SAYURANGA I.S.C.G.M. 210582V

SENARATNE K.M.G.B. 210590T
THAJEEVAN A. 210628U
THARUSHIKA H.M.U. 210635M
THENUWARA A.V. 210643K G14
THENUWARA S.N. 210644N
TISSERA H.A.P.N. 210659N
VENUSHAN A. 210667L
VIDANAPATHIRANA R.C. 210742M
VISHVANATH M.P.E.K. 210673C
G15
WANIGASINGHE P.N. 210677R
WICKRAMARATHNE B.D.R. 210702R
WICKRAMARATHNE V.I.R. 210704B
WIJERATHNA H.A.W.M.K. 210715J
WIJERATHNE R.A.C.M. 210717R
WIJEWARDHANA G.O.P. 210727X G16
YAPA Y.M.T.D. 210736A
YASHODHA K.A.V. 210738G

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ANNEX C – SELF & PEER EVALUATION FOR GROUP

ASSIGNMENTS/PROJECTS

Answer the following questions and submit the form after completing your group project/assignment.
A. Student and project/assignment information
A.1. Name
A.2. Index number
A.3. Module code and name

A.4. Group project/assignment topic

A.5. Group number

A.6. Date of assignment/submission

B. Self and peer evaluation

Please assess the work done by you and your colleagues by using the following criteria. Please try to
be as honest and fair as possible in your assessment.
5 = Excellent work; was a crucial component to the group’s success
4 = Very strong work; contributed significantly to the group
3 = Sufficient effort; contributed adequately to the group
2 = Insufficient effort; did not meet the minimal standards of the group
1 = Little or weak effort; was detrimental to the group
B.1. Self-evaluation

Name:
Index number:

Criteria Marks (out of 5)

Participation in developing ideas and planning the project/assignment
Willingness to discuss others’ ideas
Cooperation with other group members
Interest and enthusiasm in the project/assignment
Participation in leading/facilitating discussion
Ease and familiarity with discussion material

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B.2. Peer evaluation

Group member details Criteria (Enter marks out of 5)

No Name Index Participation Willingness to Cooperation Interest and Participation Ease and
in developing discuss others’ with other enthusiasm in in leading/ familiarity
number ideas and ideas group the project/ facilitating with discussion
planning the members assignment discussion material
project/
assignment
1

C. Other comments:

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ANNEX D – RUBRICS FOR PIPE NETWORK DESIGN PROPOSAL
Introduction and identifying a
suitable production capacity 10%
Identify the processing units and
equipment 25%
Process flow diagram 10%
Water balance 30%
Plant layout with water
requirements 20%
References and general structure
5%
E - Exemplary (A+, A, A- > 70)
Clearly describes the given production process including
the raw material, possible methods, and selected
processes of production. To the point and contains all
pertinent details. A suitable capacity has been identified
with exact justifications and credible sources.
Identifies correct and best suiting processes and uniquely
describes the equipment that consumes/requires water
and in which conditions extensively, e.g.: pressure,
height, etc.
PFD/block diagram has been clearly used for depiction
of material flow. Good understanding of the production
process.
Calculations have been done correctly. Calculations are
justified and suitable assumptions/references have been
used. A summarized table/diagram containing water
balance has been clearly presented with defined
parameters (e.g.: pressure) all units are correct.
Placement of all equipment in a suitable plant layout
based on selected processes and equipment. Well thought
out and complete water requirement table has been
presented.
Well-structured proposal with a good flow from one
section to the next, references have been stated using
intext citation and an appropriate bibliography has been
given at the end of the report. A consistent style of
referencing has been used. Use of contents page,
captioned tables and images, font 12pt, justified, times
new roman, pages numbered.
C - Competent (70 > B+, B, B- > 55)
Adequately describes the given production process
including the raw material, possible methods, and
selected processes of production, to the point and
contains pertinent details. Identifying a suitable
capacity with accurate reasoning.
Identifies appropriate processes and uniquely points
out the equipment that consumes/requires water and
in which conditions, e.g.: pressure, height, etc.
PFD/block diagram used for depiction of material
flow with no errors. Understanding of the production
process is visible.
Calculations have been done mostly correctly (small
errors not linked to theory). Calculations are
reasonably justified with use of assumptions/
references. A summarized table/diagram containing
water balance has been presented with defined
parameters (e.g.: pressure) all units are correct.
Placement of all equipment in a suitable plant layout.
Adequate thought has been given to the water
requirement table.
Adequately structured proposal, references have been
stated using intext citation (some missing) and an
appropriate bibliography has been given at the end of
the report. A consistent style of referencing has been
used. Use of contents page, captioned tables and
images, font 12pt, justified, times new roman, pages
numbered.
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D - Developing (55 > C+, C, C-, D > 35) B - Beginning (F < 35)
Describes the given production process including the
raw material, and selected processes of production, Description of the given production process
too lengthy/too short descriptions but required is inadequate, necessary/not enough details.
minimal details are available. Identifying a Identified capacity is unrealistic with
reasonable capacity with acceptable reasons (not minimal/no reasoning.
wholistic, e.g.: single source of reference).
Requires better understanding of the
The processes identified is correct but may not be the
processes, some wrong selections.
most suitable choice. Some equipment that requires
Equipment that consumes/requires water has
water has been identified correctly but not all.
not been accurately identified.
PFD/block diagram used for depiction of material Incomplete PFD/block diagram. Requires
flow with errors. Understanding of the production better understanding of the production
process is visible but needs improvement. process, flow of materials.
Calculations have been done mostly correctly, (small
Calculations have glaring errors,
errors linked to theory/general calculations) strictly
theory/assumptions are not sound. Balances
necessary assumptions/references have been used. A
are not accurate. Not much thought has been
summarized table/diagram containing water balance
given to the water usage.
has been presented.
Placement of all equipment in the plant layout has Plant layout has not been well thought out,
been done but may require adjustments to suit the missing equipment, layout must be changed
selected process. Incomplete water requirement table to better suit the selected processes. Water
given. requirements have not been identified at all.
Basic structure of proposal following the given guide,
references have been stated using intext citation
Structure is not well defined. Minimal/no
(some missing) and an appropriate bibliography has
references used, lack of intext citation,
been given at the end of the report. Inconsistent style
formatting is not consistent, lack of table of
of referencing has been used. General formatting is
content, tables/figures have not been named.
not consistent (different fonts, sizes, not justified
etc.).