NPTEL Syllabus

Chemical Engineering Design - I -

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COURSE OUTLINE

This course of Equipment Design is planned in such a manner so as

to give chemical engineering graduates the up-to-date knowledge for
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industries. It will assist the engineer in examining and analyzing a
problem, and finding a design method and mechanical specifications
to accomplish a particular process objective.
Chemical
This course does not develop or derive theoretical equations; instead,
i t provides direct application of sound theory to applied equations
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useful in the immediate design efforts. It emphasizes to provide
knowledge about design principles of heat and mass transfer
equipment used in chemical plants. It also aims to impart knowledge
about IS Codes used in the mechanical design of chemical Coordinators:
engineering equipments.
Dr. V. C. Srivastava
The course will contain a lot of numerical problems and design Department of
examples so that the students may properly understand the subject Chemical
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COURSE DETAIL

Sl. Topic No. of

No. Hours

1 Basic design procedure of heat transfer 10

equipment, overall heat transfer coefficient and
dirt factors, shell and tube heat exchangers -
construction details, selection algorithm, design
codes, mean temperature difference, general
design considerations, tube-side heat transfer
coefficient and pressure drop, shell-side heat
transfer coefficient and pressure drop.

2 Design of condensers for single vapors, heat 5

transfer coefficient correlations for
condensation inside and outside of tubes of the
 vertical and horizontal condensers, pressure
drop in condensers.

3 Reboilers, vaporizers and evaporators - Pool 5

boiling, convective boiling, selection of reboilers,
and vaporizers, design of reboilers, vaporizers
and evaporators, drawing of evaporators.

4 Design of distillation column, degree of freedom 6

analysis, various design methods of distillation
column, general design consideration of
multicomponent distillation, plate efficiency, tray
hydraulics of sieve and valve - trays.

5 Packed columns - type of packing, packed bed 5

height, column diameter, column internals,
design methods, Design of liquid-liquid
extraction equipment.

6 Design of pressure vessel; Introduction of 12

codes for pressure vessel design; design of
cylindrical and spherical shells under internal
and external pressure, selection and design of
closures, Selection of gaskets, selection of
standard flanges, optimum selection of bolts for
flanges, design of flanges. Design of lug
support and saddle support including bearing
plates and anchor bolts.

Total 43

References:

1. Sinnott R. K.; "Coulson and Richardson's Chemical Engineering

Series", Vol. VI, 4th Ed., Butterworth-Heinemann.

2. Seader J. D. and Henley E. J., "Separation Process Principles",

2nd Ed., Wiley-India.

3. I.S.; 4503 - 1967, Indian Standard Specification for Shell and

Tube Type Heat Exchangers.

4. Hewitt G.F., Shires G. L. and Bott T. R., "Process Heat Transfer",

Begell House.

5. Serth R.W., "Process Heat Transfer: Principles and Applications",

Academic Press.
 6. Brownell L. E. and Young H. E., "Process Equipment Design",
John Wiley.

7. Bhattacharya B. C., "Introduction of Chemical Equipment

Design", CBS Publisher.

8. I.S.:2825-1969, "Code for Unfired Pressure Vessels".

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