Design and Construction of Equipment

Application to the design of chemical equipment. Design of fluid storage and transfer equipment; pressure and non-pressure vessels, pumps and compressors, nozzles, piping, valves. Design of other operational units commonly used in chemical plants; heat exchangers, solid handling devices, fluid processing units, and fixed bed reactors. Fundamentals of heat transfer in conduction and convection and their extension to the process of heat exchanger. Safety and integrity of equipment; safe working stress. Design standards and codes of practice. Engineering drawing and computer-aided design techniques. Flow sheets, plant layout; equipment, piping and site layouts.

• 1Recognise the principles of process equipment design, the mechanical aspects of the design operation of process equipment, including safety considerations
• 2Design several different unit operations in detail
• 3Develop process flow sheets and design process layouts of equipment and pipelines in chemical process plants
• 4Prepare equipment drawings using computer-aided design and equipment specification sheets
• 5Describe the principles of heat transfer and apply that to heat exchanger designs