WEEK-WISE LECTURE PLAN Week Topics CLO’s Week 1 Introduction: General overall design considerations: Process design and flowsheet development, optimum design; practical consideration and engineering ethics in design CLO-1 Week 2 General design considerations: Health and safety hazards, importance and objectives of safety, safety measures in equipment design: Fire and explosion hazards and prevention, Chemical, toxic, electrical hazards, control, precautions and prevention, personnel safety, loss prevention and safety audit. CLO-1 Week 3 Environmental protection and development of pollution control systems. Thermal pollution control, toxicological studies, industrial hygiene, radiation hazards. CLO-1 Week 4 Plant site location and layout of chemical plant, piping layout, plant operation and control, plant considerations and exercise problems. CLO-1 Week 5 Process design development: Process selection/creation, synthesis and design: equipment design and specifications. Preliminary process design: screening of process alternatives; economic decision making. CLO-1 Week 6 Flow sheet synthesis and development: Process information, input-output structure; function and operation diagrams; analysis and development of process flow sheet. CLO-2 Week 7 Optimum design and design strategy: defining the optimum problems, programming optimization problems; optimization solution methodologies; optimization applications and cost analysis. CLO-2 Week 8 Pinch technology an overview, key steps of pinch technology: Targeting of heat exchanger network: Designing of HEN: Pinch design methods, Heuristic rules, stream splitting, design of maximum energy recovery (MER) CLO-3 MID TERM EXAMINATION Week 10 Materials selection and fabrication: Corrosion and factors contributing to corrosion; corrosion prevention; material properties; economics involved in materials selection. CLO-2 Week 11 Materials handling equipment design and cost: Basic concept of fluid transport, frictional losses, selection of piping material, design of piping system. CLO-2 Week 12 Computer aided design, cost estimation and profitability analysis of investments, Transport of fluids: selection, design and cost analysis for pumping, compression, expansion, agitation and mixing of fluids, flow measurement and storage of fluids. CLO-4 Week 13 Heat transfer equipment design and cost: Basic theory of heat transfer in exchanger, heat exchanger selection criterion. CLO-2 Week 14 General methods for the design of heat exchangers: Design of key heat exchangers CLO-1 Week 15 Separation equipment design and costs: Introduction, selection, general design and cost of equipment for separation process. CLO-1 Week 16 Design and cost for multi-component distillation: Absorption, adsorption membrane separation. Selection and design of filtration equipment. CLO-1 FINAL TERM EXAMINATION