Course Details

1	Title of the course (L-T-P-C)	Process Equipment Design and Economics (3-0-0-6)
2	Pre-requisite courses(s)
3	Course content	Mechanical design of process equipment: pressure vessels, tall columns, etc., process piping design; Materials and Fabrication Selection; Design Strategy and Optimum Equipment Design: Economic Design criteria; Cost and Asset Accounting; Cost Estimation; Interest and Investment Costs; Taxes and Insurance; Depreciation; Profitability, Alternative Investments and Replacement; Illustrative Case Study in Process Equipment Design and Costing of Equipment in each of the following categories: Material Transfer, Handling and Treatment Equipment Heat Transfer Equipment: Shell and tube heat exchangers (Kern and Bell-Delaware design methods), Plate heat exchangers, Evaporators Mass Transfer Equipment: Absorption/ Stripping columns (packed/tray), Multicomponent distallation colum (FenskeUnderwood-Gilliland correlations) Reactors: choice of reactors, non-isothermal reactors, reactor
4	Texts/References	R.E.Treybal, Mass Transfer Operations, 3rd Edition, McGraw Hill, New Delhi, 1983. E.D. Cussler, Di usion - Mass Transfer in Fluid Systems, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1984. A. S. Foust, Principles of Unit Operations, 2nd Edition, Wiley, New York, 1980. C.J.Geankoplis,Transport Processes and Unit Operations,3rd Edition,Prentice Hall,India, 1993.

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