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Principles and Practices of Process Equipment and Plant Design

By Prof. Gargi Das, Prof. S. Ray   |   IIT Kharagpur
Learners enrolled: 1404
The course is expected to impart a holistic approach towards process design i.e. the objective is not to arrive at only the design of individual process equipment, but also to configure it as a complete functional system with its accessories. In other words, it shall deal with process design from the industry perspective. The content will primarily cover the typical mass transfer systems and equipment included in undergraduate curriculum viz. distillation, absorption, adsorption and liquid-liquid extraction along with details of internals in packed and tray columns. It will also cover heat transfer basics and design of double pipe and shell and tube heat exchangers along with heat exchanger network analysis. Relevant design problems will be worked out after completion of each topic. Discussions on process utilities, piping and hydraulics, instrumentation and safety basics will supplement the equipment design procedure and enable understanding of complete plant design.

INTENDED AUDIENCE  :  UG students of Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology, Agriculture Engineering, Rookie engineers and fresh entrants to process industries
PREREQUISITES  :  Mass Transfer, Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, Process instrumentation
INDUSTRY SUPPORT  :  All process industries e.g., oil refineries (IOCL, BPCL, HPCL Reliance, Esser, HMEL), petrochemicals (HPL, Reliance), pharma companies (DRL), etc.
Summary
Course Status : Completed
Course Type : Core
Duration : 12 weeks
Category :
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Minor 2 in Chemical
Credit Points : 3
Level : Undergraduate
Start Date : 26 Jul 2021
End Date : 15 Oct 2021
Enrollment Ends : 09 Aug 2021
Exam Date : 24 Oct 2021 IST

Note: This exam date is subjected to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.


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Course layout

Week-1: Introduction to Plant Design (2); Introduction to Mass transfer Equipment (1); Phase Equilibrium (2)
Week-2: Distillation – Fractionation (4); Design Problem (1)
Week-3: Flash Distillation (1); Batch Distillation (3); Design Problem (1)
Week-4: Absorption (2); Adsorption (2); Design Problem (1)
Week-5: Liquid-Liquid Extraction - 3; Column Internals – 2 [Sieve (1), Valve (1)]
Week-6: Column Internals contd. - Bubble Cap (2); Packed column (1); Design Problem (2)
Week-7: Heat Exchanger: Introduction (1); Double Pipe HE (2); S&T HE (2)
Week-8: S&T HE contd. (1); Design Problem (1+2); Heat Exchanger Network (1)
Week-9: Heat Exchanger Network (3); Design Problem (2)
Week-10: Plant hydraulics: Pumps (2) Compressors(2), Pipeline (1)
Week-11: Pressure Vessels (2); Design Problem (2); Process Utilities (1)
Week-12: Safety (2), Process Design Package (3)

Books and references

1. Process Equipment and Plant Design - Principles and Practices”, Ray. Subhabrata and Das, Gargi; ISBN: 9780128148853; 1st Edn., May 2020, Elsevier Inc. 
2. Smith BD. Design of equilibrium stage processes. McGraw-Hill Companies; 1963. 
3. Sinnott, R.K. and Towler, G., 2013. Chemical Engineering Design, Chemical Engineering Design. 
4. Shah RK, Sekulic DP. Fundamentals of heat exchanger design. John Wiley & Sons; 2003 Aug 11. 
5. Lestina, T. and Serth, R.W., 2007. Process heat transfer: Principles, applications and rules of thumb., Elsevier Ltd.

Instructor bio

Prof. Gargi Das

IIT Kharagpur
Prof. Gargi Das is Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal. She has been teaching thermodynamics for the past 16 years to the students of Chemical Engg and Biotechnology as a core course. Students from Mechanical Engineering, Agricultural Engineering and Chemistry have opted it as a breadth course. She has contributed to NPTEL through her video based and web based courses on Multiphase Flow and Thermodynamics. Her areas of expertise are Multiphase Flow, Transport phenomena, CFD and Process Intensification. She has over 50 refereed research papers, two books and three book chapters


Prof. S. Ray

Prof. Subhabrata Ray after superannuating from IIT Kharagpur on 30th June 2020, is currently a fellow (2020-2021) under "Professor B. D. Tilak Visiting Fellowship Endowment” in ICT Mumbai. He is also involved with M/s. Dr. Reddy’s Laboratory for assessing their employees, training and R&D activities. He regularly serves as faculty for the training courses for refinery engineers at Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Raebareli. He has co-authored a book on Process Equipment and Plant Design-Principles and Practices published in 2020 by Elsevier. After obtaining undergraduate (1975) and postgraduate (1977) degrees in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Ray worked till 1986 in three refineries and the technical department at the HQ of M/s Indian Oil, the premier refining company in India. Thereafter, he worked with M/s TECHNIP-ESIA in France till he joined academics in 1988. Since then, he has been teaching Process Equipment Design, Petroleum Refinery Engineering and other courses in the Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur. He was a consultant to M/s Indian Oil Corporation, M/s Numaligarh Refinery, M/s IFB Agro Industries, M/s Hydrogen Energy LLC. (USA), etc. and was also involved in several other industrial consultancy and government sponsored projects involving scale up of process and plant design. Students under his supervision have won the Acharya P.C. Ray award by Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers for the best undergraduate design project in India. During his tenure in teaching, he has published more than sixty research papers in international peer reviewed journals and also holds several patents.

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.
The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
Date and Time of Exams: 24 October 2021 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.
Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Kharagpur .It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.

- NPTEL team


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