PROCESS EQUIPMENT DESIGN
SHABINA KHANAM TYPE OF COURSE : New | Core | UG
Department of Chemical Engineering COURSE DURATION : 12 Weeks (18 Jan' 21 - 09 Apr' 21)
IIT Roorkee EXAM DATE : 24 Apr 2021
PRE-REQUISITES : Basic knowledge of Heat Transfer and Mass transfer
INTENDED AUDIENCE : Undergraduate students of Chemical Engineering. However, this course will also be
helpful for those who have substantial industrial experience while working in chemical processes and
designing process equipment.
INDUSTRIES APPLICABLE TO : Any chemical process plant
COURSE OUTLINE :
Chemical process plants include a number of important equipment such as reactors, distillation columns,
absorbers, heat exchangers, evaporators, crystallizers, etc. Design of such equipment should be carried out a priory
to set-up a process plant and thus, it is the basic step in a chemical process. The present course enables one to
learn about the complete process design of Heat Exchanger, Condenser, Reboiler, Crystallizer,
Evaporator, Packed column and Distillation column. Further, mechanical design of distillation column is also
illustrated in this course.
ABOUT INSTRUCTOR :
The instructor is working as Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering Department of IIT Roorkee. She has
completed B.Tech degree from AMU Aligarh, Aligarh in 2000 and M.Tech and Ph.D. degree from IIT Roorkee in
2002 and 2007, respectively. Her major fields of study are Process Integration, Energy and Mass Conservation
and Modeling and Simulation of Chemical Processes. She has almost 9 years experience in teaching and
research. During this period she has supervised 7 Ph.D. and 24 M.Tech. theses. At present 1 Ph.D and 1 M.Tech
theses are in pipe line. She has published 35 and 29 research papers in different refereed journals and
conferences, respectively. She has taught the proposed course seven times in her 13 years teaching career.
COURSE PLAN :
Week 1: Introduction, Classification of exchangers-1, Classification of exchangers-2, Basic design
parameters-1, Basic design parameters-2
Week 2: Double pipe exchanger-1, Double pipe exchanger-2, Double pipe exchanger-3, Types of Shell
and Tube exchangers (S&TE), Tubes and Shell-1
Week 3: Tubes and Shell-2, S&TE design-Kerns method-1, S&TE design-Kerns method-2, S&TE
design-Kerns method-3, S&TE design-Kerns method-4
Week 4: S&TE design-Kerns method-5, S&TE design-Bells method-1, S&TE design-Bells method-2,
S&TE design-Bells method-3, S&TE design-Bells method-4
Week 5: S&TE design-Bells method-5, Condenser design-1, Condenser design-2, Condenser design-3,
Condenser design-4
Week 6: Condenser design-5, Reboiler design-1, Reboiler design-2, Reboiler design-3, Reboiler
design-4
Week 7: Reboiler design-5, Reboiler design-6, Reboiler design-7, Evaporator design-1, Evaporator
design-2
Week 8: Evaporator design-3, Evaporator design-4, Evaporator design-5, Crystallizer design-1,
Crystallizer design-2
Week 9: Crystallizer design-3, Crystallizer design-4, Packed column design-1, Packed column
design-2, Packed column design-3
Week 10: Packed column design-4, Distillation column (process design)-1, Distillation column (process
design)-2, Distillation column (process design)-3, Distillation column (process design)-4
Week 11: Distillation column (process design)-5, Distillation column (process design)-6, Distillation
column (process design)-7, Distillation column (mechanical design)-1, Distillation column
(mechanical design)-2
Week 12: Distillation column (mechanical design)-3, Distillation column (mechanical design)-4,
Distillation column (mechanical design)-5, Distillation column (mechanical design)-6,
Distillation column (mechanical design)-7
