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 basic step in a chemical process. Mechanical design of equipment addresses the stress and strain produced in different parts of the equipment such as shell, head, support, etc. due to operating conditions of the process. The success and failure of the process depends on how perfectly stress and strain are considered while designing. Thus, the present course enables one to learn about the mechanical design of chemical process equipment.
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Undergraduate students. However, this course will also be helpful for those who have substantial industrial experience while working in chemical processes and designing process equipment.
CORE/ELECTIVE: Core course
UG/PG: UG
PREREQUISITES: Nil
INDUSTRY SUPPORT: Any chemical process plant
1129 students have enrolled already!!
ABOUT THE 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 10 years experience in teaching and research. During this period she has supervised 3 Ph.D. and 19 M.Tech. theses. At present 5 Ph.D and 3 M.Tech theses are in pipe line. I have published 29 and 28 research papers in different refereed journals and conferences, respectively. I have taught the proposed course six times in my 10 years teaching career.
COURSE LAYOUT:
Week 1 : Introduction,Stress and Strain Relationship,Terminologies,Design of Shell Week 2 : Design of Heads,Compensation for Opening Week 3 : L/D ratio of vessel,Design of Flanges Week 4 : Design of Support,Vessel under external pressure,Vessel under very high pressure
SUGGESTED READING MATERIALS:
I.S.:2825-1969, “Code for Unfired Pressure Vessels”, 1969.2. Brownell L. E. and Young H. E., “Process Equipment Design”, John Wiley, 2004.3. Bhattacharya B. C., “Introduction of Chemical Equipment Design”, CBS Publisher, 2003.4. Moss D. R., ”Pressure Vessel Design Manual”, 3rd Ed., Gulf, 2004.5. Megyesy E.F., "Pressure Vessel Handbook", 12th Ed., Pressure Vessel Publishing, 2001.6. Mahajani V.V. and Umarji S.B., “Joshi's Process Equipment Design” Laxmi Publications Pvt. Ltd. 2016.
CERTIFICATION EXAM :
The exam is optional for a fee.
Date and Time of Exams: March 31 2019(Sunday). 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.
CERTIFICATION:
Final score will be calculated as : 25% assignment score + 75% final exam score
25% assignment score is calculated as 25% of average of Best 3 out of 4 assignments
E-Certificate will be given to those who register and write the exam and score greater than or equal to 40% final score. 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 Roorkee.It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.
