Course objectives:
- To develop analyzing alternative processes for manufacturing a product and selecting the most suitable one on the basis of technical, economic, social and environmental considerations
- To teach methods for the detailed design of heat exchangers, distillation and absorption columns
- To introduce procedure for the selection of various minor process equipment
- To develop skills to design of plant layout and engineering flow diagrams
- To teach techniques of evaluating project profitability to teach student applications of the mathematical tools and empirical relations to design and compare selected major chemical engineering equipments e.g. Distillation, reactor, heat exchange and absorption.
Learning outcomes:
The students will be able to:
- Analyze, synthesize and design processes for manufacturing products commercially
- apply techniques and knowledge acquired in other courses such as thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer, fluid mechanics, instrumentation and control to design heat exchangers, plate and packed columns, and engineering flow diagrams
- recognize the limitations of available design data and methods
- recognize the need for practical rules of thumb (heuristics) to evaluate and select process equipment including fluid and solid handling equipment, storage vessels, and reactors
- Recognize economic, construction, safety, operability and other constraints on design.
- work effectively in teams, communicate effectively both orally and in writing, and learn independently
- Estimate fixed and working capitals, and operating costs for process plants
- Evaluate the profitability of process industry projects using measures such as ROI, NPV and DCFR
- Analyse market potential for process industry products and forecast their demand and selling price.
- To develop analyzing alternative processes for manufacturing a product and selecting the most suitable one on the basis of technical, economic, social and environmental considerations
- To teach methods for the detailed design of heat exchangers, distillation and absorption columns
- To introduce procedure for the selection of various minor process equipment
- To develop skills to design of plant layout and engineering flow diagrams
- To teach techniques of evaluating project profitability to teach student applications of the mathematical tools and empirical relations to design and compare selected major chemical engineering equipments e.g. Distillation, reactor, heat exchange and absorption.
Learning outcomes:
The students will be able to:
- Analyze, synthesize and design processes for manufacturing products commercially
- apply techniques and knowledge acquired in other courses such as thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer, fluid mechanics, instrumentation and control to design heat exchangers, plate and packed columns, and engineering flow diagrams
- recognize the limitations of available design data and methods
- recognize the need for practical rules of thumb (heuristics) to evaluate and select process equipment including fluid and solid handling equipment, storage vessels, and reactors
- Recognize economic, construction, safety, operability and other constraints on design.
- work effectively in teams, communicate effectively both orally and in writing, and learn independently
- Estimate fixed and working capitals, and operating costs for process plants
- Evaluate the profitability of process industry projects using measures such as ROI, NPV and DCFR
- Analyse market potential for process industry products and forecast their demand and selling price.
- Whasic Min (Professor): Taye Zewdu