Process Equipment Design

(2ME602)
 Process Equipment Design
Course Objectives :
1. To prepare the students to succeed as designer in process
industry/technical profession.

2. To provide students with a sound foundation in Process

equipment design required to solve the problems in process
industry.

3. To train the students with good design engineering breadth

required for safe and efficient design, construction, installation,
inspection, testing and certification of unfired pressure vessels.

4. To aware the students about rules and regulations related to the

operational safety of process equipment.
 Process Equipment Design
Course Outcome :
 Process Equipment Design
Assessments :
Teacher Assessment:
Two components of In Semester Evaluation (ISE), One Mid
Semester Examination (MSE) and one End Semester Examination
(ESE) having 20%, 30% and 50% weights respectively.

ISE 1 and ISE 2 are based on assignment/declared test/quiz/seminar

etc.
MSE: Assessment is based on 50% of course content (Normally first
three modules)
ESE: Assessment is based on 100% course content with 60 -70%
weightage for course content (normally last three modules )
 Process Equipment Design
Course Contents
Module 1: 4 Hrs.
Introduction, types and classification of equipments used in process
industry, General design procedure. Materials of construction and
corrosion prevention.
Module 2: 8 Hrs.
Design of pressure vessels- Materials, Design parameters, Design criteria,
Codes for pressure vessel design, Design of vessel components,
cylindrical pressure vessels under combined loading, Nozzles and flange
connections to pressure vessels, Fabrication process and weld
preparation for vessel, Inspection and testing of pressure vessels.
Module 3: 6 Hrs.
High pressure vessels, construction features, Stresses in thick walled
shells, Multi-shell construction, shrink fit construction, stresses in shrink
fit construction, optimum design, Support design for pressure vessels .
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Course Contents
Module 4: 8 Hrs.
Storage vessels and tanks, Fixed roof storage tanks, Variable volume tanks-
vapor lift type and floating roof type, Accessories of storage tanks, column
supported storage tanks, Reaction vessel-heating systems of reaction
vessels, Design and construction of jackets
Module 5: 7 Hrs.
Types of heat exchangers and construction features, design of heat
exchangers, Arrangements of tubes, baffles, heads of heat exchangers.
Evaporators and crystallizers construction features
Module 6: 7 Hrs.
Agitators, centrifugal machines, Filters and dryers used in process
industries , Process hazards and safety in the process industry.
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Module wise Measurable Students Learning Outcomes :
Students should be able to
1. Recognize the types of equipment used in the process industry and their
general procedure of design.
2. Design pressure vessels and its corresponding component using BIS and
ASME codes of pressure vessels.
3. Design High pressure vessels and its corresponding components using BIS
and ASME codes of pressure vessels.
4. Design storage and reaction vessels and its corresponding components
using BIS and ASME codes .
5. Design heat exchangers, evaporators and crystallizers required for process
industry.
6. Differentiate the types of agitators, centrifugal machines, dryers and filters
and their design and maintenance. Students will also demonstrate ability
to design process equipment with to avoid process hazards.
 Process Equipment Design
Textbooks:
V. V. Mahajani and S. B. Umbrani, Process Equipment
Design, Macmillan Publishing India Ltd., Fourth edition,
2009.
Bieuro of Indian standard Code for unfired pressure vessels
IS:2825, Indian Standard Institution ,Revised Edition.

References:
Brownell L. E. and Young H., Process Equipment Design,
John Willey Publication, First Edition, 2004.
J. F. Harvey, Pressure vessel design3rd edition, 2004.