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The document outlines the course outcomes, prerequisites, and syllabus for a process design course. Key outcomes include understanding process flow sheets, economic analysis, and optimizing design conditions. The syllabus covers fundamental concepts, flow sheet synthesis, cost estimation, and optimization techniques relevant to process engineering.

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Course Handout Plant Design & Economics

The document outlines the course outcomes, prerequisites, and syllabus for a process design course. Key outcomes include understanding process flow sheets, economic analysis, and optimizing design conditions. The syllabus covers fundamental concepts, flow sheet synthesis, cost estimation, and optimization techniques relevant to process engineering.

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Course Outcomes (COs), Course-prerequisites, Course Syllabus


a. Course Outcomes (COs)
CO1 Understand the basic concepts of process flow sheet formulation
CO2 Evaluate the detailed process design
CO3 Know the economic analysis of the overall process
CO4 Correlate the design with equipment cost
CO5 Find the best optimum condition used in the design
CO6 Analyze the existing process plant performance

b. Course-prerequisites: Basic knowledge in the subjects of fluid mechanics, heat transfer,


mass transfer, chemical process calculations, mathematics and physics are needed.
c. Course Syllabus
UNIT-I
Basic concepts: General design considerations, Process design development, Layout of plant
items, Flow sheets and PI diagrams, Economic aspects and Optimum design, Practical
considerations in design and engineering ethics, Degrees of freedom analysis in interconnected
systems, Direct and Indirect costs.

UNIT-II
Synthesis of flow sheet: Propositional logic and semantic equations, Deduction theorem,
Algorithmic flow sheet generation using P-graph theory, Sequencing of operating units,
Feasibility and optimization of flow sheet using various algorithms viz, Solution Structure
Generation (SSG), Maximal Structure Generation (MSG), Simplex, Branch-and-bound etc.

UNIT-III
Factors affecting Investment and production costs, Estimation of capital investment and total
product costs, Interest, Time value of money, Break-even analysis, Taxes and Fixed charges,
Salvage value, Methods of calculating depreciation, Profitability, Alternative investments and
replacements, Cost and Asset Accounting; Cost Estimation; Interest and Investment Costs; Taxes
and Insurance; Depreciation; Profitability, Alternative Investments and Replacement; Illustrative
Case Study in Process Equipment Design and Costing of Equipment in each of the following
categories: Material Transfer, Handling and Treatment Equipment Heat Transfer Equipment:
Shell and tube heat exchangers (Kern and Bell-Delaware design methods), Plate heat exchangers,
Evaporators, Mass Transfer Equipment: Absorption/Stripping columns (packed/tray),
Multicomponent distillation column (Fenske-Underwood-Gilliland correlations), Reactors:
choice of reactors, non-isothermal reactors, reactor configuration, inter stage heating/cooling,
multi-tubular reactors, catalyst deactivation.

UNIT-IV
Optimum production rates in plant operation, Optimum batch cycle time applied to evaporator
and filter press, Economic pipe diameter, Optimum insulation thickness, Optimum cooling water
flow rate and optimum distillation reflux ratio.
Course Objectives:
 To study the basics of process flow diagram formulation
 To know the detailed-estimate design procedure
 To acquire basic understanding of design parameters
 To understand the process design and development
 To understand the concepts of economic analysis of the process
 To understand the need of optimized design

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