| 28350 Process Design: Principles and Methods |
| Danish title: Procesdesign: Principper og metoder |
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Language: English ECTS-creditpoints: 10
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Class schedule:
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F3
To be given for the first time in the spring of 2002. |
| Recommended semester: 7th - 9th semester |
| Scope and form: Lectures and exercises with supervision. |
| Evaluation: Approval of coursework/reports
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| Examination: 13-scale |
| Prerequisites: 28010, 28120 |
| Preferred prerequisites: 28320, 28240 |
| Participant limitation: Max. 36 |
| Aim: The objective of the course will be to introduce the students to the principles and methods associated with the various stages of process design life cycle. Process design starts with a business decision to study the feasibility of process alternatives followed by a preliminary design, a conceptual design, and after several more stages, ends with the commissioning of the designed process. In this course, the stages dealing with preliminary design and conceptual design will be covered. In the preliminary design, emphasis will be given on how to generate and evaluate data (information) and on how to make simple calculations for preliminary design decisions and economic analysis. In the conceptual design, emphasis will be given to process integration (such as heat integration), pollution prevention and waste minimization in addition to computer-aided techniques for process synthesis and design. In addition, significance of instrumentation, operability and safety will also be introduced. |
Contents: The course will be divided into two parts. The first part will deal with introduction to process design principles, the stages of the process design life cycle and the preliminary design steps (flowsheet synthesis, equipment sizing / costing, economic evaluation, scheduling of batch operations, distillation sequences, pinch analysis). The second part will deal with conceptual design (advanced process synthesis (such as heat integration, heat exchanger networks, reactor networks, reaction-separation sequences, solvent selection), equipment selection, flowsheet optimization). Emphasis will be given to evaluation of data with respect to process design. Advanced topics such as mass integration, waste minimization, pollution prevention through better design, structural optimization and hazards / safety will also be considered in this part. Special emphasis will be given to solution of synthesis and design problems of interest to the industry.
The lectures in the two sections will be supplemented by case studies highlighting the design principles and the methods and tools used to obtain the design. The methods and tools will include both short-cut hand calculation techniques as well as state of the art computer aided tools (such as commercial simulators and in-house integrated computer aided systems). |
| Remarks: Textbook: "Systematic Methods of Chemical Process Design", L.T. Biegler, I.E. Grossmann, A.W. Westerberg, Prentice-Hall, 1997, ISBN: 0-13-492422-3 |
| Contact: Rafiqul Gani, building 227, (+45) 4525 2882, rag@kt.dtu.dk |
| Department: 028 Department of Chemical Engineering |
| Updated: 13-02-2002 |
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