Subjects Taught
Chemical Process Equipment Design
Module 1: Design of fluid transport equipments, design of piping networks, design of pressure vessels-tall vessels, design of skirt supports, lug supports and saddle supports for vessels.
Module 2: Process and mechanical design of heat exchanging equipments- heat exchangers, evaporators and driers.
Module 3: Process and mechanical design of tray and packed distillation and absorption columns.
Computer-Aided Design
Module 1: Integrated process design – design guidelines, pinch point analysis, residue curve maps, process synthesis and integration, process synthesis by hierarchical approach, basis of design, data ollection, design variables, snow ball effects, multiple steady states,
Module 2: Synthesis of separation systems – separation system design, vapor recovery and gas separation, liquid separation,simple distillation, complex separations – azeotropic distillation, reactive distillation, pressure swing distillation,heat integration, challenges in the design of future separation processes
Module 3:Process Simulation, steady state dynamic simulation of simple distillation unit using aspen plus- open loop dynamics and control structure synthesis, closed loop dynamics, introduction to process engineering packages and simulation of simple distillation unit using computer programming, reactor/ separator/ recycle systems,introduction to plant wide control
Petroleum Refining Operations and Processes
Module 1: Indian petroleum industry , prospects and future , composition of crude and classification of crude oil, evaluation of crude oil and testing of petroleum products, refining of petroleum, atmospheric and vacuum distillation, thermal cracking, visbreaking, coking – catalytic cracking (FCC), hydrocracking, air blowing of bitumen.
Module 2: Production and treatment of LPG, LNG technology, sweetening operations for gases, product treatment processes, Catalytic reforming
Module 3: Isomerization, alkylation and polymerization-process types, chemistry, commercial processes, catalysts, cracking of naphtha and gas for the production of ethylene, propylene isobutylene and butadiene, production of acetylene from methane, production of petrochemicals like, ethylene glycol, acrylonitrile, phthalic anhydride, maleic anhydride, phenol, acetone, methanol, formaldehyde, acetaldehyde and, production of carbon black.
Mathematical Methods in Chemical Engineering
Module 1:Solution techniques for linear algebraic equations, Solution of sparse linear, solution techniques for non-linear single variable algebraic equation, solution techniques for multi-variable algebraic equations, solving linear and non-linear algebraic equations evolving in chemical engineering using MATLAB.
Module 2: Solution techniques for ordinary differential equations, systems of ordinary differential equations; finite difference methods, finite element methods, solving ordinary differential equations evolving in chemical engineering using MATLAB
Module 3: Solution techniques for parabolic differential equations, orthogonal functions and Sturm-Liouville conditions, finite difference, Finite elements, solving partial differential equations evolving in chemical engineering using MATLAB
Momentum, Heat and Mass transfer
Module 1: Introduction to Transport Processes, Basic Mass, Momentum, and Energy transport processes; micro and macroscopic views; phenomenological laws; driving forces; transport coefficients; Definition of fluxes; conservation principles; dimensionless numbers. Molecular mass transport; binary gaseous diffusion coefficient; diffusion in liquids and solids
Module 2: Momentum Transport and Viscous Flows. Newton‟s law of viscosity; Shell momentum balance and laminar flows. Continuity and equations of change, Navier-Stokes equations. Macroscopic balances for momentum transport, Turbulent flows, Energy Transport: heat flow in one and multi-dimensional geometries; steady-state and transient analytical solutions to heat conduction; heat flow and convection; macroscopic energy balance. Radiative energy transport
Module 3 : Phase change and couple heat and mass transport, Mass Transport in Solid, diffusion through a stagnant gas film, diffusion with heterogeneous chemical reaction, diffusion with homogeneous chemical reaction, diffusion into a falling liquid film and forced– convection mass transfer, diffusion and and chemical reaction inside a porous catalyst, Analogies between heat, mass and momentum and transfer
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