The life of a chemical plant is more than 50 years from construction to the disposal, and the management through the life cycle is necessary. Therefore, it becomes important to design process structure, process operation and process control structure logically in the conceptual and preliminary process design phases. To realize such logical process design, modularization of the objective process becomes the key technology. In this cause, students learn methodology to modularize process, operation and control using a simple commercial process example, and acquire the basic ability to engineering design of chemical processes.
At the end of this course, students will be able to:
1)Perform the operational design in the conceptual design stage of the chemical process, the process design based on the operation demand and a basic control structure design.
2)Acquire the ability to modularize operation and process control, and to harmonize them for the operational design and process control structural design.
Conceptual process design, Block Flow Diagram, Process Flow Diagram, Operational Design, Modularization
✔ Specialist skills | Intercultural skills | Communication skills | Critical thinking skills | ✔ Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
A lecture is carried out every theme. I assign the practice problems in each time and confirm the understanding of contents.
Course schedule | Required learning | |
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Class 1 | Conceptual Process Design Overview | Understanding of the conceptual process design process in the overall process design process. |
Class 2 | Reaction System Design and Critical Factors | Identifying the critical factors for main reaction, sub-reaction, abnormal reaction, including corrosion and fire and explosion. |
Class 3 | Process Block Flow Diagram Design | Acquiring the ability to configure the process and evaluate the process structure. |
Class 4 | Process Flow Diagram Design | Acquiring the ability to design process units and evaluate the result of design. |
Class 5 | Heat Exchanger Network Design | Acquire the ability to perform thermodynamic analysis and synthesize the heat exchanger network. |
Class 6 | Process Behavior and Control Structural Design | Acquire the ability to perform process sensitivity analysis and configure process control structures. |
Class 7 | Start-up/Shut-down Operational Design | Acquire the ability to generate start-up/shut-down operation and design necessary process structure. |
Class 8 | Process Hazard Analysis and Operational Design for Abnormal Situation | Acquire the ability to perform process hazard analysis (PHA) and design operational design for abnormal situations on the basis of the result of PHA. |
All materials used in class can be found on OCW-i.
R. Turton, R.C.Bailie, W.B.Whiting, J.A.Shaeiwitz, “Analysis, Synthesis, and Design of Chemical Processes,” Prentice Hall
R. Smith, “Chemical Process –Design and Integration-,” Wiley
J. M. Douglas, “Conceptual Design of Chemical Processes,” McGraw Hill
Understanding of process design process and conceptual process design methods is evaluated. Students’ course scores are based on final exams (60%) and exercise problems (40%)
No prerequisites are necessary, but enrollment in the related courses is desirable
fuchino[at]chemeng.titech.ac.jp
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