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2019　Advanced Chemical Equipment Design

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Academic unit or major
Graduate major in Chemical Science and Engineering
Instructor(s)
Kubouchi Masatoshi 
Class Format
Lecture     
Media-enhanced courses
Day/Period(Room No.)
Mon1-2(S224)  Thr1-2(S224)  
Group
-
Course number
CAP.C531
Credits
2
Academic year
2019
Offered quarter
3Q
Syllabus updated
2019/9/18
Lecture notes updated
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Language used
English
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Course description and aims

The field of applied chemistry deals with manufacturing chemical products that involve high temperatures and pressures, and corrosive process fluids. It is necessary to build factories, design equipment, and maintain them. While getting a picture of the process as a whole, after getting an understanding of design theory for factories operating under these special conditions, employees are needed not just for designing equipment, but also for receiving equipment, and maintaining and managing it. The instructor will lecture on topics that involve equipment materials in actual factories as well as these kinds of approaches, with students learning in particular through exercises and problems.

Student learning outcomes

[Objectives] By taking this lecture, students will gain an understanding of material mechanics including the plastic zone, necessary for designing chemical equipment that handles high and low temperatures, high pressure and vacuum, or corrosive chemicals. Students will also learn approaches to thermal stress and fracture mechanics. Based on that, students will gain an understanding of design methods for thick cylinder containers, etc., approaches to partial yielding, and approaches to time-dependent fracturing. Students will also learn approaches necessary for corrosion resistance and maintenance, as well as approaches to design, manufacturing, and maintain actual chemical equipment, through a variety of topics on materials for chemical plans.
[Topics]
Students in this lecture will gain an understanding of approaches to designing chemical equipment that operate under special conditions, understand deterioration examples for equipment, and learn the skills to manage equipment in actual environments.

Keywords

elastic‐plastic material, thick-wall vessel, hollow sphere, external pressure vessel, thermal stress, parcial yield, multilayered cylinder, creep, time dependent fracture, fracture mechanics, corrosion, maintenance, degradation, stainless steel, heat-exchanger, material selection, life prediction, non-metallic materials

Competencies that will be developed

✔ Specialist skills Intercultural skills Communication skills Critical thinking skills ✔ Practical and/or problem-solving skills

Class flow

Above 70% to 80% of each lecture in material mechanics and design theory will be devoted to content. For students to develop a strong understanding of the lecture content and how to apply it, exercise problems related to lecture content will be assigned.
Explanations will be given in each lecture of deterioration examples, etc. and the instructor will assign reports related to the lecture content in order to deepen students' understand.

Course schedule/Required learning

  Course schedule Required learning
Class 1 Strength of materials 1; Mechanics of elastic‐plastic material Exercise of mechanics 1; Bordman equation
Class 2 Design 1; design of a thick-wall cylindrical vessel Exercise of design 1; thick-wall cylinder calculation
Class 3 Design 2; design of a hollow sphere and external pressure vessel Exercise of design 2; external pressure vessel design calculation
Class 4 Strength of materials 2; thermal stress Exercise of mechanics 2; thermal stress calculation
Class 5 Design 3; partial yield and design of multilayered cylinder Exercise of design 3; multilayered cylinder design calculation
Class 6 Design 4; creep and other time dependent fracture Exercise of design 4; derivation of stress relaxsation equation
Class 7 Strength of materials 3; fracture mechanics Exercise of mechanics 3; fracture mechanics calculation
Class 8 Design 5; corrosion engineering Exercise of design 5; corrosion rate calculation
Class 9 Design 6; maintenance engineering Exercise of design 6; Bayesian analysis
Class 10 topics on materials for equipment 1; degradation example in chemical plant
Class 11 topics on materials for equipment 2; corrosion resistance of stainless steel
Class 12 topics on materials for equipment 3; degradation example in heat-exchanger
Class 13 topics on materials for equipment 4; material selection in oil and gas plant
Class 14 topics on materials for equipment 1; life prediction of chemical equipment
Class 15 topics on materials for equipment 1; application and degradation example of non-metallic materials in chemical plant

Textbook(s)

Text book specified by the instructor uploaded on OCW

Reference books, course materials, etc.

N/A

Assessment criteria and methods

Students' understanding of material mechanics and design theory are evaluated based on exercises and homework, and chemical equipment design is evaluated based on reports

Related courses

  • CAP.B223 ： Inorganic Chemistry (Materials Science)
  • CAP.C321 ： Chemical Equipment Design

Prerequisites (i.e., required knowledge, skills, courses, etc.)

N/A

Contact information (e-mail and phone)    Notice : Please replace from "[at]" to "@"(half-width character).

kubouchi.m.aa[at]

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