Course detail

Design and Operation of Chemical Equipment

FSI-FSCAcad. year: 2014/2015

Students who have completed the course will able to design simple pressure vessels, storage tanks and other compo nents of process units.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

6

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Ing. Dušan Vincour, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Process Engineering (ÚPI)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The course objective is to make students familiar with the basic design procedures of process equipment and connecting strength analyses, manufacture and assembly of process equipment.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge from elasticity and strength of structures, theory of materials and details of machines.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course is taught through lectures explaining the basic principles and theory of the discipline. Exercises are focused on practical topics presented in lectures.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Course-unit credit requirements: Active attendance at seminars. The exam has written and oral parts, the student has to prove acquired theoretical and practical knowledge.

Course curriculum

Not applicable.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The course provides students with the basic completed survey about process equipment and their design, used calculation methods and their operational conditions. Special attention is paid to individual procedures used in the European Union.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Active attendance at seminars is checked. The written report has to be worked out when a seminar was missed. This report has to be produced for verification.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Horlock, J.H.:Advanced Gas Turbine Cycles. Prgamon Publishing, London 2003 (EN)
Kadrnožka: Tepelné elektrárny a teplárny,SNTL Praha 1987 (CS)
Schneider, P.: Základy konstruování procesních zařízení. 1999

Recommended reading

Brownell, L. E., and Young, E. H., Process Equipment Design, John Willey, 1966
Křupka, V. - Schneider, P.: Konstrukce aparátů
Schneider, P.: Základy konstruování procesních zařízení

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B2341-3 Bachelor's

    branch B-EPP , 3 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

52 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Richard Nekvasil, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Regulations and standards used for design or process equipment.
Technical regulations used for materials, design and documentation of pressure equipments.
Choice of materials, protection of process equipment against corrosion.
Welding and assembly of process equipment.
Testing of welded joints.
Basic stress analysis of shell structures – membrane state.
Design of circular covers.
Design of flanged joints.
Basic parts and structure details of pressure equipment.
Stress analysis of shell details.
Stress analysis of shell structures by the finite element method.
Theoretical base of pressure equipment details design in accordance with CSN EN standards.
Practical pressure equipment design in accordance with CSN EN standards.

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Tomáš Létal, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Thematic Problems: 1) Examples on using of thin shell membrane theory. 2) Example on stress analyses of simple shell details. 3) Examples on stress analyses used boundary effect theory. 4) Examples on analyses of internal forces at shell details. 5) Examples on design of reinforced rings at connection of shells. 6) to 10) Using of software system PVESS for calculation and design of pressure vessels details. Students will analyse individual tasks.