Course detail
Design of Process and Power Systems
FSI-KNPAcad. year: 2015/2016
Students will become familiar with the problematics of the designing of process and energy systems applied in engineering offices. From the wide variety of activities that fall within the designing of process and power system the attention of lectures and seminars is focused on the most important areas of technical and technological design and its impact on the environment. Specifically, attention is focused on methods and tools used for the design of process and energy systems in the conceptual design phase and feasibility studies and on the methods and tools used for the design of process and energy systems at the basic design stage of given system and its individual equipment. In the practical part of the course the maximal support of available educational versions of professional software systems is employed for the design of process and energy systems and analysis (e.g. ChemCAD, HTRI, W2E, Excel-VBA, Maple, etc.).
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Department
Learning outcomes of the course unit
2. Mastering the use of professional software systems for designing and related competent practice of process engineer.
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
Active participation in seminars and understanding of problematics.
Classified (graded) credit procedure:
Student skills evaluation takes place in two stages:
1. Written calculation tests. Upon receiving grade E or better from both the test and the semestral paper, a student proceeds to an oral part of exam.
2. Oral part: Following the results of computational tests, student demonstrate related theoretical knowledge in the design by the form of expert discussion with the teacher, from which will result final grade of the student.
Course curriculum
Work placements
Aims
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
The lecture is combined with the practice lesson demonstrating of computerized solution of partial problems.
The students may work in the laboratory also at the agreed time besides regular lessons.
Recommended optional programme components
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Finlayson B. A.; Introduction to Chemical Engineering Computing, John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken, 2006
VDI-Heat Atlas, 2nd edition, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2010
White R. E., Subramanian V. R.; Computational Methods in Chemical Engineering with Maple, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2010
Recommended reading
Kizlink, J.: Technologie chemických látek I. a II. díl, VUT Brno, 2001
Stehlík, P.: Termofyzikální vlastnosti, VUT Brno, 1992
VDI-Gesellschaft Verfahrenstechnik und Chemieingenieurwesen Editor: VDI-Heat Atlas, 2nd. edition, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
Classification of course in study plans
Type of course unit
Lecture
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
2. Introduction to project evaluation - the life stages of the project, legislation, types of documentation. Basics of econ. evaluation of proposals and projects.
3. Simulation of process and power flow sheets and schemes.
4. Stochastic simulations in the feasibility study stage.
5. Modeling and simulation of power schemes - presentation software W2E. Design of power circuits - steam cycle.
6. Designing a complex process for power - waste-to-energy plant in W2E.
7. Interrelation the system and detail design in designing process and energy systems and equipment. Different levels and methods of design and optimization employing through the example of a typical equipment-STHE.
8. The design methods and tools for intensification of STHE for process and energy systems.
9. Design of PTHE for process and energy systems, the design specifics of the modular (block) design of these equipment.
10. Design of combustion equipment for processes and power industry - basics of system design approach and the main principles of the economic design.
11. Design of combustion equipment for processes and power industry - related aspects of the detailed design (heat flux, fluid two-phase flow, fouling of heat transfer surfaces, the wall temperature, material selection).
12. Desig of cooling systems and equipment for process and power industry - principles of system approach, arrangement, performance and characteristics of individual cooling equipment.
13. Design of cooling systems and equipment for process and power industry - detail design principles for specific cooling equipment.
Computer-assisted exercise
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
2. Heat exchanger unit and design of the heat exchanger using simulation software Chemcad.
3. Design of suitable diameter pipe, pressure loss calculation and design of pumps using Chemcad.
4. Chemical reactors, combustion.
5. Simulation of flue gas cleaning process.
6. Using units for a fluid mixture (unit separator and flash).
7. Simulation condensate stabilization unit and design of the heat exchanger.
8. Using a simulation program for obtaining the properties of fluids and mixtures and determining the distillation curve.
9. Binary distillation using Chemcad.
10. Multicomponent distillation, determining the diameter and height of the distillation column, the determination of pressure loss, determine investment and operating costs.
11. Simulation of waste-to-energy plant.
12. The taught topics repetition on simple and illustrative examples.
13. Final test.