Course detail

Design of Process and Power Systems

FSI-KNPAcad. year: 2025/2026

Students with a practical and modern way will become familiar with the problematics of the designing of process and energy systems currently 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. Linking the theoretical and practical part of the course will be ensured in the maximum extent by using a support of the latest educational version of professional software systems for design of process and energy systems and its individual equipment (eg. ChemCAD, HTRI, etc.).

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. Ing. Zdeněk Jegla, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Process Engineering (ÚPI)

Entry knowledge

Basic knowledge of courses completed in the previous two semesters, especially thermal processes, hydraulic processes, engineering thermodynamics, energy and emissions and construction of process equipment I.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Course-unit credit requirements :
Compulsory and active participation in seminars and understanding of problematice.

Exam:
Student skills evaluation takes place in two stages:
1. Written part: Written tests (points rated). Upon receiving grade E or better from the test, a student proceeds to an oral part of exam.
2. Oral part: Following the results of tests, student demonstrate related theoretical knowledge in the design by the form of expert discussion with the teacher that shows the final evaluation of the student.


Lessons are held in the computer laboratory.
Theoretical parts are combined with the practice lesson demonstrating of computerized solution of partial problems.
Attendance at lectures is recommended. Attendance at seminars is compulsory and checked.

Aims

The aim of the course is to teach students practical technological and dimensional design of essential proces and energy systems and equipment ensuring and influencing by dominant way a function of proces and power plants. It is all about design of systems and equipment for heat and mass transfer with practical and effective utilization of the modern professional software products which are currently used in design offices to support these design activities.
1. Basic overview of the range of design practice of process engineer focusing on techniques, methods and tools for the designing of process and energy systems and their individual equipment.
2. Mastering the use of professional software systems for designing and related competent practice of process engineer.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Cengel, Y. A., Cimbala J.M.; Fluid mechanics: fundamentals and applications, 2nd edition, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, Boston, 2010
Finlayson B. A.; Introduction to Chemical Engineering Computing, John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken, 2006
Kleiber M., Process Engineering, Second Edition, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin, 2020.
Seider W. D., Lewin D. R., Seader J. D., Widago S., Gani R., Ng K. M., Product and Process Design Principles: Synthesis, Analysis and Evaluation, Fourth Edition, John Wiley & Sons Inc., New York, 2017.
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

Green, D., W., Perry, R., H., CHEMICAL ENGINEERS´ HANDBOOK, 8 th editon, Mc Graw-Hill International Editions, Chemical Engineering Series,New York, 2007
Kizlink, J.: Technologie chemických látek I. a II. díl, VUT Brno, 2001
Kleiber M., Process Engineering, Second Edition, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin, 2020.
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

  • Programme N-PRI-P Master's 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. Zdeněk Jegla, Ph.D.

Syllabus

  1. Introduction to the design of process and energy systems and equipment (stages of design, examples of technologies, design tools, software), designing of a double pipe heat exchanger.
  2. Designing shell-and-tube heat exchangers.
  3. Designing basic types of plate heat exchangers.
  4. Considering operational aspects of process and energy equipment (fouling, heat losses) in their design.
  5. Designing a heat transfer equipment with a phase change of one working fluid.
  6. Designing of process and energy heat transfer equipment with phase change of both working fluids.
  7. Introduction to designing combustion equipment for process and power industry.
  8. Conceptual phase of the design of combustion equipment for process and power industry.
  9. Dimensional designing of process tubular fired heaters.
  10. Dimensional designing of water and steam boilers.
  11. Integrated design of process equipment and the trend of modern integrated equipment
  12. Designing agitated (stirred) vessels with heat transfer.
  13. Considering the influence of fluids´ distribution in the design of process and power equipment.

Computer-assisted exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. Zdeněk Jegla, Ph.D.

Syllabus

  1. Introductory practical application of basic equations – design of a double pipe heat exchanger without and with software support.
  2. Design of a shell-and-tube heat exchanger with segmental baffles with software support.
  3. Designing plate heat exchangers without and with software support
  4. Calculation examples considering fouling and heat losses in the design of equipment
  5. Thermal design of condenser with software support.
  6. Balance and thermal design of process evaporator.
  7. Design of fire tube boiler I. - calculation of fuel combustion without and with software support
  8. Design of a fire tube boiler II. – conceptual thermal duty partitioning on individual boiler parts.
  9. Design of a fire tube boiler III. – design of fire tube section and convection sections.
  10. Design of a fire tube boiler IV. – aerodynamic calculation of boiler and stack design.
  11. Integrated design of regenerative heat transfer equipment.
  12. Thermal design of heated agitated (stirred) vessel.
  13. Calculation examples considering influence the fluid distribution in the equipment design, credit.