ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician, English
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Chemistry Engineering
Areas: Chemical Engineering
Center Higher Technical Engineering School
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
This subject is oriented towards the design of chemical processes, which is one of the main professional activities in which a chemical engineer will participate. Although the design of a chemical plant is multidisciplinary in its detail, the chemical engineer is the one who knows to determine their general characteristics in targets and performance and is, among other engineers, who can implement, coordinate and combine the engineering principles necessary for its design and construction, along with others, such as economic, environmental and health and safety principles required in industrial practice.
In this course, the fundamental design criteria are established, from conception and development of the project to completion and commissioning of the plant in the field. Within this course the student will learn to specify installations and mechanical equipment according to its application requirements. Students will receive a strong focus on their specific skills as an engineer for the design of chemical plants.
The contents of this course are:
Basic Project: Approach, market research, manufacturing, distribution units and buildings. Economic evaluation. Organizational structure of an industrial facility. Construction project: stages of detailed design phase, development of calculations. Selection of machinery in the chemical industry. Legislation and Standards. Mechanical design.
It has been structured in two sections:
SECTION I. PROJECT
UNIT 1. General concepts: Types of projects. Design general considerations and stages. Basic engineering elements. Market and Technical viability Studies. Specific safety and environmental considerations.
UNIT 2. Project description: Project documents: Memory, Plans, Technical Specifications. Budget. Other documents. Edition and Presentation.
UNIT 3. Economic evaluation of projects. Types and distribution costs. Economic evaluation: cash flows, profitability. VAN. TIR. Sensitivity analysis.
SECTION II. DESIGN OF FACILITIES
UNIT 4. Materials selection and corrosion prevention: Types of engineering materials. Properties for design. Selection criteria. Standards and Regulations.
UNIT 5. Design of process vessels. Standards. Mechanical design of tanks, pressure vessels and storage tanks. Costs. Standards and regulations
UNIT 6. Design of separation equipment: Columns. Design. Costs
UNIT 7. Design of equipment for fluid transport: Piping Systems: Materials. Standards and Regulations. Valves. General design issues. Costs for piping and auxiliary systems. Pumps and compressors: mechanical and hydraulic design. Equipment selection. Costs. Standards and regulations.
UNIT 8. Design of equipment for heat transport: Heat exchangers: types. Selection. Hydraulic and mechanical design. Construction materials. Costs. Basic aspects of condensers, evaporators, furnaces and boilers.
Basic
SINNOT, R., TOWLER, G. Chemical Engineering Design. Coulson & Richardson’s Chemical Engineering Volume 6, 6th Ed., Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann (2020), ISBN 9780081025994 and ISBN: 9780081026007 (electronic book)
SINNOT, R., TOWLER, G. Diseño en Ingeniería Química. Serie de Ingeniería Química Coulson & Richardson. Traducción de la 5ª Ed. Ed. Reverté (2012), ISBN 9788429171990
Additional
PETERS, M. S., TIMMERHAUS, K. D., WEST, R. E. Plant Design and Economics for Chemical Engineers. Ed. McGraw Hill (2004), ISBN 9780071240444
PERRY, R. H., GREEN, D. W., MALONEY, J. O. Manual del Ingeniero Químico. Ed. McGraw-Hill (2001) ISBN 84-481-3008-1 (O.C.); 84-481-3342-0 (v.1); 84-481-3343-9 (v.2); 84-481-3344-7 (v.3); 84-481-3345-5 (v.4)
CHEREMISINOFF, N. P., Handbook of chemical processing equipment, Ed. Butterworth-Heinemann (2000) ISBN 0-7506-7126-2
BAUSBACHER. E., Process plant layout and piping design, Prentice Hall (1993) ISBN 9780131386297
SEIDER, W. R., SEADER, J. D., LEWIN, D. R., WIDAGDO, S., Product and process design principles, Wiley (2010) ISBN 9780470414415
Specific
CI.7- Knowledge of the principles of machines and mechanisms
CI.8.- Knowledge and use of the principles of strength of materials.
CI.12.- Knowledge and skills to organize and manage projects. Knowledge of the organizational structure and functions of a project office.
General
CG.1 Ability to write, sign and develop projects in the field of industrial chemical engineering aimed at the construction, modification, repair, maintenance, demolition, manufacture, installation, assembly or operation of structures, mechanical equipment, energy facilities, electrical and electronic installations, installations and industrial plants and manufacturing processes and automation.
CG.2 Capacity for management of the activities under the engineering projects described in the previous section.
CG.5. Knowledge to perform measurements, calculations, assessments, appraisals, surveys, studies, reports, work plans and similar work
CG.6. Ability to handle specifications, regulations and mandatory standards.
Transversal
CT.7. Decision making
CT.13. Ability to communicate with experts from other areas
CT.13. Ability to put knowledge into practice
CT.14. Adaptation to new scenarios.
CT.17. Creativity
The teaching will be developed as follows according to the following distribution of teaching hours (approximate): Section I, lectures 17 hours and seminars 4 hours; Section II, lectures 20 h and seminars 8 h.
Theoretical contents will be presented in lectures and exercises will be solved in seminars. It is an obligation to perform a basic process design in group (4-5 students), to be defined at the beginning of the course. Students of Master in Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering will collaborate in management tasks. A written basic project document will be delivered.
One of the group tutorials (1 h), that will be developed by the end October or early November, will be for analysing and evaluation of basic aspects of design project. The other tutorial will be related to a work about professional ethic. Both of them are mandatory.
There will be a technical visit, if possible, related to the subject contents.
Competences to be developed during lectures and project design in group: CI.12, CG.1, CG.2, CG.5, CG.6, CT.7, CT.11, CT.14, CT.17.
Competences to be developed during problem resolution seminars: CI.7, CI.8, CG.5, CT.13.
A Learning Management system will be used as a tool to provide information about teaching during the course and supplementary materials for study. Some of the problems will be made by means of a spreadsheet (Excel) or other computer tool available (ASPEN Hysys).
The assessment of student learning will be carried out on the basis of a design project and group problem solving. Additionally, students will take an exam with theoretical questions and problem solving. The competences to be evaluated are the following:
Design project in group: CI.12, CG.1, CG.2, CG.5, CG.6, CT.7, CT.11, CT.14, CT.17
Resolution of exercises: CI.7, CI.8, CG.5, CT.13
Exam: CI.8, CG.1, CG.5, CT.13
The student's score is an average of the yield obtained in the exam (50% of score), project design (35% of score), activities (10% of score) and group tutorial of ethical proffesional (5%).
The student must obtain a minimum grade of 35% in both the exam and the project.
Failure to pass the subject at the First Opportunity, the student will be assessed again at the Second Opportunity of the exam and/or Project. To save some part, it must be approved, that is, it is not enough reaching the minimum.
It will be considered NOT PRESENTED, the student who has not done any of the mandatory items (group tutorials, design project, visit in the case that it can be done and exam).
The activities for continous assesment, except for the project design, will be kept for the two oportunities of the course.
In cases of fraudulent practices, the “Normativa de avaliación do rendemento académico dos estudantes e de revisión das cualificacións” will be applied.
Lectures, 37; Personal work, 45; ECTS, 3,3
Seminars: 12; Personal work, 14; ECTS, 1
Group tutorials: 1; Personal work, 4 ECTS, 0,2
Individual tutorials: 2; Personal work, 8; ECTS, 0,4
Exam: 5; Personal work, 22; ECTS, 1,1
For the study and understanding of this subject, it is important that students have, among others, passed the courses of: Process Engineering, Fundamentals of machines and resistance of materials and Industrial production systems.
Teaching is conducted in Spanish, although any sources of information will also be handled in English
The acquisition of computers with the MS Windows environment is recommended, since other platforms, for example, do not support the ASPEN HYSYS software.
Maria Sonia Freire Leira
Coordinador/a- Department
- Chemistry Engineering
- Area
- Chemical Engineering
- Phone
- 881816758
- mariasonia.freire [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary PhD professor
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