Courses

Intent

To provide complete knowledge of process equipment engineering, from process preliminary design to commissioning.

Equipment

Storage tank, pressure vessel, heat exchangers, columns, reactors,agitators, finned tube head exchangers, filters, seperators, LPG Bullets,

Codes

API-650, IS 803, ASME Sec VIII Div 1, IS 2825, ASME Sec II with subsection on materials, PD 5500, TEMA, API-660, IS 10987

Curriculum

1. Introduction
   1. PFD and P&ID: How to read them
   2. PDS and MDS: How to prepare them
2. Engineering Codes
   1. ASME: Intent and compliance
   2. Design of various equipment as per ASME
   3. DFA and DBA , relevance to other international codes
   4. Components covered by code
   5. Wind, Seismic effect and local load
   6. TEMA Code
   7. Comparision between ASME and TEMA
   8. SMPV Rules
3. Design
   1. Manual Design
   2. Software driven Design
4. Drawings
   1. Preparation of Drawings
   2. Checking of Drawings
   3. Approval of Drawings
   4. Keeping track of Revisions/Changes
   5. NC and how to deal with them
5. Cost Estimation of Equipment
6. Materials
7. Welding
   1. Sect IX
   2. WPS/PQRIWPQ
   3. Weld Map and records
8. NDT: Brief introduction and Records of NDT
9. Test methods: Test methods and Records of Test methods
10. Painting: Surface preparation and records.
11. Overview of softwares: Aspen HTFS+, HTRI Xchanger, PVElite, COMPRESS, ChemCAD
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12.  PLANTS & SYSTEMS

    12.1.1 Air Drying Plans
    12.1.1 Heatless Dryer
    12.1.2 External Blower Purged
    12.1.3 internal Heater Purged
    12.1.4 No-Loss Purge Type
    12.1.5 Heat of Compression Dryer

    13.  GAS Drying

    13.1.1 Co2 Drying with mixed bed design. Including Liquid CO₂ and Dry Ice Manufacturing

    13-1.2 other gasses like 02, N2, LPG

    14.1 Liquid-Drying
    14.1.2 Organic solvents like benzene, toluene, alcohols, acetone, and many more.

           15.1.1 Vapour Recovery System for Benzene and Other Organic and Petroleum Solvents