Course on Process Equipment Engineering

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

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