PM3601 Refinery Process Design Syllabus:

PM3601 Refinery Process Design Syllabus – Anna University Regulation 2021

OBJECTIVE:

 To get acquainted with process design of distillation columns involving multicomponent and complex mixtures. To learn methodologies practiced in rating and designing heat transfer equipment used in refining and process industry.

UNIT I MULTICOMPONENT DISTILLATION

Dew point and bubble point for multi component mixtures. Design of multi component distillation column, Number of variables, Selection of key components, Selection of column pressure, Feed condition, Plate-to-plate calculations, Empirical short cut methods, Introduction to rigorous solution procedures.

UNIT II PETROLEUM REFINERY DISTILLATION

TBP, EFV, ASTM distillation curves and their relevance, Material balance and flash zone calculations for petroleum refinery distillation columns, Pump around and pump back calculations,
Overall energy requirements, Estimation of number of equilibrium stages, Design using Packie charts and Watkins method, Introduction to rigorous solution procedure based on pseudo components.

UNIT III COLUMN DESIGN

Process design of distillation towers. Flooding charts. Trays and packings. Vacuum devices. Pressure drops. Height, diameter, supports.Piping requirements. Aspects of mechanical design. A
typical P&ID for a distillation column.

UNIT IV FIRED HEATERS

Heat load calculations for furnace heaters used in crude refining, Basic constructional features, Different furnace types, Review of factors to be considered in the design of fired heaters, Introduction to manual calculations methods.

UNIT V PUMPS AND COMPRESSORS

Types of pumps and compressors. Selection criteria. Power rating calculations based on process duty. Use of operating curves of centrifugal pump. NPSHR and NPSHA. Pump Cavitation. Surge problem in compressors.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

OUTCOME:

On successful completion of this course, the students will be able to
CO1: Gain the knowledge on the various types of heat exchanger design.
CO2: apply the concepts involved auxiliary equipments like reboilers and condenser, cooling towers
CO3: Understanding the skill in thermal design of heat transfer equipment like shell and tube, Double pipe heat Exchangers and evaporators, and assessing thermal efficiency of the
above equipment in practice.
CO5: Evaluating design of distillation, Extraction and absorption columns.
CO6: Design the pumps, fans and compressors

TEXT BOOKS:

1. Van Winkle M., “Distillation”, McGraw Hill, 1967.
2. Watkins, “Petroleum Refinery Distillation”, McGraw Hill, 1993
3. Sinnott R. K., “Coulson and Richardson’s Chemical engineering”, Vol. 6, Third Edition, Butter Worth-Heinemann, 1999.
4. Kern D. Q., “Process Heat Transfer”, McGraw Hill, 1965.
5. Cao Eduardo, “Heat Transfer in Process Engineering”, McGraw Hill,2010