Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

PCE 502 — Process Design of Petrochemical plants II

2 units · PCE department course · Nigerian universities

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What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

manually design and scale-up jacketed vessels and shell-and-tube heat exchangers
use pinch analysis to targeting minimum energy requirement for a process
design heat exchanger networks with minimum energy target
use computer-aided process design
scale-up pumps and pipe networks
design and carry out plant layouts using computer software;
design in group simple petrochemical plant with manual and computer software; * It is expected that 2hrs every week should be used by students to learn how to use software such as CHEMCAD, HYSYS for simple calculations based on the content

Course contents

Reasons for scale-up and basic principles. Heat exchanger system. Design and scale-up of jacketed vessels and shell-and-tube heat exchangers. Fluid flow system: scale-up of pumps and pipe networks for laminar and turbulent flow Liquid-mixing systems. General principles of scale-up and the use of pilot plant data. Optimization of plant dimensions, operating conditions, and the economics of alternatives. Plant layout of petrochemical plant. Design codes and standards, design information, and databases for heat exchanger designs. Plant Costing. Computer software packages required (ASPEN HYSYS, ASPEN PLUS, PV ELITE). PRE: PCE 413

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PCE 502 — Process Design of Petrochemical plants II

What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

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