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Equipment Design
Introduction
ERLAURITO
LDBPESTANO
ChE Design
ChE Design is a creative process whereby
an innovative solution for a problem is
conceived
Design occurs when a possible answer
for a present or projected need or
desire by people or industry has been found.
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Step by Step ChE Plant Design
1. Design Objective Produce a useful product
from a given raw material
2. Process Design Development & Detailed Flow
Diagrams
3. Material and Energy Balance
4. Selection and Design of Equipment
5. Economic Evaluation
6. Manufacturing and Plant Layout
7. Safety and Environmental considerations
8. Putting up of plant and Start-up

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Equipment Design
SELECTION
and
SIZING
of
EQUIPMENT
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Equipment Design
Process equipment
proprietary
custom-designed or fabricated


Equipment Design Steps
1. Selection of Equipment
Equipment Design Course:
Isolate the equipment
Heat Transfer Equipment
Mass Transfer Equipment
Mechanical Separation Equipment
Storage or Pressure Vessel
Chemical Reactor
Selection Criteria (arbitrary / heuristics / Rule of Thumb)
Specific type of equipment / Sinott / Walas
Capacity / Feedstock or product rates / composition/
Continuous/Batch
Material of construction / Sinott / Peters &Timm / Perry
Operating Conditions - Pressure / Max and Min Temp

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Equipment Design Steps
2. Sizing of Equipment (for calculation)
Calculation of Missing Flowrates
Material Balance
Energy Balance
Equipment size parameter
Theoretical Equations
Short-cut/ heuristics methods Summary, Walas
Equipment auxiliaries design parameters
Short cut equations / nomographs Rules of
Thumb
Equipment Specification Sheet - Walas
3. Detailed Design Diagram

Types of Driers
Criteria for the selection of equipment depends
on the process