Course content for RP

2015/2016
1. Introduction
to
RP,
Lecture contract
2. Background of building
up a chemical plant,
choosing a plant design
topic, stages in plant
design
3. Determination of Plant
Capacity
and
Plant
Location
4. Determination of Plant
Lay-out and Plant Area
5. Choosing
Process,
Description
of
the
Process
6. Flow Diagrams
7. Choosing raw materials
8. Choosing
materials
of
construction
9. Choosing equipments
10.Mass balance & energy
balance
11.Utility
1
12.Plant organisation

Available Time
1. 10 August & 12 August
2015
2. 17 August & 19 August
2015
3. 24 August & 26 August
2015
4. 31 August & 2 Sept 2015
5. 7 Sept & 9 Sept 2015
6. 14 Sept & 16 Sept 2015
7. 21 Sept & 23 Sept 2015
8. 28 Sept & 30 Sept 2015
9. 5 Oct & 7 Oct 2015
10.12 Oct & 14 Oct 2015
11.19 Oct & 21 Oct 2015
12.26 Oct & 28 Oct 2015
13.2 Nov & 4 Nov 2015
14.9 Nov & 11 Nov 2015
15.16 Nov & 18 Nov 2015
16.23 Nov & 25 Nov 2015
Team teaching:

Time Table
Date

Topic

Lectur
er

10 Aug & 12
Aug

Introduction to Plant
Design,
Lecture
contract: English class,
Syllabus, Time Table,
Evaluation
system,
Types of design, What
is Plant Design, The
purpose of construing
Plant
Design,
Preliminary Design vs
Plant Design, Sources
of
information,
References.

TKD

17 Aug & 19
Aug

Background of building
up a chemical plant,
Choosing
a
plant
design topic, Stages in
plant design.

HD

24 Aug & 26
Aug

Determination of Plant
Capacity
and
Plant
Location.

HD

31 Aug & 2
Sept

Determination of Plant
Lay-out, Estimation of
Plant Area.

HD

7 Sept & 9
Sept

Choosing
Process
(loss-benefit,
batchcontinue,
simplecomplicated,
easydifficult, cheap-costly,
safe-dangerous,
efficient-inefficient,
pure-roughly,
raw
materials, construction
materials,
environmental
considerations,
etc),
Description
of
the
Process

HD

14 Sept & 16
Sept

Flow Diagrams: Block

Diagrams, PEFD, P&I
Diagrams,
Technical
Drawings,
3-D
maquettes.

HD

No

Choosing

raw

Time Table (continued)

Date

Topic

Lectur
er

28 Sept & 30
Sept

Choosing materials of
construction: technical
considerations,
physical & chemical
properties,
economic
view, durability, safety,
environmental
considerations, etc.

HD

5 Oct & 7 Oct MID Semester

No

10

11

12

13

14

15

HD

12 Oct & 14
Oct

Choosing equipments:
main
equipments
(reference:
Flow
Diagrams,
PEFD),
logical
process
and
flow.

TKD

19 Oct & 21
Oct

Mass Balance & Energy

Balances:
simple
without
chemical
reaction, with chemical
reaction,
recycle,
purge,
simultaneous
with energy balance,
with phase change,
isothermal, adiabatic,
with heating/cooling.

TKD

26 Oct & 28
Oct

Utility: water, steam,

electricity,
fuel,
compressed air, inert
gas.

TKD

2 Nov & 4
Nov

Plant
organisation:
man
power,
fair
position,
logical
job/position,
adn
responsibility.

TKD

9 Nov & 11
Nov

Equipments
design,
Equipments
specification:
pumps,
reactors, separators

TKD

16 Nov & 18
Nov

Economic analysis &

FW formate: ACF, POT,
ROR,
DCF-ROR,
NPOTLP,
TCS,
BEP,
specific
assignment

TKD