Process design Considerations

Process designs have objectives and constraints, and even a simple process design requires a trade-off among several such factors.

Objectives that a design may strive to include:

• Throughput rate
• Process yield
• Product purity

Constraints include:

• Capital cost
• Available space
• Safety concerns
• Environmental impact and projected effluents and emissions
• Waste production
• Operating and maintenance costs

Other factors that may influence the process design are:

• Reliability
• Redundancy
• Flexibility
• Anticipated variability in feedstock and allowable variability in product.

Unfortunately, there exists a wide gap between the expectations of the industry from the academics and what knowledge is actually imparted during graduation and its effectiveness. Due to high attrition rates or otherwise, the engineering companies are increasingly unwilling to impart the basic training in process design and are instead expecting that the fresh engineering students have prior knowledge in process engineering design. The design courses developed and delivered by us focus on delivering what is industrially relevant. With our wide process engineering experience in chemical, petrochemical and Oil&Gas areas, we know what the exact expectations of the industry are from the chemical engineers to be able to work as Process Engineer. Apart from the best quality of the training that is ensured in this course, it also provides a specific direction for the student to tackle with the 'unknowns' that one can always expect to come across while working on a project.

The knowledge in process design is helpful for process engineers working in the engineering, operations and HSE alike. Similarly, sound knowledge in process engineering design can help the engineers working in supervisory and managerial capacity.

A wide range of topics covers in the course is described below.

• Guidance for interviews

• Introduction to Material and Heat Balance

• Introduction to Process Flow Diagrams (PFD) development

• Line sizing for various services

• Basics of pipe selection and of mechanical design of equipment

• Introduction to Piping and Instrumentation Diagram (P&ID) development

• Introduction to Cause and Effect diagrams (Trip – Interlock schedule) development

• Instrumentation and process control

• Selection, sizing and specifications of various process equipment such as pumps, compressors, distillation columns, heat exchangers and multiphase separators

• Sizing of control valves, restriction orifice plates, pressure relief devices

• Introduction to the contents of Basic Engineering Package (BEP)

• Sizing of various utilities and selection

• Introduction to HAZOP Review

• Special aspects of design of batch and continuous processes

• Introduction to process simulations

• Heat exchanger design

• Vacuum systems

• Introduction to Hazardous area classification

• Process Safeguarding

We invariably end up covering a lot more than the topics listed above. The problem assignments covered during the training are directly relevant to the industry.

Duration:

• Full time batch: Approximately 30 Working days (Except Saturday / Sunday / Public Holidays)
  10 a.m. to  6 p.m.
  

Joining schedule: One can join at any mutually convenient time.

Course fee: Fee for Indian students is Rs. 49,500.

Special package: For our students who join for both PCE-01 and PTCS-01B or 01C at the same time, we can offer these two courses for the fees of only Rs. 65,000 against the otherwise total fees of Rs. 70,000. This benefit can be availed for a limited period.

Special limited period scheme:

Batch schedule: 30 Working days

Fees: Normal total fees for the two courses is Rs. 68,000. Now you stand to take these courses for a total fees of Rs. 55,000, i.e. you realize significant savings of Rs. 13,000. This is applicable only for the enrolments received on or before the 15th of September 2010.

Who can join? Degree or Diploma holders in Chemical Engineering. This course would also be useful for mechanical engineers who have spent significant time in process industry.

Placement Assistance: Being involved in engineering activities ourselves, we can provide full active placement support even after completion of the course.

Registration

Please click here for online Registration/Enquiry Form. Alternatively, you can download the Registration form.

Due to popular demand, we have now introduced an extension to this course by name of PCE-01A. This course will be offered to those who take the course PCE-01 and want to get more insight to producing various Process Engineering deliverables. For more details of this course, please click here.

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