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.

While the process engineering of chemical, petrochemical and Oil&Gas systems would involve more or less same principles of chemical engineering, the Oil&Gas field differs significantly due to its well established specific terminology and ways of designing. With the advent of several Oil&Gas operators and engineering companies in India and globally, the opportunities in this area have increased multi-folds. Acquiring training in process design with a focus on Oil&Gas industry therefore helps a great deal.

The course broadly covers the following topics. Although some of the topics below may sound similar to the Course PCE-01, the emphasis is on Oil&Gas related issues. Moreover, you can also note the Oil&Gas specific topics.

• Guidance for interviews

• Line sizing for various services

• Basics of pipe selection and of mechanical design of equipment

• Introduction to Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&ID) for various Oil&Gas systems

• Introduction to Cause and Effect diagrams (Trip – Interlock schedule) development including various levels of shutdown

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

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

• Introduction to HAZOP review

• Introduction to Hazardous area classification

• Process Safeguarding

• Gas dew-pointing by gas dehydration, J/T effect and by expander / compressor combination

• Gas sweetening and acid gas handling

• Desalting

• Wellhead desanding

• Fuel gas conditioning

• Wellhead systems

• Overview of pipeline/flowline hydraulics

• Pipelines, pig receivers/launchers

• Slug catchers

• Water injection/disposal

• Introduction to Enhanced oil Recovery (EOR)

• Special aspects of onshore/offshore process engineering

Duration: 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. 75,000.

This course has several topics that are best covered by use of process simulations. If the participant is not comfortable in using Hysys, we strongly recommend to take the course PTCS-01A along with this course so that the quality of the training in the course PCE-02 is not compromised.

Special limited period scheme:

Batch schedule: 30 Working days

Fees: Normal total fees for the two courses PCE-02 and PTCS-01A (Process simulations with Oil&Gas focus) are Rs. 95,000. Now you stand to take these courses for a total fees of Rs. 85,000 only, i.e. you can realize significant savings of Rs. 10,000 by taking these two courses together. 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 or Diploma holders in Chemical Engineers with prior process design experience. Mechanical engineers with suitable prior experience may also take this course.

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

Registration/Enquiry:  

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