Basics in Process Design

Contents

• Course description
• Schedule
• Reading
• Exercises

Course description

This course deals with some of the systems encountered in process design. We use mass- and energy balances to analyse process systems, we model pump and pipe systems, compressor systems, heat exchanger systems and use some basic economic evaluation methods for making process design decisions.

Schedule

• Course schedule for 2014 (pdf) (updated 5-aug-2014)

Reading

Some of the reading is in a compendium while additional reading can be found in books.

• Compendium (pdf) Updated 8-nov-2006
• Example text with pictures for heat exchanger system pinch analysis

More material can be found in an e-book available though the Åbo Akademi University Library. Sinnott, R. K., Chemical Engineering Design, Coulson & Richardson's Chemical Egnineering, vol 6., fourth edition, 2006.

Exercises

There are seven compulsory exercises. All have to be solved, reported and the reports must be approved before taking part in any exam.

• Instructions for writing exercise reports (pdf)

Lecture notes

The lecture notes are collected here