Course detail

Design of Process and Power Systems

FSI-KNPAcad. year: 2015/2016

Students will become familiar with the problematics of the designing of process and energy systems applied in engineering offices. From the wide variety of activities that fall within the designing of process and power system the attention of lectures and seminars is focused on the most important areas of technical and technological design and its impact on the environment. Specifically, attention is focused on methods and tools used for the design of process and energy systems in the conceptual design phase and feasibility studies and on the methods and tools used for the design of process and energy systems at the basic design stage of given system and its individual equipment. In the practical part of the course the maximal support of available educational versions of professional software systems is employed for the design of process and energy systems and analysis (e.g. ChemCAD, HTRI, W2E, Excel-VBA, Maple, etc.).

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

4

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Zdeněk Jegla, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Process Engineering (ÚPI)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

1. Basic overview of the range of design practice of process engineer focusing on techniques, methods and tools for the designing of process and energy systems and their individual equipment.
2. Mastering the use of professional software systems for designing and related competent practice of process engineer.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of courses completed in the previous semester, especially thermal processes and hydraulic processes, thermodynamic engineering and construction of process equipment I.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course is taught through lectures explaining the basic principles and theory of the discipline. Exercises are focused on practical topics presented in lectures.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Prerequisites for classified (graded) credit :
Active participation in seminars and understanding of problematics.

Classified (graded) credit procedure:
Student skills evaluation takes place in two stages:
1. Written calculation tests. Upon receiving grade E or better from both the test and the semestral paper, a student proceeds to an oral part of exam.
2. Oral part: Following the results of computational tests, student demonstrate related theoretical knowledge in the design by the form of expert discussion with the teacher, from which will result final grade of the student.

Course curriculum

Not applicable.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The aim of the course is to prepare students for the process engineer practice. Students will be familiar with the available methods and techniques for the designing of the process and energy systems and their individual equipment and with their practical applications using professional software products to support design activities.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Lessons are held in the computer laboratory.
The lecture is combined with the practice lesson demonstrating of computerized solution of partial problems.
The students may work in the laboratory also at the agreed time besides regular lessons.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

VDI-Heat Atlas, 2nd edition, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2010
Cengel, Y. A., Cimbala J.M.; Fluid mechanics: fundamentals and applications, 2nd edition, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, Boston, 2010
Finlayson B. A.; Introduction to Chemical Engineering Computing, John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken, 2006
White R. E., Subramanian V. R.; Computational Methods in Chemical Engineering with Maple, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2010

Recommended reading

VDI-Gesellschaft Verfahrenstechnik und Chemieingenieurwesen Editor: VDI-Heat Atlas, 2nd. edition, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
Green, D., W., Perry, R., H., CHEMICAL ENGINEERS´ HANDBOOK, 8 th editon, Mc Graw-Hill International Editions, Chemical Engineering Series,New York, 2007
Kizlink, J.: Technologie chemických látek I. a II. díl, VUT Brno, 2001
Stehlík, P.: Termofyzikální vlastnosti, VUT Brno, 1992

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme M2I-P Master's

    branch M-PRI , 1. year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch M-PRI , 1. year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Zdeněk Jegla, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Process and energy system "from A to Z", the stages of design, examples of technologies, design tools, softwares, importance of simulation.
2. Introduction to project evaluation - the life stages of the project, legislation, types of documentation. Basics of econ. evaluation of proposals and projects.
3. Simulation of process and power flow sheets and schemes.
4. Stochastic simulations in the feasibility study stage.
5. Modeling and simulation of power schemes - presentation software W2E. Design of power circuits - steam cycle.
6. Designing a complex process for power - waste-to-energy plant in W2E.
7. Interrelation the system and detail design in designing process and energy systems and equipment. Different levels and methods of design and optimization employing through the example of a typical equipment-STHE.
8. The design methods and tools for intensification of STHE for process and energy systems.
9. Design of PTHE for process and energy systems, the design specifics of the modular (block) design of these equipment.
10. Design of combustion equipment for processes and power industry - basics of system design approach and the main principles of the economic design.
11. Design of combustion equipment for processes and power industry - related aspects of the detailed design (heat flux, fluid two-phase flow, fouling of heat transfer surfaces, the wall temperature, material selection).
12. Desig of cooling systems and equipment for process and power industry - principles of system approach, arrangement, performance and characteristics of individual cooling equipment.
13. Design of cooling systems and equipment for process and power industry - detail design principles for specific cooling equipment.

Computer-assisted exercise

26 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Bohuslav Kilkovský, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. The basics of simulation program Chemcad, the influence of setting a thermodynamic model on the results of simulation.
2. Heat exchanger unit and design of the heat exchanger using simulation software Chemcad.
3. Design of suitable diameter pipe, pressure loss calculation and design of pumps using Chemcad.
4. Chemical reactors, combustion.
5. Simulation of flue gas cleaning process.
6. Using units for a fluid mixture (unit separator and flash).
7. Simulation condensate stabilization unit and design of the heat exchanger.
8. Using a simulation program for obtaining the properties of fluids and mixtures and determining the distillation curve.
9. Binary distillation using Chemcad.
10. Multicomponent distillation, determining the diameter and height of the distillation column, the determination of pressure loss, determine investment and operating costs.
11. Simulation of waste-to-energy plant.
12. The taught topics repetition on simple and illustrative examples.
13. Final test.