ChE415(F) COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN

UNIT-I
Introduction of computer aided design (CAD) a review of tools for CAD (computer systems: file and data management). Scope of computer aided design of process equipment. The techniques of digital simulation: Construction of Information flow Diagram and encoding IFD into various numerical forms.
CAD of fluid flow systems: Pipe line design calculations for Newtonian and Non-Newtonian flow, Design of pipe line networks, Pipe line design calculations for two phase flows in pipes (Gas-solid, liquid-solid), Sizing of pumps (calculation of power requirements).

UNIT-II
CAD of heat transfer equipment: Performance calculations of Triple effect Evaporators, heat exchangers (double pipe, shell and tube), condensers and vertical thermo siphon reboilers.

UNIT-III
CAD of mass transfer equipment: Flash Calculations, Performance of distillation columns for binary systems by McCabe-Thiele method, multicomponent systems by Tomich method, Performance calculations of Tray and packed absorbers, Performance of single stage and multi-stage counter current (without reflux) extraction columns.

UNIT-IV
CAD of chemical reactors: Calculation of equilibrium compositions of a set of simultaneous reactions, Performance calculation for batch reactor, plug flow reactor and CSTRs, homogeneous and heterogeneous flow reactors for specific reactions (Pyrolysis of Ethane \ for manufacture of ethylene, manufacture of Ethanol amines, Hydrogenation of Benzene in an adiabatic fixed bed reactor)


Text Books

1. Chemical Process Computations, Raghu Raman, Elsevier Applied Science Publishers
2. Computer Aided Process Plant Design, M.E.Leesley, Gulf Publishing Co

1. Computer Applications in chemical Engineering: Process Design & simulation, Robert G. Squires.
2. Fortran programs for Chemical Process Design, Analysis and Simulation, Coker A.K, Gulf Publishing Co.
3. Catalytic Reactor Design, Orhan Tarhan, McGraw Hill
4. Chemical Engineering Vol.6, Sinnot, Pergamon Press.