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The document outlines the content covered in a 5-day intensive training course for chemical engineers with 0.5-5 years of experience. The course emphasizes practical process engineering skills like simulation, equipment design, hydraulics, piping, and metallurgy. It provides overviews and examples to bridge the gap between university education and real-world process design practices. Key topics include simulation, design conditions, piping, valves, vessels, towers, pumps, exchangers, relief valves, and metallurgy considerations.

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The document outlines the content covered in a 5-day intensive training course for chemical engineers with 0.5-5 years of experience. The course emphasizes practical process engineering skills like simulation, equipment design, hydraulics, piping, and metallurgy. It provides overviews and examples to bridge the gap between university education and real-world process design practices. Key topics include simulation, design conditions, piping, valves, vessels, towers, pumps, exchangers, relief valves, and metallurgy considerations.

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Process Design Practices

Cilliers Kruger

OVERVIEW
• Intensive 5 day training course for chemical engineers with 0.5-5 year’s experience.
• Bridges the gap between university education and practical process engineering.
• Emphasizes calculation methods and techniques to troubleshoot and design process units.
• Presentation includes high quality handouts and numerous examples.

CONTENT
• SIMULATION. Flash calculations; Equations of state; Mass, energy and entropy balances; Simulation of typical
equipment; Phase equilibrium; Immiscible systems; Critical and retrograde phenomena.
• DESIGN CONDITIONS. Relief valve locations; Design pressure, including typical margins, pumps shut off head, 10/13
rule; Vacuum design pressure; Test pressure; Design temperature, including typical margins; MDMT; Minimum
pressurization temperature; Flanges, including type, facing and rating; Pipe specs; Pipe spec breaks.
• HYDRAULICS. Pipe sizing techniques; Equipment nozzle sizing; Typical equipment pressure drops; Hydraulic cases;
Hydraulic circuits.
• PIPING. Pressure drop calculation; Incompressible flow; Compressible flow; Two-phase flow; Two-phase flow regime
maps; Friction factors; Pipe roughness; Insulation and tracing; Hot taps and stopples; Hand valves.
• FLOW ORIFICES. Types; Orifice construction, taps, straight run requirements and wiring diagram; Orifice sizing; Beta
ratio limits; Orifice/nozzle equations; Choke flow; Two-phase flow; Discharge coefficients; Expansion factors;
Permanent pressure drop; Flow correction.
• CONTROL VALVES. Components; Body types, size, trim, action, direction and characteristics; Actuator type and
action; Positioners; Failure mode; Installation; Wiring diagram; Valve sizing; Eqn for liquids, gases and 2-phase flow.
• VESSELS. Types; Sizing and rating techniques and equations; Level configurations; Vessel nozzles and heads; Vertical
and horizontal vessel layout; Inlet piping; Elevation and supports; Volumes.
• TOWERS. Simulation; Tray types; Efficiency; Column sizing criteria; Jet and Downcomer flooding; Derating factor;
Tray spacing; Tower layout; Tray and piping layout at feeds, draw offs, transitions and reboilers; Types and layout of
reboilers/condensers.
• PUMPS & COMPRESSORS. Pump/compressor components and types; suction/discharge piping; Stuffing box
pressure; Typical pump/compressor curves; Spillback options; NPSHA and NPSHR; Seal systems; Horsepower;
Capacity/pressure control; Surge control; Drivers.
• EXCHANGERS. Heat transfer basics; Typical U-values; Temperature difference; FT factor; Approach; Heat release
curves; Pressure drop; TEMA types and guidelines; Tube and pass arrangements; Baffles; Typical layouts.
• HEATERS. Heater types; Heater components; Radiant/Convection sections; Sootblowing; Decoking; Dryout and
Startup/Shutdown; Burners; Fuel piping and shutdown systems; Simulation practices; Efficiency; Excess air/oxygen;
Flue gas dew point and ash corrosion; Process inlet piping.
• RELIEF VALVES. Set, accumulated and back pressures; Relief valve types; ASME 1 & 8 issues; Relief valve sizing; Inlet
and outlet piping; Relief cases and loads; Instrumentation and double jeopardy.
• METALLURGY. Design life; Common refinery materials and ASTM designations; Refining corrosion mechanisms,
including high temperature hydrogen, sulphur and hydrogen sulphide corrosion; HIC; PWHT; CUI; Temper
embrittlement; Flue ash corrosion; PTSCC and ClSCC; Non-destructive testing.

Nov 1, 2008

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