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Process Design Practices: KORF Technology

This document provides an overview of an intensive 5 day training course for chemical engineers with 0.5-5 years of experience. The course aims to bridge gaps between university education and practical process engineering. It emphasizes calculation methods and techniques for troubleshooting and designing process units. The content covers topics like simulation, design conditions, hydraulics, piping, flow orifices, control valves, vessels, towers, pumps, compressors, heat exchangers, heaters, relief valves and metallurgy.

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Process Design Practices: KORF Technology

This document provides an overview of an intensive 5 day training course for chemical engineers with 0.5-5 years of experience. The course aims to bridge gaps between university education and practical process engineering. It emphasizes calculation methods and techniques for troubleshooting and designing process units. The content covers topics like simulation, design conditions, hydraulics, piping, flow orifices, control valves, vessels, towers, pumps, compressors, heat exchangers, heaters, relief valves and metallurgy.

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KORF Technology

Engineered with passion

Process Design Practices


Cilliers Kruger

Intensive 5 day training course for chemical engineers with


0.5-5 years of experience. It bridges the gap between
university education and practical process engineering.
This course emphasizes calculation methods and
techniques to troubleshoot and design process units by
providing high quality handouts and numerous examples.

CONTENT

Simulation
Flash calculations; Equations of state; Mass, energy and entropy balance; 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 and, 10/13 rule; Vacuum
design pressure; Test pressure; Design temperature, including typical margins; MDMT and 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; Equations for liquids, gases and 2-phase flow circuits

Copyright © 1997 – 2019 KORF Technology Ltd, Canada | www.korf.ca


KORF Technology
Engineered with passion

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

Pump & Compressores


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

Heat 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; Temperature embrittlement;
Flue ash corrosion; PTSCC and ClSCC; Non-destructive testing

KORF Technology Ltd


CONTACT US 2068 Wilmers Lane, N7T 7H4, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
+1 (519) 381 2781
[email protected]

Copyright © 1997 – 2019 KORF Technology Ltd, Canada | www.korf.ca

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