B.Tech Chemical Engineering

 

CL 306                Process Engineering and Economics          2-1-0-6

 

Prerequisite: CL 301 and CL 209

Syllabus: Input information and batch versus continuous; Input-output structure of the flow sheet; Recycle structure of the flow sheet; Application of separation system principles for case studies; Cost diagrams and screening of process alternatives; Preliminary process optimization; process retrofitting;  Equipment sizing and costing for different process units;  Cost information; Estimating capital and operating costs; Total capital investment and total product costs; Time value of money; Measures of process profitability; Simplifying economic analysis for conceptual designs; Techno-economic feasibility report writing.

Texts:

  1. Timmerhaus, Plant Design and Economics for Chemical Engineers, 5th Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2011.
  2. Smith, Chemical Process Design and Integration, 8th Edition, Wiley, 2006.

References:

  1. T. Biegler, I.E. Grossmann, A.W. Westerberg, Systematic Methods of Chemical Process Design, Prentice Hall International Series, 1997.
  2. Douglas, Conceptual Design of Chemical Processes, McGraw Hill, 1989.
  3. E. Ludwig, Applied Project Engineering, 2nd Edition, Gulf Publishing Company, 1988.