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Students in this course acquire the basic skills necessary for the design of chemical plants. Topics cover construction materials used in chemical plant building, erosion, mechanical properties, handling of materials and their selection, equipment symbols (codes) and drawings, ancillary services for unit operations, plant site and planning. In addition to this, students learn about types of industrial waste and its control, industrial safety, maintenance, machine selections, precise machine plans and piping. The course ends with an introduction to optimal selection for processes, compound and single variables, ways of exploration, linear and dynamic programming as well as different computer applications. Students are to submit a design report that includes capital and running cost of the plant as well as carrying out a sensitively analysis of the designed plant.
