Process Technology and Equipment

Course Description
Amaranath S. Kumara, PhD.
Associate Professor
Faculty of Energy and Environmental Technology
University College of Southeast Norway
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What is Process Technology ?

The branch of Engineering which is Johan Sverdrup field centre

concerned with processes in which
materials undergo a required
change in composition, energy
content or physical state at a
reasonable cost and in the safest
possible manner.

RP DP
P1 LQ
Source: Statoil News & media

 The design capacity is 315,000 BOE/day (50,000 sm3/day)

 Johan Sverdrup is expected to hold 1.8–2.9 billion barrels (290–460 million cubic meters) of oil
 The platform will include between 40 and 50 risers and J-tubes.
 The LQ topsides will include the actual living quarters with 450 cabins.
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Chemical/Process Engineer

 Chemical/process engineers concern themselves with the

chemical processes that turn raw materials into valuable
products.

 The necessary skills encompass all aspects of design,

testing, scale-up, operation, control, and optimization,
and require a detailed understanding of the various
"unit operations", such as distillation, mixing, and
biological processes, which make these conversions
possible.

 Chemical/Process engineering utilizes mass, momentum,

and energy transfer along with thermodynamics and
chemical kinetics to analyze and improve on these "unit
operations.
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Process Technology and Equipment

 This course will guide the participates to develop key concepts and techniques to select
and design process equipment in a process plant.

 These key concepts can be utilized to make design and operating decisions.

Process Technology and Equipment

Basic process Unit operations Design of turbo

design machines
Amaranath S. Kumara Britt E. Moldestad Knut Vågsæther
Associate Professor Professor Associate Professor
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Basic process design

 Introduction to Process equipment design

 Process Diagrams and flow sheet calculations
 Basic valve theory and pipe networks
 Multiphase flow
 Design of Pressure vessels
 Reactor sizing and design

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Unit operations

 Separation colum design

 Binary distillation
 Multicomponent distillation
 Plate and packed columns
 Three phase separators
 Fluidization

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Design of turbomachinery

 Introduction to turbomachinery
 Hydraulic pumps
 Compressors and fans
 Steam- and gas turbines
 Axial machinery
 Selection, application and construction

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Learning outcome
 understand the meaning of the terminology associated with process equipment

 be able to apply adequate methods, techniques and equations in solving multiphase flow,
production and processing problems

 be able to explain process flow diagrams and separation systems

 understand the basic for calculation of the main dimensions, selection and modelling of
different process equipment

 be able to look up and use data from available tables and diagrams to solve process
equipment problems

 be able to apply adequate methods, techniques and equations in calculation of rotating

machinery and pipe systems

 be able to draw conclusions concerning design, production and optimization

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 Amaranath S. Kumara, PhD
Associate Professor
Faculty of Energy and Environmental Technology
University College of Southeast Norway (USN)
Email – Amaranath.S.Kumara@usn.no Mobile – +47 482 89 420

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