20 March, 2021

    The Chemical Engineering Department under the banner of the Institution of Engineers India (IEI) organized an online training program on ‘Process Engineering and Design’ from February to April 2021. The session-5 of the following training program entitled “Hydraulic  Sizing of Valves and Pressure Drop Calculations” was organized on 20th March 2021 on Microsoft Teams under the coordination of Prof. U. P. Christian. The webinar was conducted by expert Shri Nilesh Joshi (Process Manager, Linde Engineering Pvt. Ltd, Vadodara). The training program was attended by more than 105 UG & PG students of Chemical Engineering from various institutes of Gujarat.

    The prime objective of this training program was to discuss the stepwise procedure for the design of process plant equipment such as shell & tube heat exchanger, distillation column, pump, flowmeters and piping. To provide them guidance about the selection criteria among the different types of equipments & the mechanical design of pressure vessels, this training program was conducted. The students were made aware of the software such as HTRI and ASPEN for the design and simulation of equipment with the help of different case studies.

    During the training program, the expert discussed the basic aspects of hydraulics in process engineering  design, including practical concepts of pump design & detailed applications and purpose of control valves in Chemical Industries. He also discussed the software-based applications and case studies on hydraulic design. The participants learned about the practical concepts of pump design & selection criteria and applications of hydraulics. The participants were also made aware of the various software for hydraulics selection and design & the graphical method for control valve sizing.