Advanced Chemical Equipment Design

Academic unit or major

Graduate major in Chemical Science and Engineering

Instructor(s)

Masatoshi Kubouchi

Class Format

Lecture (Face-to-face)

Media-enhanced courses

-

Day of week/Period
(Classrooms)

1-2 Mon / 1-2 Thu

Class

-

Course Code

CAP.C531

Number of credits

200

Course offered

2024

Offered quarter

3Q

Syllabus updated

Mar 14, 2025

Language

English

Syllabus

Course overview and goals

The field of applied chemistry deals with manufacturing chemical products that involve high temperatures and pressures, and corrosive process fluids. It is necessary to build factories, design equipment, and maintain them. While getting a picture of the process as a whole, after getting an understanding of design theory for factories operating under these special conditions, employees are needed not just for designing equipment, but also for receiving equipment, and maintaining and managing it. The instructor will lecture on topics that involve equipment materials in actual factories as well as these kinds of approaches, with students learning in particular through exercises and problems.

Course description and aims

[Objectives] By taking this lecture, students will gain an understanding of material mechanics including the plastic zone, necessary for designing chemical equipment that handles high and low temperatures, high pressure and vacuum, or corrosive chemicals. Students will also learn approaches to thermal stress and fracture mechanics. Based on that, students will gain an understanding of design methods for thick cylinder containers, etc., approaches to partial yielding, and approaches to time-dependent fracturing. Students will also learn approaches necessary for corrosion resistance and maintenance, as well as approaches to design, manufacturing, and maintain actual chemical equipment, through a variety of topics on materials for chemical plans.
[Topics]
Students in this lecture will gain an understanding of approaches to designing chemical equipment that operate under special conditions, understand deterioration examples for equipment, and learn the skills to manage equipment in actual environments.

Keywords

elastic‐plastic material, thick-wall vessel, hollow sphere, external pressure vessel, thermal stress, parcial yield, multilayered cylinder, creep, time dependent fracture, fracture mechanics, corrosion, maintenance, degradation, stainless steel, heat-exchanger, material selection, life prediction, non-metallic materials

Competencies

• Specialist skills
• Intercultural skills
• Communication skills
• Critical thinking skills
• Practical and/or problem-solving skills

Class flow

Above 70% to 80% of each lecture in material mechanics and design theory will be devoted to content. For students to develop a strong understanding of the lecture content and how to apply it, exercise problems related to lecture content will be assigned.
Explanations will be given in each lecture of deterioration examples, etc. and the instructor will assign reports (partially exercises) related to the lecture content in order to deepen students' understand.

Course schedule/Objectives

Study advice (preparation and review)

To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.

Textbook(s)

Text book specified by the instructor uploaded on OCW

Reference books, course materials, etc.

N/A

Evaluation methods and criteria

Students' understanding of material mechanics and design theory are evaluated based on exercises and homework, and chemical equipment design is evaluated based on reports

Related courses

• CAP.B223 ： Inorganic Chemistry (Materials Science)

Prerequisites

N/A

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