Course detail
Construction of Process Equipment I
FSI-KKP Acad. year: 2025/2026 Winter semester
The course is focused on basics of structural design of process equipment, especially pressure vessels, apparatuses, reactors, tanks and piping systems. It includes material and structural requirements of equipment and its fabrication and assembly methods. There is also introduction to basic theory for strength calculations that are required by standards used in practice.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
5
Supervisor
Department
Entry knowledge
Basic knowledge of elasticity and strength of structures, mechanics, theory of materials and details of machines.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Course-unit credit requirements: Active attendance at seminars is checked. The exam has written and oral parts, students have to prove their evident theoretical and practical knowledge.
Active attendance at seminars is checked. Apart from that, seminar part of the course is accomplished when a student gains enough points within a special system. The system is still under development, nevertheless it usually contains two tests and ten homeworks.
Aims
Objective of the course is to provide overview of basic structural requirements of pressure equipment and tanks, their fabrication and assembly. Also to provide theoretical basis for subsequent courses as well as for process equipment design in practice.
Ability to choose materials, structural details and to design basic dimensions of simple pressure equipment and tanks. Application of knowledge in subsequent study in area of structural design as well as in area of residual lifetime calculations of equipment.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme N-PRI-P: Process Engineering, Master's, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
39 hours, optionally
Syllabus
Revision – stress and strain, limit states, beams and plates
Thin shell theory
Application of thin shell theory on axisymmetric cases
Application of thin shell theory on shell thickness calculation and dimensioning of ring stiffeners
Elastic solution of cylindrical shell with internal pressure
Thick shells
Edge effect and applications
Flat ends
Beam and plate models with pressure loads
Design of pressure vessels and piping systems
Finite element analysis
Exercise
26 hours, compulsory
Syllabus
Thematic problems: 1) Membrane shell state solution. 2) Static method, slope deflection method. 3) Analysis of spatial piping branch systems by the static method. 4) Analysis of statically indeterminate systems by the static method. 5) Design of removable joints. 6) Reinforcement of openings. 7) Design of tank 8) Design of silo.