HEAT EXCHANGER DESIGN

BACKGROUND & SPECIFICATION OF DIFFERENT TOPICS

The Design Project is based on a plant that produces Benzene.

In terms of the organization of this project for Mangosuthu Design Associates Ltd$.,$ you are a

Candidate Engineer and will be reporting to the project manager, Ms Nxumalo. Four heat

exchangers are to be designed by Mangosuthu Design Associates and your objectives will be

designing one of these heat exchangers and performing a HAZOP on another allocated part of the

process. The other three heat exchangers will be designed by your colleagues Mrs Chetty, Mr

Brannon, and Mr Gumede.

Work for each process will be broken into mechanical design and process safety. These include

material and energy balancing requiring simulation software, an illustrative drawing and tabulated

data requiring CAD software and spreadsheet software and costing, as well as a HAZOP study.

The process flow diagram, stream properties, etc. are provided. Note that if some information

required for your design calculations is not be readily available, you will have to make

assumptions. Ensure that you do this in consultation with the lecturer involved.

The following deliverables are to be undertaken for this Project:

Consolidation of project management and Individual Design of a Heat Exchanger. One

progress report and one final report is to be submitted.

HAZOP Study done in a group on a selected process unit of the Benzene production plant.

One group presentation is to be submitted including a HAZOP table and P&ID$.$

HEAT EXCHANGER DESIGN

$1\mathrm{.}1$ ALLOCATION OF TOPICS

Group I

Design heat exchanger E$-903$

Group II

Design heat exchanger, E$-905$

Group III

Design heat exchanger E$-907$

Group IV

Design the heat exchanger E$-908$

The tables below indicate the design variation to be undertaken, according to the sixth digit $($L$)$ of

your student number $-$ Table $1\mathrm{.}1,$ and eight digit $($P$)$ of your student number $-$ Table $1\mathrm{.}2.$