Course overview
The plant design project involves a small group of students working as a team to design a nominated chemical or bioprocessing manufacturing plant. The tasks include the design of plant items, an assessment of factors affecting plant safety, sustainability and environmental impact assessments, utilities design, operation and maintenance processes, estimation of plant costs and process economics, communication of a design report and poster, and presentations.
Course learning outcomes
- Explain the fundamentals of process plant design
- Complete conceptual or preliminary design
- Demonstrate basic engineering design
- Construct an assessment of economic performance of the proposed plant
- Complete a sustainability assessment of the proposed plant
- Construct a preliminary environmental impact assessment of proposed plant
- Construct a comprehensive basic engineering design report