Construction of Process Equipment II (FSI-KKR)

Academic year 2026/2027
Supervisor: prof. Dr. Ing. Marcus Reppich  
Supervising institute: ÚPI all courses guaranted by this institute
Teaching language: Czech
Course type: departmental course
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A prerequisite for the safe and economical design of process equipment is a high-quality static analysis of strain and stress in process equipment subjected to operating conditions. Students will learn to use basic computational methods. They will also become more familiar with legislation and its development from the past to the present state. Great attention is devoted to European standards for the design of unfired pressure vessels (ČSN EN 13445) and to the widely used standard in this field, ASME BPVC. In the practical exercises, students will perform strength calculations of equipment both manually and using computational software commonly employed for such purposes in practice. Furthermore, they will become acquainted with the fundamental principles of designing steel structures.
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    Lecture  13 × 2 hrs. optionally                  
    Computer-assisted exercise  13 × 3 hrs. compulsory                  
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Introduction to calculation and design of process equipment.
Standards for pressure vessels, transition to standards of the European Union, PED 2014/68/EU.
Technical requirements of EN 13445.
Structure and activity of supervisors for the dedicated facilities.
Analysis of apparatus design according to EN 13445.
Analysis of apparatus design according to ASME BPVC.
Supplementary standards for apparatus design.
Comparing the most used standards in the world.
Principles of apparatus design.
Design of steel structures.
Design and calculations of flange joints
Design and Calculation of Piping Systems
Using finite element method.
    Computer-assisted exercise The exercises will be based on the practical examples. Students are divided into teams in which they solve the complex strength design of the devices from the initial assignment, through manual calculations according to the standards, control of their own manual calculations with commercial software then processing the drawing documentation to the proposed equipment. In the exercises the students present the results in the form of a presentation, advocating their results.
Literature - fundamental:
1. R. K. Sinnott, G. Towler, and R. K. Sinnott, Chemical engineering design, 5. ed. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2009.
2. S. Chattopadhyay, Pressure vessels: design and practice, 3rd ed. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2005.
3. R. W. Nichols, Pressure Vessel Enineering Technology, vol. 1971. London: Applied Science Publisher.
4. Český normalizační institut, ČESKÁ TECHNICKÁ NORMA, Netopené tlakové nádoby, ČSN EN 13445. 2015.
5. G. A. Antaki, Fitness-for-service and integrity of piping, vessels, and tanks: ASME code simplifed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005.
6. G. F. Hewitt, Ed., Heat exchanger design handbook, 1998. New York: Begell House, 1998.
The study programmes with the given course:
Programme Study form Branch Spec. Final classification   Course-unit credits     Obligation     Level     Year     Semester  
N-PRI-P full-time study --- no specialisation -- Cr,Ex 6 Compulsory 2 1 S
C-AKR-P full-time study CLS -- Cr,Ex 6 Elective 1 1 S