Process and ChemicalApplied Process Design: Equipment Sizing and Selection
This course covers sizing and selecting the equipment a process is built from, at the level an engineer needs to specify a duty, check a vendor proposal and troubleshoot a unit that is not performing. Delegates work through separators and vessels, pumps and compressors, heat exchangers, columns and fired equipment, taking each from the process duty through to the specification. Design margins receive attention, since equipment specified with generous margin frequently performs worse at normal rates than equipment sized correctly. The course closes on interrogating a vendor datasheet and on the rating calculation that determines whether existing equipment can handle a proposed change.
Course objectives
- Translate a process duty into an equipment specification
- Size separators, vessels, pumps, compressors and heat exchangers
- Select column internals and fired equipment against duty
- Apply design margins without degrading normal rate performance
- Interrogate a vendor datasheet against the stated duty
- Rate existing equipment against a proposed change in operation
- Recognise the sizing errors that produce chronic operating problems
Who should attend
- Process and project engineers
- Plant engineers assessing debottlenecking options
- Technical staff reviewing vendor proposals
- Operations engineers troubleshooting equipment
- Graduate engineers in design roles
Course outline
- 01From process duty to equipment specification
- 02Separators and pressure vessels
- 03Pump and compressor sizing
- 04Heat exchanger sizing and rating
- 05Columns and internals
- 06Fired equipment
- 07Design margin and its cost at normal rates
- 08Vendor datasheets and rating an existing unit
Scheduled sessions
| Dates | Venue | Format | Price | Register |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 to 6 November 2026 | Port Louis, Mauritius | Classroom | USD 1,325 per delegate | Register Now |
| 14 to 18 December 2026 | Nairobi, Kenya | Classroom | USD 1,325 per delegate | Register Now |
| 15 to 19 March 2027 | Online | Online | R8,500 per delegate | Register Now |