Engineering and TechnicalProcess Engineering Essentials
A grounding in the unit operations and calculations that underpin any continuous process plant. Delegates work through mass and energy balances, fluid flow and pressure drop, heat transfer and exchanger duty, separation processes, and the reading of process flow and piping and instrumentation diagrams. The emphasis is on the arithmetic an engineer needs at the plant rather than on design theory, so delegates practise on worked plant data throughout and finish able to check whether a unit is performing as it should. Suitable for engineers moving into a process role and for technical staff supporting process operations without a chemical engineering background.
Course objectives
- Construct mass and energy balances across a unit and across a plant
- Calculate fluid flow, pressure drop and pump duty for a given service
- Assess heat exchanger performance against design duty
- Describe the common separation processes and the variables that control them
- Read and interpret process flow diagrams and piping and instrumentation diagrams
- Determine whether a unit is operating within its design envelope
Who should attend
- Process, production and plant engineers
- Operations and technical support staff
- Maintenance engineers working on process plant
- Graduate engineers entering a process role
- Technical managers overseeing process operations
Course outline
- 01Process plant fundamentals and the unit operations concept
- 02Mass balances across a unit and across the plant
- 03Energy balances and thermal duty
- 04Fluid flow, pressure drop, pumps and compressors
- 05Heat transfer and exchanger performance assessment
- 06Separation processes and their controlling variables
- 07Process flow diagrams and piping and instrumentation diagrams
- 08Checking a unit against its design envelope
Scheduled sessions
| Dates | Venue | Format | Price | Register |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 to 22 September 2026 | London, United Kingdom | Classroom | R11,995 per delegate | Register Now |
| 28 October to 1 November 2026 | Accra, Ghana | Classroom | R11,995 per delegate | Register Now |
| 28 October to 1 November 2026 | Maputo, Mozambique | Classroom | R11,995 per delegate | Register Now |
| 10 to 14 November 2026 | Gaborone, Botswana | Classroom | R11,995 per delegate | Register Now |