Course detail
Construction of Process Equipment II
FSI-KKR Acad. year: 2026/2027 Summer semester
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.
Supervisor
Learning outcomes of the course unit
Prerequisites
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
Language of instruction
Czech
Aims
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
The study programmes with the given course
Programme N-PRI-P: Process Engineering, Master's
branch ---: no specialisation, 6 credits, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
26 hours, optionally
Syllabus
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
39 hours, compulsory
Syllabus
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.