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Process Design Engineering

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Is this course for you?

You should take this if

  • You work in Pharmaceutical & Healthcare or Energy & Utilities
  • You're a Chemical & Process professional
  • You have 3+ years of hands-on experience in this field
  • You prefer self-paced learning you can revisit

You should skip if

  • You're new to this field with no prior experience
  • You need a different specialisation outside Chemical & Process
  • You need live interaction with an instructor

Course details

This comprehensive course covers the principles and practices of process design engineering, enabling students to design and develop efficient, safe, and cost-effective processes for various industries. Through a combination of theoretical foundations and practical applications, students will learn to develop process flow diagrams, material and energy balances, and piping and instrumentation diagrams.

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Key topics covered

1. Understand process design principles and methodologies

2. Learn to develop process flow diagrams and piping and instrumentation diagrams

3. Apply material and energy balances to process design

4. Use process simulation tools for optimization

5. Identify and mitigate safety and risk concerns

Course content

The course is readily available, allowing learners to start and complete it at their own pace.

31 lectures4 hr 39 min
  1. Process Engineering Design: Role, Activities, Documents & Career
    25 min
  2. Process Design Stages From Conceptual Design To Startup
    12 min
  3. Process Simulation Role in Chemical Engineering Projects & Process Engineering Considerations
    12 min
  4. Process Flow Diagrams (PFDs) Explained | Key to Efficient Process Design
    11 min
  5. Tips to Choose the Optimum Process Control Scheme
    11 min
  6. Energy Conservation Techniques in Chemical Process Design
    14 min
  7. Pipe Sizing 101: Criteria, Calculation, and Best Practices for Process Engineers
    20 min
  8. Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger Sizing & Thermal Design Parameters
    22 min
  9. Distillation / Absorption Tower Operation, Hydraulics and Tray Design Aspects
    13 min
  10. Separator type selection, internals and design criteria
    14 min
  11. Pressure Safety Relief valves: Operation, types, and sizing procedure
    11 min
  12. Control Valve Sizing Parameters, Inherent and Installed Characteristics
    17 min
  13. Process Design tips in Amine Gas Sweetening Units
    8 min
  14. Energy Conservation Techniques in Chemical Process Design
    14 min
  15. How compressor performance is affected by operating conditions and gas properties?
    4 min
  16. Introduction to P&IDs
    4 min
  17. Data Shown on P&ID VS PFD
    5 min
  18. Role of P&IDs Within Project Workflow
    5 min
  19. Anatomy of P&IDs
    3 min
  20. Main Equipment Data
    8 min
  21. Main Line / Piping Data
    4 min
  22. Showing Fittings on the P&ID
    7 min
  23. Scope and Battery Limits
    2 min
  24. Introduction to Control and Shutdown
    3 min
  25. Performance Indication with Instruments
    3 min
  26. Control and shutdown systems DCS and ESD or BPCS & SIS
    5 min
  27. Final Elements Control valves shutdown
    4 min
  28. Pressure Safety Valve and relief system
    6 min
  29. Plant Isolation and Maintenance
    5 min
  30. Process Safety and Expected Hazards
    3 min
  31. Purpose of HAZOP and SIL studies on a P&ID
    4 min

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What learners say about this course

Bhavani S
Bhavani S Student
Feb 22, 2026

Nice

Mohit Navelkar
Mohit Navelkar Mechanical Engineer
May 3, 2026

Grabbed this to tighten up system design thinking, not to chase math proofs, and it mostly fit that lane for a beginner course. The chapter that stuck was the self‑attention walkthrough where they freeze on a 4‑token sentence and sketch Q/K/V shapes on screen, then show how a tiny change in softmax temperature flips the output; that’s now a note in our repo next to an old PR. Framing transformers as an arch choice with tradeoffs helped when we talked about prod inference paths and why RPS falls off under longer contexts. it's light on infra realities, though. I wasn’t sold on the quick pass over scaling; a bit more on k8s placement, CI checks for model drift, or basic obs would’ve helped teams shipping this stuff. Still, it nudged us to clean up assumptions, and we’re already tweaking on‑call docs to match how attention actually behaves.

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Davey Enyia
May 3, 2026

The ramp from symbols to actual circuits didn't whiplash; concepts stacked in a way a beginner can keep in cache. Chapter 3’s Ohm’s Law bench demo stuck, especially the moment the instructor calls out the 9.6V sag on the multimeter after adding a second resistor, not just the formula. Framing labs like small PRs helped: wire it, test, note failure modes, then iterate, which maps to how things break in prod even if the domain’s different. Some bits were mostly fine but rushed; the AC section and power ratings felt thin, and I wasn't sold on skipping breaker safety beyond a slide. It's clean enough to run between meetings, though I've seen clearer obs on why mistakes happen when RPS goes up—one aside tying heat to failure would’ve helped. next pass, I’ll probably be sharper about gaps because this set a baseline.

Diya Chhipa
Diya Chhipa student
May 3, 2026

Gave me a tighter vocabulary for RF design reviews, which helps when I'm sanity-checking arch decisions before they hit prod. The Smith chart section, especially the 2.4 GHz matching walkthrough where the VNA trace is stepped to 50Ω, stuck. it's advanced and moves fast; I wasn't sold on the brief detour into automotive antennas, and I wished there was more on measurement gotchas under k8s-like CI pressure—still, it helps me ask fewer fuzzy questions in PRs and focus on what actually matters during reviews.

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Questions and Answers

A: The tipping point is vapor pressure sensitivity. A 10–20 °C increase near the bubble point can double vapor pressure, which directly shifts required relieving mass flow. Blocked outlet is not a fire case, so fire heat flux assumptions don't apply, and metal design temperature isn't the fluid temperature.

A: The boundary is functional safety traceability. A SIL-rated sensor must be consistently identified across P&ID, index, and SRS. With hours to startup, you don't reinterpret SIL intent; you stop and correct the drawing to avoid operating an unverified safety function.

A: The hard number is velocity after losses. With 5 m head, ideal velocity is ~10 m/s, but fittings, entrance, and partially full flow knock it down to ~1–2 m/s. In a 2-inch line, that lands near 0.15 m³/min, so 10 m³ needs over an hour.

A: The threshold is wet H2S presence with stress. At these pressures and moderate temperature, hydrogen charging leads to SSC in susceptible carbon steels. CO2 corrosion explains thinning, not cracking, and HTHA needs much higher temperature.