Plant & process engineering/ Measurement technique

Course contents

- Procedural specifications for devices, machines, and measuring and control equipment
- Essential laws, provisions and standards (EN ISO 10628)
- law on boilers, pressure equipment regulations
- Capital cost estimates: overall factors (according to Lang), single factors, index adjustment etc.
- Flow charts, process diagram, piping and instrumentation diagram, symbols and important information in accordance with respective standards,
- mass and energy balances (continuous and batching plants), typical installations of individual devices and plant components
- Planning of process engineering plants: project phases, installation planning, data sheets, piping design, change documentation, instruments, machine and piping schedule, commissioning, qualification, procurement: technical delivery
- Heating and cooling systems (Heat exchanger types)
- Pumps and fans
- Physical principles of temperature, pressure, force, flow, speed and fill level
- measurement for specific applications in biotechnology
- Proximity sensors and light barriers
- Transmitter
- Measuring systems and potential sources of errors in biotechnological plants

Department

Bachelor's program Biotechnology & Food Engineering