Government Engineering College, Bharuch
Chemical Engineering Department
Expert Talk Topic: “Introduction to DWSIM”
Name of Expert: Mr. Krunal J. Suthar (Assistant Professor and GTU Coordinator at SRICT, Vataria, Near Ankleswar, Gujarat, India)
Date of Expert Talk: 16/03/2021
Time: 2:45-5:00 pm
Faculty coordinator: Prof. Alpesh S Rana (Asst. Prof. - Chemical Engg.)
No. of Students: 43(8th semester), 10(6th semester)
Speaker Profile:
• B.E. Chemical Engineering - Dharmsinh Desai University, Institute of Technology, Nadiad.
• M. Tech, Chemical Process, and Plant Design, Nirma University, Ahmedabad
• Pursuing Ph.D. from Nirma University “Separation and purification of biofuel”
• At present, working as Assistant Professor and GTU Coordinator at SRICT, Vataria, Near Ankleswar, Gujarat, India
• Past experience: Worked as an R&D officer at ETL, worked as a design engineer at Sunrise Polymers, worked as a research assistant CSMCRI, Bhavnagar
• Life member of IIChE and IEI
• President, Rotary Club of Ankleshwar Green, a club no. 85530 for the year 2015-16 Publications and Paper Presentation:
• Over 07 national and international presentations and publications
Workshops delivered
• Delivered workshop and expert talk at Zydus Cadila on steam distribution, Heubach pigments on drying and UPL on piping and instrumentation.
• Conducted workshop on process simulator at SRICT, DDIT Nadiad, UTU, Bardoli, SNPIT Bardoli
Major Projects:
• A project on waste water treatment for the removal of toxic ammoniacal nitrogen at R&D, CETP, Ankleshwar
• A project on Monochlorobenzene production at Deepak Nitrate, Vadodara
• Worked as design engineer for Sunrise Industry India Ltd., Vadodara
• Worked as Project Assistant at CSMCRI, Bhavnagar
• Worked on Bio medical project sponsored by GEMI, Ghandhinagar
• Working on IEI sponsored project – thermophysical property prediction of eutectic solvents
Expert lecture description:
• In the expert talk the following points were discussed
• Basics of simulation & Brief history of simulation software.
• DWSIM interface
• Following simulation
1) Flash calculations & Flow splitter
2) Compound separator
3) Compressor, pumps, and their sensitivity analysis
4) Fugacity coefficient calculation
5) Dew point pressure and bubble point pressure
6) VLE of ethanol and water system
7) Regression analysis
8) Equilibrium reactor
9) Kinetic reactor
• Discussion on thermodynamic models’ selection.
Glimpses of Expert lecture:
