r/ChemicalEngineering • u/Revolutionary_Tie551 • Mar 16 '25

Design Boiler P&ID advice

Im currently designing a fire tube boiler for a 3rd year project and am now onto drawing my P&ID. ive attached my current design but im unsure if ive missed anything or if i am actually doing it correctly. Any advice would be massively appreciated!

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u/69tank69 Mar 16 '25

You are paying an absolute fortune to go to school, why not ask the professor who is actually grading you and knows what’s expected of you?

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u/shhadyburner Mar 16 '25

whats with all the idiots on this sub admonishing people for asking for chemical engineering help in a sub for chemical engineering. theres even a flare for students so you should know what you signed up for before telling everyone to just ask their professors.

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u/Userdub9022 Mar 16 '25

Same with people being ass hats when an operator or someone uninformed posts a question here. I get that the engineer is probably right but it doesn't hurt to ask others why

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u/69tank69 Mar 16 '25

Because asking for help from the right people or for a specific part is a crucial skill. If you hand every package you work on to the head project engineer and ask them if it looks good you won’t last long. If you give someone a drawing and say “does this flow path make sense” or “does the level controller system look like it will work” that makes them much more likely to help you and to pay attention to the part you are unsure of.

But most importantly students don’t use their resources enough! Go to office hours, email professors, ask classmates, college costs an absolute fortune and with there being online lectures for a lot of the content the thing you are really paying for is being taught by an expert in that field. Some professors do suck and it’s good to use outside resources but this isn’t meant to be a homework help group

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u/shhadyburner Mar 16 '25

a third year design project isnt a homework problem.

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u/Revolutionary_Tie551 Mar 16 '25

I have been as I’ve been writing my report additionally, I just thought that as this subreddit has a lot of people in industry any additional eyes on it may give some more help.

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u/WorkinSlave Mar 16 '25

I had a professor with a sign on his door that said “undergrads, please go away”.

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u/69tank69 Mar 16 '25

Did they offer office hours? Did you try emailing them? Did you report them to the department head for not allotting time for undergrad students?

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u/WorkinSlave Mar 17 '25

No office hours. Tenure is a beautiful thing.