3D plant tour
Refinery
Tour
A 3D oil refinery made for high school visitors at KMUTT Open Day. A guided tour follows the oil from the tanker through the column, the reactors and the tanks, with views inside the equipment, in Thai or English.
Hello, I’m
Nahmkang.
I am a lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering at King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi. My expertise is in chemical process simulation and distillation column design, and I also do research in electrochemical engineering. This site is where I keep the things I build. You’ll find 3D models of an oil refinery, distillation trays, our pilot distillation column and a shell and tube heat exchanger. From my electrochemistry work there are Pourbaix diagrams and an AEM water electrolyser. I also built interactive pages for my separation courses and a study planner for students in the department. All of it is free to open, and I hope some of it is useful to you.
Site updates
- v1.6The Tray Lab and the Heat Exchanger Lab have a new plant room, more realistic valves, bubble caps and bolts, and new froth on the trays, with the liquid in blue and the vapour in orange so you can tell them apart.
- v1.5The Tray Lab has a new operating window chart with every failure zone named, and the Heat Exchanger Lab now shows the tube holes in every baffle type. Both labs keep their sources on one Sources page.
- v1.4Clearer buttons. Every card here, every lecture in the Interactive Course and every diagram in the Pourbaix diagrams now has a solid button that shows where to click.
- v1.3The Refinery Tour now works on phones and tablets. Its panels keep clear of the view, and the movement pad can be dragged anywhere.
- v1.2New page: Refinery Tour, a 3D oil refinery for KMUTT Open Day, with a guided tour in Thai and English.
- v1.1New top bar in the four 3D labs, and fixes in the Heat Exchanger Lab (head sizes, flow directions), the Distillation Lab (liquid level) and the Tray Lab (input checks).
- v1.0New pages: Distillation Tray Lab and ChemEng KMUTT Distillation Lab. The AEM page became the Water Electrolyser Lab, and ChE 335 became the Interactive Course.
3D models
Chemical Engineering Unit Operations
Process equipment you can turn, take apart and run in the browser.
Click any card to open itTap any card to open it
Refinery
3D tray hydraulics
Distillation
Tray Lab
A column section in 3D with sieve, valve, fixed valve, bubble cap, dual-flow and baffle trays. Move the vapour and liquid loads and see where the tray floods, weeps or entrains, on an operating window solved for that tray.
3D walkthrough
ChemEng KMUTT Distillation Lab
The pilot distillation column in our Chemical Engineering laboratory at KMUTT, built as a 3D model. It covers the equipment and startup procedure, through to the calculations you’ll need.
3D builder
Shell and tube heat exchanger
Build a shell and tube heat exchanger. Choose the heads, shell and baffles, then check the heat duty and pressure drop.
Research
My Lab
Models and tools from my research in electrochemical engineering.
Interactive diagrams
Pourbaix diagrams
Pourbaix diagrams for the solutions I work with. Change the concentration and follow how the boundaries move.
3D model
AEM water electrolyser
The membrane cell from my research, taken apart layer by layer. See the electrode reactions and the Aspen Plus model alongside it.
Teaching
Interactive Course Materials
The pages I teach with. Anyone can open them.
For my ChE 335 students
Interactive
Course
These are the interactive pages I use for mass transfer and equipment design. Change a composition or an operating condition and see what happens to the diagram.
Study planning
ChemEng KMUTT Study Planner
For Chemical Engineering students at KMUTT.
Plan of study and eligibility check
Enter your grades to see what you can register for next.
Just for fun
Take a break
Not everything here is for class. Here are three puppies you can play with.
A little 3D game
Play with
the puppies
Mhoonum the corgi, Saimai the dachshund and Mali the samoyed share a little room and a back yard. Call them, feed them, give them a bath or dress them up, and play games together. Each of them has a mind of their own.