Course overview
Design of chemical processes starts by properly formulating and solving material and energy balances for whole process flowsheets. In this course, the concepts covered in CHEM ENG 1007 Introduction to Process Engineering are built upon to include multiple units, both reactive and non-reactive systems, single and multiple phases, and steady state and transient processes. More fundamentally, it introduces problem solving strategies used by chemical engineers to solve large and more complex problems by breaking a process down into its components, establishing the relations between known and unknown process variables, assembling the information needed to solve for the unknowns, and finally obtaining the solution using appropriate computational methods. This will be reinforced by undertaking a process design project in small teams. This course is delivered through a combination of online theory lectures, practice workshops, tutorials, and process design sessions.
Course learning outcomes
- Use a generalised problem solving strategies to solve a range of material and energy balances
- Formulate and solve material balances for steady state and transient processes, single and multiple unit operations, with and without chemical reactions, and for single and multiphase situations.
- Formulate and solve energy balances for mechanical energy situations, with and without chemical reactions.
- Demonstrate how to use computers (specifically Microsoft Excel) for solving open-ended mass and energy balance for a relatively complex process flowsheet
- Work efficiently and productively in a small team
- Compose properly formatted progress and final design reports.