Chemical Engineering in Practice 3 (U00456)

? Credit Points : 40 ? SCQF Level : 9 ? Acronym : EEL-3-CHCEP

This course applies theoretical principles, learnt in earlier and concurrent chemical engineering course, in group design exercises and a laboratory programme. Practical topics such as flowsheets, safety, computing tools and control are also taught in the context of process design.

Entry Requirements

? Pre-requisites : Process Systems 2, Attendance at Chemical Engineering 3A

? Co-requisites : Chemical Engineering 3B

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Chemical, (School of Engineering and Electronics, Schedule M)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 3rd year

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 12 hour(s) per week for 11 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

Students should be able to:

- prepare a mass and heat balance for a continuous process
- select operating conditions and specify and size reactors, heat exchangers and condensers
- prepare and justify schemes for process control and start-up
- complete a preliminary plant layout exercise
- design and execute experiments to test particular relationships or investigate particular phenomena
- use measurement and analytical methods; and be aware of their limitations
- record data and plot appropriately for the relationship being tested
- carry out a concise and informative error analysis
- prepare a concise, complete, readable and properly referenced report
- write an executive summary
- discuss the importance of safety in all aspects of chemical engineering
- describe the principle of Inherent Safety
- define the concepts of Risk and Hazard
- describe the main types of hazard in chemical processes - fire, explosion and toxic release - and state how these hazards may be controlled
- describe the basic elements of Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) analysis
- develop a control strategy for and place control loops on simple flowsheets involving several items of equipment
- develop simple empirical mathematical models of process units
- tune controllers using experimental or simulation data
- use Aspen as a flowsheeting tool and describe other tools available
- discuss the pros and cons of spreadsheets
- describe the symbolic maths packages available and use basic functions of Maple
- write simple web-based programmes