Undergraduate Course: Chemistry and Processes 2 (CHEE08007)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 8 (Year 2 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Chemical |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | Work visits component: The course involves an introduction to the plants and processes to be visited, a literature search on the process, a site visit that involves a question and answer session with plant engineers and a reporting back session involving oral presentation and a written report.
Chemistry components: The course covers the following topics: quantum theory, infrared and NMR spectroscopy, aromatic chemistry, and industrial organic chemistry. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
Students should be able to:
Work visits component
read a process flowsheet, identify plant items and discuss the reasons for particular operating conditions chosen; work together as a group to delegate tasks and prepare oral presentations and written reports; prepare a succinct written report, relying as much as possible on informative diagrams to reduce word count; talk for 10 minutes on an assigned topic
Chemistry component
- Describe and explain the fundamental principles of quantum theory, infrared and NMR spectroscopy, aromatic chemistry, and industrial organic chemistry.
- Account for the stability, structure, and reactivity of benzene, its simple derivatives, and polycyclic analogues.
- Identify and explain the synthetic principles which enable the conversion of simple benzene derivatives into more complex molecules
- Outline the principles of quantum mechanics and their significance to modern experimental and theoretical chemistry.
- Carry out calculations on simple systems, such as a particle in a one-dimensional box.
- Describe the absorption and emission of electromagnetic radiation by atoms and molecules in terms of energy level diagrams and selection rules
- Describe how energy is distributed within molecules and use the Boltzmann distribution to calculate the relative populations of energy levels.
- Describe the electronic states and spectra of hydrogenic atoms.
- Identify the characteristic absorption bands of functional groups in the infrared spectra of organic molecules
- Use spectroscopic data to determine the vibrational frequency, bond strength and bond length of diatomic molecules.
- describe the process whereby electromagnetic radiation interacts with matter.
- explain the key concepts of vibrational spectroscopy and derive structural information from group and skeletal vibrational frequencies. |
Assessment Information
| Two and half hour degree exam at end of semester (80%) and works visits (20%) |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Khellil Sefiane
Tel: (0131 6)50 4873
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Course secretary | Miss Lucy Davie
Tel: (0131 6)50 5687
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