Undergraduate Course: Chemical Engineering in Practice 3 (CHEE09006)
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 9 (Year 3 Undergraduate) | 
Credits | 40 | 
 
| Home subject area | Chemical | 
Other subject area | None | 
   
| Course website | 
None | 
Taught in Gaelic? | No | 
 
| Course description | 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 process dynamics control are also taught in the context of process design. | 
 
 
Information for Visiting Students 
| Pre-requisites | None | 
 
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes | 
 
 
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2013/14  Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1) 
  
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Learn enabled:  Yes | 
Quota:  None | 
 
Web Timetable  | 
	
Web Timetable | 
 
| Course Start Date | 
13/01/2014 | 
 
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) | 
 
 Total Hours:
400
(
 Lecture Hours 11,
 Seminar/Tutorial Hours 10,
 Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 64,
 Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
307 )
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| Additional Notes | 
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) | 
 
  Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| No Exam Information | 
 
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  
-use Matlab to solve engineering problems. 
-Be able to develop simple dynamic models of process 
units and solve them using MATLAB. 
-Understand the importance of and how to measure 
transfer functions. 
-Be able to tune a controller. 
-Be able to identify possible control loops in chemical 
engineering. | 
 
 
Assessment Information 
This course is assessed by coursework submissions. The wighting of each component of the course is given below: 
15% control 
18% Laboratory reports (Long) 
11% Laboratory reports (Short) 
11% matlab Excercise 
45% Design |  
 
Special Arrangements 
| None |   
 
Additional Information 
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| Syllabus | 
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| Transferable skills | 
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| Reading list | 
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| Study Abroad | 
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Contacts 
| Course organiser | Dr Khellil Sefiane 
Tel: (0131 6)50 4873 
Email: k.sefiane@ed.ac.uk | 
Course secretary | Ms Tina Mcavoy 
Tel: (0131 6)51 7080 
Email: Tina.McAvoy@ed.ac.uk | 
   
 
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