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
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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 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: 2010/11 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| King's Buildings | Lecture | | 1-11 | | 15:00 - 15:50 | | | | | King's Buildings | Lecture | | 1-11 | | 10:00 - 13:00 | | | | | King's Buildings | Laboratory | | 1-11 | 15:00 - 17:00 | | | | | | King's Buildings | Laboratory | | 1-11 | 10:00 - 13:00 | | | | | | King's Buildings | Tutorial | | 1-11 | | | | | 14:00 - 14:50 | | King's Buildings | Laboratory | | 1-11 | 14:00 - 14:50 | | | | |
| First Class |
Week 1, Monday, 15:00 - 17:00, Zone: King's Buildings. TLG, Fleeming Jenkin Building |
| 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
- 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
-use Matlab to solve engineering problems. |
Assessment Information
| This course is assessed by coursework submissions |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
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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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| Study Pattern |
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| Keywords |
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Contacts
| Course organiser |
Dr Khellil Sefiane
Tel: (0131 6)50 4873
Email: ksefiane@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Miss Nicola Marshall
Tel: (0131 6)50 5687
Email: Nicola.Marshall@ed.ac.uk |
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