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 |
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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 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
| Not being delivered |
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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| Reading list |
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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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