Undergraduate Course: Chemical Engineering Design 3 (CHEE09015)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 9 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | Design is fundamental for chemical engineers. Design requires the integration of technical knowledge and skills from all parts of the curriculum, from thermodynamics to fluid mechanics to kinetics and catalysis, all with awareness of issues around safety, ethics and the environment. Building on similarly named courses in 1st and 2nd year,Chemical Engineering Design 3 allows students to apply fundamental chemical engineering knowledge and skills to the elementary design of chemical plant and to appreciate the relationships between disparate parts of the curriculum. |
| Course description |
The lectures include the following topics:
- Basis of Design for a continuous process
- Storage of feed and products, including COMAH regulations and notifiable inventories
- Utilities and waste management
- Plant layout, including consideration of atmospheric dispersion modelling
- Short-cut design of an aerobic digester
- Hazard and Operability study/analysis (HAZOP)
- Quantitative aspects of safety with an emphasis on consequences, including fire safety, explosions, cost¿benefit analysis, fault and event trees, and LOPA
Seminars support the lectures and allow for formative feedback to be provided on coursework assignments. The assignments include creating a practicable PFD from a BFD and a process description, creating plan and elevation layout drawings for a plant, designing a unit operation using both shortcut methods and the UniSim software package, and applying hazard identification and risk assessment methodologies to a real process.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | Printing |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2026/27, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Full Year |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 24,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 7,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 19,
Formative Assessment Hours 1,
Summative Assessment Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
143 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Written Exam %: 0
Practical Exam %: 0
Coursework %: 100
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| Feedback |
Not entered |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Produce practicable process flow diagrams with feasible operating conditions from rudimentary process descriptions
- Design and specify simple layouts for chemical plants
- Develop preliminary process designs of a range of chemical plant equipment
- Apply a range of hazard identification and risk assessment methodologies such as HAZOP, LOPA and fault/event tree analysis
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Reading List
Sinnott, R. & Towler, G. (2019). Chemical Engineering Design: SI Edition (6th Edition).
Coulson & Richardson's Chemical Engineering Series, Butterworth-Heinemann |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Special Arrangements |
None |
| Keywords | Chemical Engineering Design |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Kevin Hanley
Tel: (0131 6)50 5712
Email: K.Hanley@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr Mark Owenson
Tel: (0131 6)50 5533
Email: Mark.Owenson@ed.ac.uk |
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