This course is designed to introduce first year students to the building block of chemical engineering processes: the unit operation. The fundamentals of chemical plant design, process flow diagrams, and unit operations will be illustrated both by lecture and by laboratory experiments. The lecture component will focus on full-scale equipment used in industry and, in parallel, experiments using some of that same equipment will be undertaken at the bench-scale. A project to model an industrial chemical plant will be completed. The course will culminate in a field trip to a processing facility. Weekly hours: 1.5 Lecture hours and 1.5 Practicum/Lab hoursRestriction(s): Restricted to students in the College of Engineering. Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): CHEM 146.3 and GE 163.2
This course is designed to introduce first year students to the building block of chemical engineering processes: the unit operation. The fundamentals of chemical plant design, process flow diagrams, and unit operations will be illustrated both by lecture and by laboratory experiments. The lecture component will focus on full-scale equipment used in industry and, in parallel, experiments using some of that same equipment will be undertaken at the bench-scale. A project to model an industrial chemical plant will be completed. The course will culminate in a field trip to a processing facility. Weekly hours: 1.5 Lecture hours and 1.5 Practicum/Lab hoursRestriction(s): Restricted to students in the College of Engineering. Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): CHEM 146.3 and GE 163.2
