Steady and unsteady state conduction, convective heat transfer. Design of condensers, heat exchangers, evaporators, and other types of heat transfer equipment. Design applications in humidification, gas absorption, distillation, extraction, adsorption, and ion exchange. 3 Application of chemical engineering process and unit operation principles in small scale semi-commercial equipment. Data from experimental observations are used to evaluate performance and efficiency of operations.
Emphasis is placed on correct presentation of results in report form.
3 Fundamentals of chemical reaction kinetics and their application to the design and operation of chemical reactors. Reaction rate theory, homogeneous reactions in batch and flow systems, heterogeneous reactions and catalysis, biochemical reactions. Catalytic reactor design. 3 Dynamic response applied to process systems. Goal and modes of control, Laplace transformations, analysis and synthesis of simple control systems, closed loop response, dynamic testing.