CPE2012   Chemical Engineering Design   (30 credits)

Description

The unit aims to provide students with a knowledge of methods for the selection, design and specification of chemical plant equipment. It aims to build on the simple concepts of mass and energy balances together with stoichiometry, to equip students with the background and experience necessary to tackle straightforward but open ended design problems involving a range of chemical reactor types of industrial relevance. The unit provides an introduction to chemical process design starting with flow-sheeting and progressing to the selection and mechanical design of hardware associated with a unit operation. The unit aims to develop an understanding of chemical reactors, relating molecular-level processes with engineering-scale equipment, thus designing large scale equipment truly from first principles rather than empirical rules of thumb. The unit also considers the behaviour of small solid particles, building from the study of a few molecules or atoms, to crystals and then to whole particles, and providing a foundation for further particle studies. It aims to show how material taught in these and other courses can be applied to a realistic industrial situation, and how students can work in a group to solve a design problem.

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