ENEV 433 Environmental Process Operations (3)

Required course for majors in the environmental specialty.

 

Catalog Description:

Fundamental variables of environmental process operations; generalized treatment of mass-transfer operations including separation processes. Application of fundamental principles of continuous and stage-wise separation processes applicable to resource recovery, recycle and reuse. Design project. Fall semester. Lecture 3 hours.

 

Prerequisites:

ENGR 222, 307, 308, ENEV 331 with grades of C or better.   May be registered as ENCH 433.  Credit not allowed in both ENCH 433 and ENEV 433.

 

Textbook/References:

McCabe, R. L, J. C.Smith and P. Harriott, "Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering", McGraw-Hill, 6th ed., 2000.

Perry, R. H., C. H. Chilton, “Chemical Engineers’ Handbook, McGraw-Hill.

 

Course Objectives: (numbers in brackets indicate the relationship to engineering and environmental program outcomes)

Familiarize students with the theory and practice of various separations technologies, including continuous and stage-wise processes (2).  Promote lifelong learning skills through independent study projects in separations processes applicable to resource recovery and reuse (6). Promote effective communication through group design projects requiring written and oral reports (4,5).

 

Class/Laboratory Schedule:

Lecture either three times per week at 50 minutes per class, or two times per week at 65 minutes per class.

 

Topics Covered:

Week      Topic

    1          Stagewise and continuous contact processes.

    2          Leaching.

    3          Continued.

    4          Extraction.

    5          Continued.

    6          Single effect evaporation.

    7          Continued.

    8          Independent study reports.

    9          Multiple effect evaporation.

   10         Continued.

   11         Continued.

   12         Gas absorption.

   13         Continued.

   14         Continued.

   15         Design project presentations.

 

Contribution to Professional Component:

Contributes toward the 1.5 years of engineering topics as a 3 credit hour course in engineering sciences and engineering design.

 

Relationship of course to program outcomes

This course supports engineering outcome 2, 4, 5 and 6.

 

Prepared by:         Jim Cunningham, 04/02/03