ENEV 435
Environmental Processes Laboratory (1)
Required course
for majors in the environmental specialty.
Catalog Description:
Laboratory exercises in environmental operations, such as
stripping, flooding and gas absorption, drying of solids, flow in porous media,
and filtration. Design projects. Fall semester. Laboratory 3 hours. Prerequisites: ENGR 222, ENEV 331 with
grades of C or better. Corequisites: ENEV 433, 437. May be registered as ENCH
435. Credit not allowed in both
ENCH 435 and ENEV 435.
Prerequisites:
ENGR 222, ENEV 331 with grades of C or
better.
Corequisite:
ENEV 433, 437
Textbook/References:
McCabe, Smith & Harriott.
Web
site with complete assignments and schedule: http://chem.engr.utc.edu/435
Course Objectives: (numbers in parentheses indicate the relationship to engineering
program outcomes)
Familiarize students with operation of and experiments
with chemical process systems.
·
Students will be
able to use engineering principles and modern engineering tools to identify,
analyze, and solve engineering problems involving material and energy balances
on process systems (2).
·
Students will be
able to design and conduct experiments, collect, analyze and interpret data,
and use modern computer-based tools to evaluate problems involving the behavior
of process systems. (3).
·
Students will be
able to design systems, components, or processes to meet customer
specifications using a structured design process involving a process system
(4).
·
Students will be
able to work in multi-disciplinary teams and to communicate effectively
(5).
Class/Laboratory Schedule:
Weekly assignments. Most of the
assignments are synchronous, all students present at the same time. Meetings
are typically 3 hours per week. Some
assignments are asynchronous, allowing students to complete the work on their
own schedule.
Topics Covered:
Experiments
with a selection of the following: packed bed absorption (fluid dynamics and
separation phenomena), batch dryer (transient heat exchange with evaporation),
flow through porous media, filter press, gas fired water heater (combustion,
heat transfer), adsorption (pressure swing adsorption purification of oxygen),
sieve separation, dehumidifier operation (psychrometrics, material balances),
wet cooling towers (3-ton laboratory unit, 100-ton building unit and a 5000-con
campus system), dry cooling tower (100-ton building unit), distillation
(12-tray, continuous or batch experiments), heat transfer (shell and tube heat
exchanger), chemical reaction (batch, CSTR and plug flow, methyl violet fading
with NaOH).
Contribution to Professional Component:
Contributes toward the 1.5 years of engineering topics
as a 1 credit hour course in engineering sciences. Contributes to the
general education written and oral communication requirements that complement
the technical content of the curriculum and is consistent with the program and
institution objectives.
Relationship of course to program outcomes
This
course supports engineering outcomes 2, 3, 4 and 5.
Prepared by: Dr. Jim Henry,