ENCH 435 Chemical
Processes Laboratory (1)
Required course
for majors in the chemical engineering specialty.
Catalog Description:
Laboratory exercises in chemical operations, such as binary
distillation, batch distillation, stripping, rectification, flooding and gas
absorption. Design projects. Fall semester. Laboratory
3 hours. Prerequisites: ENGR 222, ENCH 332 with grades of C or better.
Corequisites: ENCH 432, 433. May be registered as ENEV 435. Credit not allowed in both ENCH 435 and ENEV
435.
Prerequisites:
ENGR 222, ENCH 332 with grades of C or better.
Corequisite:
ENCH 432, 433
Text book/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: distillation (12-tray, continuous or batch
experiments), heat transfer (shell and tube heat exchanger), packed bed
absorption (fluid dynamics and separation phenomena), batch dryer (transient
heat exchange with evaporation), flow through porous media, chemical reaction
(batch, CSTR and plug flow. methyl violet fading with NaOH) filter press, gas
fired water heater (combustion, heat transfer), adsorption (pressure swing
adsorption purification of oxygen), wet cooling towers (3-ton laboratory unit,
100-ton building unit and a 5000-con campus system), dry cooling tower (100-ton
building unit), dehumidifier operation (psychrometrics, material balances) and
sieve separation.
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,