15 courses in the 1964–65 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
CHE 54Chemical Engineering Analysis
The assembling of often unrelated problems into groups related to base mathematical methods will be stressed. The application of analytic and computational methods to chemical engin-- eering problems in analysis, design and optimization will be examined. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor.
3 lectures, one term.
61, Industrial Economics. Market surveys, estimation of capital and operating costs of a new product or process. Economic feasability studies and projected economic evaluation for processes in the various stages of research, development, and design. Appraisal of capital expenditures.
The undergraduate curriculum is co-ordinated and brought together to accomplish the basic objective of the process engineer, the design of an integrated chemical process.
Prerequisites: All Chemical Engineering required courses.
Experimental studies with pilot plant equipment in the representative unit operations: evaporation, distillation, absorption, extraction, drying, humidification and reactors.
Prerequisites: ChE 13, ChE 71. 6 hours laboratory, one term.
Graduate study and research may be pursued in the areas of Mass and Heat Transfer, Reaction Kinetics and Catalysis, Transport Phenomena, Thermodynamics, Process Dynamics and Control, and Computational Methods in Chemical Engineering.
Examples from the current research programme are Heat and Mass Transfer from spheres and other shapes under combined natural and forced convection; Turbulent heat transfer and studies on the transition of the boundary layer; Fluid mechanics and heat transfer studies in solid-gas systems; Heat transfer with chemical reactions; Thermal radiation to porous surfaces with thin liquid films; Unit operations with coupled heat and mass transport such as spray drying; Application of monomolecular films to evaporation reduction; Dye catalyzed photoxidation with the objective of application to photo-electrochemical cells; Mechanisms of catalyzed reactions in solution; Investigation of the rate determining steps in complex heterogeneous reactions; Studies of the contribution of surface diffusion in catalysis; Models for the pyrolysis of hydrocarbons and petroleum fractions; Effectiveness factors for complex reactions; Chemical process systems theory with particular emphasis on the identification and optimal prediction problem related to non-stationary systems.
Analysis of unsteady state heat transfer in complex systems. Examination of high velocity and/or high temperature system. Coupled mass and heat transfer as in boiling, transpiration and ablation.
A treatment from the engineering viewpoint of the volumetric and phase behaviour of pure substances and multicomponent systems at physical and chemical equilibrium. Estimation of thermodynamic properties from a knowledge of molecular structure. Emphasis will be on the application of these principles to the solution of problems in industrial practice.
Design and scale up of homogeneous flow reactors allowing for non ideal mixing, various residence time distributions, back mixing.
Prerequisite: Chem. Eng. 42
2 lectures, 2 tutorials every other week.
One term.
Department of Chemcial Engineering
644, Physical Processes in Catalysis. Examination of the role of diffusion, adsorption, physical structure of the catalyst on rate and selectivity. Prerequisite: Chem. Eng. 43
The definition of the optimization problem in design and control. Introduction to applications of steepest ascent, calculus of variations and mathematical programming.
Dynamic characterization of the process complex by experimental and simulation techniques. Non-linear, distributed parameter, positive feedback effects. Dynamics as a tool in advanced process theory and analysis.
A basic knowledge of the Laplace and Fourier transformations as well as some familiarity with the elements of probability theory are assumed. The theory of random processes will be examined. The methods of analysis and synthesis of systems subjected to stationary random inputs will be developed..