Handbook : Unit informationEdith Cowan University

Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science

School: Engineering

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• Unit Title

  Process Engineering Fundamentals

• Unit Code

  ENS2115

• Year

  2015

• Enrolment Period

  1

• Version

  3

• Credit Points

  15

• Full Year Unit

  N

• Mode of Delivery

  On Campus
  

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Description

This unit introduces students to the basic analytical tools of process engineers mass and energy balances. It also exposes students to the way process engineers work, think and communicate their ideas. It is a cornerstone unit for the chemical/process engineering discipline. Students will develop the skills to assemble the basic blocks of a plant by understanding the flows from one unit to another.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

1. Analyse any process as a system including defining sensible system boundaries and identifying all input and output streams in a range of contexts.
2. Describe the purpose of individual units within a plant in terms of changes to flows and materials.
3. Examine plant applications within an Indigenous Australian context.
4. Formulate and solve mass and energy balances for process systems with and without reactions.
5. Use basic features of process modelling software to construct simple flow diagrams of plants individually and as a team.
6. Use basic reaction kinetics, steam tables and psychrometric charts to calculate heat and mass changes in different processes.

Unit Content

1. Balance equations overview and applications.
2. Balance with reactions, generation or consumption and applications.
3. Coupled heat and mass balances.
4. Energy balances with the use of psychrometric charts.
5. Flowsheets and systems concepts.
6. Introduction to modelling software.
7. Mass balances on operating units and extension to flowsheets.
8. Non-steady-state processes in mass and energy balances
9. Plant applications within an indigenous context.
10. Steam tables and psychrometric charts.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, tutorials, team work, project-based learning, computational modelling.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

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Text References

• ^ Felder, R.M., & Rousseau, R.W. (2005). Elementary principles of chemical processes (5th ed.). New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons.
• ^ Himmelblau, D. M., & Riggs, J. B. (2012). Basic principles and calculations in chemical engineering (8th ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
• Solen, K.A., & Harb, J.N. (2011). Introduction to chemical engineering. Tools for today and tomorrow (5th ed.). New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons.
• Murphy, R.M. (2005). Introduction to chemical processes: principles, analysis, synthesis. Boston, MA: Mcgraw-Hill Science/Eng/Maths.
• Turton, R., Baille, R.C., Whiting, W.B., & Shaeiwitz, J.A. (2009). Analysis, synthesis and design of chemical processes (3rd ed.). New Jersey, NJ: Prentice Hall.
• Cengel, Y. A., Cimbala, J. M., & Turner, R. H. (2012). Fundamentals of thermal-fluid sciences (4th ed.). NY, USA: McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

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