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School: Engineering

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

  • Unit Title

    Process Engineering Fundamentals

  • Unit Code

    ENS2115

  • Year

    2020

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    4

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Prof Hongqi SUN

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.

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.
  2. Describe mass flow and perform measurements to determine it for a given system.
  3. Formulate and solve mass and energy balances for process systems with and without reactions.
  4. Make effective use of steam tables and psychrometric charts.
  5. Produce a clearly written engineering document.

Unit Content

  1. Mass flow and measurement.
  2. Flowsheets and systems concepts.
  3. Plant visits and field work.
  4. Mass balances on operating units and extension to flowsheets.
  5. Mass balance with reaction and applications.
  6. Steam tables and psychrometric charts.
  7. Energy flow concepts and energy balances without reactions.
  8. Energy balances with the use of psychrometric charts.
  9. Energy balances with reactions.
  10. Plant applications.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 113 x 1 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, tutorials and group based laboratory work.

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Laboratory WorkWeekly Quiz and Project Report40%
TestMid-semester test20%
Examination ^End of semester examination40%

^ Mandatory to Pass

Core Reading(s)

  • Himmelblau, D. M., & B., R. J. (2012). Basic principles and calculations in chemical engineering (8th ed.). Basic principles and calculations in chemical engineering (8th ed.). Prentice-Hall. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/768335614
  • Felder, R. M., & Rousseau, R. W. (2005). Elementary principles of chemical processes. (3rd ed.). New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/870402343?databaseList=638

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Engineering

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Process Engineering Fundamentals

  • Unit Code

    ENS2115

  • Year

    2020

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    4

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Prof Hongqi SUN

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.

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.
  2. Describe mass flow and perform measurements to determine it for a given system.
  3. Formulate and solve mass and energy balances for process systems with and without reactions.
  4. Make effective use of steam tables and psychrometric charts.
  5. Produce a clearly written engineering document.

Unit Content

  1. Mass flow and measurement.
  2. Flowsheets and systems concepts.
  3. Plant visits and field work.
  4. Mass balances on operating units and extension to flowsheets.
  5. Mass balance with reaction and applications.
  6. Steam tables and psychrometric charts.
  7. Energy flow concepts and energy balances without reactions.
  8. Energy balances with the use of psychrometric charts.
  9. Energy balances with reactions.
  10. Plant applications.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 113 x 1 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, tutorials and group based laboratory work.

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Laboratory WorkWeekly Quiz and Project Report40%
TestMid-semester test20%
Examination ^End of semester examination40%

^ Mandatory to Pass

Core Reading(s)

  • Himmelblau, D. M., & B., R. J. (2012). Basic principles and calculations in chemical engineering (8th ed.). Basic principles and calculations in chemical engineering (8th ed.). Prentice-Hall. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/768335614
  • Felder, R. M., & Rousseau, R. W. (2005). Elementary principles of chemical processes. (3rd ed.). New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/870402343?databaseList=638

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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