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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.

  • Unit Title

    Process Engineering Fundamentals

  • Unit Code

    ENS6166

  • Year

    2018

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Ataollah NOSRATI

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.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ENS5554

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. Calculate heat and mass changes in different processes using basic reaction kinetics, steam tables and psychrometric charts.
  3. Construct simple flow diagrams of plants individually and as a team using basic features of process modelling software.
  4. Describe the purpose of individual units within a plant in terms of changes to flows and materials.
  5. Evaluate plant performance in terms of the latest technological developments.
  6. Formulate and solve mass and energy balances for process systems with and without reactions.
  7. Provide a reflective analysis on the current and future trends of engineering practice in plant analysis.

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 and advanced case studies.
  10. Steam tables and psychrometric charts.

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 labNot OfferedNot Offered
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

Seminars and project-based learning.

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
Report ^Plant design report30%
TestMid-semester test20%
PortfolioGroup assignments40%
Presentation ^Verbal presentation on an approved research topic10%

^ Mandatory to Pass

Core Reading(s)

  • Himmelblau, D. M., & Riggs, J. B. (2012). Basic principles and calculations in chemical engineering. (8th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
  • Felder, R. M., & Rousseau, R. W. (2005). Elementary principles of chemical processes. (3rd ed.). New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons.

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.

  • Unit Title

    Process Engineering Fundamentals

  • Unit Code

    ENS6166

  • Year

    2018

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Ataollah NOSRATI

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.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ENS5554

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. Calculate heat and mass changes in different processes using basic reaction kinetics, steam tables and psychrometric charts.
  3. Construct simple flow diagrams of plants individually and as a team using basic features of process modelling software.
  4. Describe the purpose of individual units within a plant in terms of changes to flows and materials.
  5. Evaluate plant performance in terms of the latest technological developments.
  6. Formulate and solve mass and energy balances for process systems with and without reactions.
  7. Provide a reflective analysis on the current and future trends of engineering practice in plant analysis.

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 and advanced case studies.
  10. Steam tables and psychrometric charts.

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 labNot OfferedNot Offered
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

Seminars and project-based learning.

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
Report ^Plant design report30%
TestMid-semester test20%
PortfolioGroup assignments40%
Presentation ^Verbal presentation on an approved research topic10%

^ Mandatory to Pass

Core Reading(s)

  • Himmelblau, D. M., & Riggs, J. B. (2012). Basic principles and calculations in chemical engineering. (8th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
  • Felder, R. M., & Rousseau, R. W. (2005). Elementary principles of chemical processes. (3rd ed.). New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons.

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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