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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Process Engineering Fundamentals
  • Unit Code

    ENS6166
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Veena BOBADE

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

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

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

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Report ^Plant design report30%
TestMid-semester test20%
PortfolioGroup assignments40%
PresentationVerbal presentation on an approved research topic10%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Report ^Plant design report30%
AssignmentOpen book take home test with viva component20%
PortfolioGroup assignments40%
PresentationVerbal presentation on an approved research topic10%

^ Mandatory to Pass


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 Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Process Engineering Fundamentals
  • Unit Code

    ENS6166
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Alireza KESHAVARZ

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. Describe heat and mass flow and calculate them in a given system.
  2. Calculate heat and mass changes for processes with or without reactions, using basic reaction kinetics, steam tables and psychrometric charts.
  3. Describe the purpose of individual units within a plant in terms of changes to flows and materials.
  4. Work collaboratively to present a written and oral report to an engineering audience.
  5. Evaluate plant performance in relation to the latest technological advances.

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.

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentPlant design report and presentation30%
TestProgress quizzes10%
TestMid-semester test20%
Examination ^End of semester examination40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentPlant design report and presentation30%
TestProgress quizzes10%
TestMid-semester test20%
Examination ^End of semester examination40%

^ Mandatory to Pass


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 Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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