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 Systems Analysis
  • Unit Code

    ENS6167
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Gordon LUCAS

Description

This unit introduces students to a systems approach to analysing and understanding the structure and behaviour of industrial processes. The context and requirements that give rise to process systems are examined along with the concepts of unit operations and unit processes. The nature of individual units and complex flowsheets is explored through analysis of degrees of freedom and solvability issues. Techniques for the decomposition of large, complex systems to smaller problems are developed. The application of computer-aided flowsheeting tools to facilitate process analysis, including economic factors, environmental impacts, sensitivity studies, and overall optimisation is also covered.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from ENS6166

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ENS5555

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Describe and explain basic complex systems analysis processes.
  2. Describe and explain the usefulness and limitations of process simulation packages and relate how the results from simulation reflect the real situation.
  3. Determine the overall input-output structure of a process including carrying out economic potential calculations to determine various measures of profitability.
  4. Identify and describe the impact and significance of operational, technical, economic, safety and environmental issues on process goals.
  5. Interpret process descriptions and transfer technical and risk management information into a variety of process engineering diagrams using conventional notation and symbols.
  6. Perform analysis of complex flowsheets including material and energy balance, degrees of freedom, and decomposition and tear structures for processes with recycles individually and as part of an engineering team.
  7. Research new developments in the field of process systems analysis and reflect critically on their significance to engineering practice.
  8. Simulate and critically interpret sizeable process flowsheets using the Aspen Plus (or similar) simulator.

Unit Content

  1. Formal description of processes and process engineering diagrams.
  2. Input-output structure of processes and economic potential calculations.
  3. Operating and design parameters and equipment selection.
  4. Process flowsheets- material and energy balance, degrees of freedom, and decomposition and tear structures.
  5. Process simulation - use and limitations.
  6. Process systems and goals -operational, technical, economic, safety and environmental issues.
  7. Simulation of process flowsheets.
  8. Structure and behaviour of industrial processes.
  9. The process as a system.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 1 hour labNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 1 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 1 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars, modelling and simulation laboratories, team based design 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 Work ^Laboratory reports20%
ReportDesign reports40%
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 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 Systems Analysis
  • Unit Code

    ENS6167
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Gordon LUCAS

Description

This unit introduces students to a systems approach to analysing and understanding the structure and behaviour of industrial processes. The context and requirements that give rise to process systems are examined along with the concepts of unit operations and unit processes. The nature of individual units and complex flowsheets is explored through analysis of degrees of freedom and solvability issues. Techniques for the decomposition of large, complex systems to smaller problems are developed. The application of computer-aided flowsheeting tools to facilitate process analysis, including economic factors, environmental impacts, sensitivity studies, and overall optimisation is also covered.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from ENS6166

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ENS5555

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Describe and explain basic complex systems analysis processes.
  2. Describe and explain the usefulness and limitations of process simulation packages and relate how the results from simulation reflect the real situation.
  3. Determine the overall input-output structure of a process including carrying out economic potential calculations to determine various measures of profitability.
  4. Identify and describe the impact and significance of operational, technical, economic, safety and environmental issues on process goals.
  5. Interpret process descriptions and transfer technical and risk management information into a variety of process engineering diagrams using conventional notation and symbols.
  6. Perform analysis of complex flowsheets including material and energy balance, degrees of freedom, and decomposition and tear structures for processes with recycles individually and as part of an engineering team.
  7. Research new developments in the field of process systems analysis and reflect critically on their significance to engineering practice.
  8. Simulate and critically interpret sizeable process flowsheets using the Aspen Plus (or similar) simulator.

Unit Content

  1. Formal description of processes and process engineering diagrams.
  2. Input-output structure of processes and economic potential calculations.
  3. Operating and design parameters and equipment selection.
  4. Process flowsheets- material and energy balance, degrees of freedom, and decomposition and tear structures.
  5. Process simulation - use and limitations.
  6. Process systems and goals -operational, technical, economic, safety and environmental issues.
  7. Simulation of process flowsheets.
  8. Structure and behaviour of industrial processes.
  9. The process as a system.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 1 hour labNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 1 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 1 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars, modelling and simulation laboratories, team based design 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 WorkLaboratory reports20%
ReportDesign reports40%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseVirtual laboratory activities20%
ReportDesign reports40%
AssignmentSummative assessment of unit content40%

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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