ChemE 310 - Material and Energy Balances

Course Description

Credits: 4.  Chemical and physical process calculations: steady- and unsteady-state material and energy balances with specific examples in vapor-liquid contact operations and multiphase extraction, and introductory thermochemistry. Offered: A.

Designation

Prerequisites

Textbook

Required:  Richard Felder and Ronald Rousseau, Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes, New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2000.

Optional: Thomas J. Glover, Pocket Ref, Colorado: Sequoia Publishing, 2005.

Course Objectives

1. Be able to formulate and solve material balance problems for non-reactive systems.
2. Be able to formulate and solve material balance problems involving reactive systems.
3. Be able to solve problems involving non-ideal gas behavior.
4. Be able to understand simple phase equilibrium and solve problems.
5. Be able to formulate and solve energy balance problems for non-reactive systems.
6. Be able to formulate and solve energy balance problems for reactive systems.
7. Introduce students to unsteady state problems.
8. Be able to use spreadsheets for solving mass and energy balance problems.

1. Introduction to Chemical Engineering (1 lecture)
2. Calculations, Units, Reaction Stoichiometry (3 lectures)
3. Problem Solving Techniques (1 lecture)
4. Material Balances without Reaction (2 lectures)
5. Material Balances with and without Reaction (3 lectures)
6. Real Gas Relations (3 lectures)
7. Phase Equilibrium (4 lectures)
8. Energy Balances without Reaction (3 lectures)
9. Energy Balances with Reaction (2 lectures)
10. Energy Balances with Phase Change (2 lectures)
11. Unsteady State Balances (2 lectures)

• 3  Lectures per week 
• 1   Recitation/ problem solving session per week
  • (Class broken into two sections)
• 1   Computer Recitation per week
  • (Class broken into two sections, part of the quarter)

(a)   An ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering.

(c) The graduate should have an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability.

(e)   An ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems related to Materials and Energy  Balances.

(k)   An ability to use the techniques, skills and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.