ENCH390-24S1 (C) Semester One 2024

Process Engineering Design 1

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 19 February 2024
End Date: Sunday, 23 June 2024
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 3 March 2024
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 12 May 2024

Description

This is one of key courses in chemical engineering which covers methods for the quantitative analysis of chemical and process modelling and applications, unit operation and overall process mass and energy balances, optimisation, heat exchanger design, and sustainability assessment. It also includes guidelines for society and cultural implications of process decisions and how to engage with iwi and local communities, and some practical and effective guidelines on how to do this.

The following topics are taught in this course:
Process Modelling (12L, Daniel)
- types of models
- dynamic modelling of processes
- solution methods

Heat Exchanger Design (6L, Heon)
- design shell-tube heat exchanger
- design plate heat exchanger
- economic analysis

Optimisation (4L, Heon)
- object function, degree of freedom, global/local optimum,
- modelling, curve fitting and optimisation using Excel
- algorithms (genetic, Monte Carlo, Dijkstra, travelling salesman, discrete)
- case study: ethanol production

Sustainability (8L, Heon)
- how to calculate carbon foot print
- life cycle assessment
- quantitative measure of sustainability and metrics
- environment-related legislation, carbon neutral, emission trading, international agreements

Biculturalism (3 visits, Carlo):  Three on-site workshops (2 hours each)
- how indigenous identity and historical narratives are being woven into the new Ōtautahi Christchurch streetscape.
- introduction to Māori social structures, values, tūrangawaewae, mihi development and tikanga Māori;
- how, as engineers, students should go about engaging with mana whenua and stakeholders

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge Outcomes
- Be capable of unit conversion commonly encountered in engineering
- Understand and be capable of developing models for chemical process operations.
- Design heat exchangers for process applications
- Understand and be capable of performing optimisations for single or multiple variables with constraints.
- Understand and be capable of analysing sustainability in process industry.
- Understand how process design and operation may be viewed from different cultural perspectives and be capable of developing effective methods of engaging with local community and iwi groups.
- Understand who our mana whenua are in the Canterbury region (including social structure, values, historical and current situation).
- Understand and propose effective engagement strategies with Māori, including familiarity with tikanga Māori

Transferable skills
- Independent problem solving
- Team working and interpersonal relation
- Communication of complex idea to peers
- Managing tasks timely not to cram
- Handle stress during treating with real world problems under time pressure
- Simple economic analysis
- Approaching problems rationally
- Sourcing necessary information, data, literature, equipment, and materials

Timetable 2024

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Tuesday 16:00 - 17:00 Rehua 002 Lectorial
19 Feb - 31 Mar
22 Apr - 19 May
Lecture B
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Monday 16:00 - 17:00 Rehua 101 Lectorial
19 Feb - 31 Mar
22 Apr - 26 May
Lecture C
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Thursday 13:00 - 14:00 E16 Lecture Theatre
19 Feb - 31 Mar
29 Apr - 19 May
Lecture D
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Thursday 11:00 - 13:00 Rehua 101 Lectorial
20 May - 26 May
Lecture E
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Wednesday 11:00 - 13:00 Rehua 101 Lectorial
20 May - 26 May
Lecture F
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Friday 15:00 - 17:00 Rehua 101 Lectorial
20 May - 26 May

Timetable Note

30 lectures and 3 local visits

Students are expected to attend all lectures or to study Echo360 videos if attendance is not possible, spend 6 hours per week reviewing lecture contents, studying textbooks and references, making own notes, and preparing for labs. Students are also expected to spend about 1 hour per assignment mark.

Students should consider mid-semester break as catching up time, not holidays. Thus, this period should be utilised for reviewing, previewing, and preparing for assessments.

In addition to 30 regular lectures, the bicultural section will be taught by guest lecturers with visiting Māori engineering engagement experts. The day-long marae visit will involve lectures and discussions sessions primarily run by local iwi, Beca, with assistance from our AVC Māori.

Course Coordinator

Heon Park

Lecturers

Daniel Holland and Carlo Carere

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Final Exam 40% Modelling 20% and Sustainability 20%
Assignment 1: Process Modelling 08 Mar 2024 5%
Assignment 2: Heat Exchangers 29 Mar 2024 20%
Assignment 3: Process Modelling 26 Apr 2024 10%
Assignment 4: Optimisation 10 May 2024 10%
Online quiz: biculturalism 28 May 2024 5% Lecture date
Assignment 5: Biculturalism 31 May 2024 10%

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,059.00

International fee $6,000.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Chemical and Process Engineering .

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