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A group project, where students have the opportunity to go through all the steps of designing a process plant including feedstock and process selections, mass and energy balances, control strategy, project economics, process safety, environmental impact, and community engagement.
This course provides students with a close to real world experience of process engineering. It is built around a major design project where students have the opportunity to go through all the steps of a real design project as outlined in the learning outcomes below. The major project also provides experience in working in groups, an important skill for life after university. Students work in groups of four (or three) on this design during semester 2. Each group must produce an executive report to given specifications and hand in workbooks-folders with this at the completion of the each major section of the design. The final part is due on or before Monday, 29th October. Students will make 3 presentations to their design supervisors during the course of their project (one in the third term and two in the fourth term and exam period). They will be group presentations where students in a design group will be given the same mark. In the final individually written assessment, each student will describe their personal contribution to the design project and will be awarded an individual mark. The project report mark will be biased by peer-, supervisor-, and self-assessment of an individual student’s contribution to the group effort. The basis for the peer assessment will be explained in tutorials.
To apply the design process in a team environment to a real chemical engineering project including• Determining the best choice of process• Creating process engineering diagrams such as process flow diagrams, piping and instrumentation diagrams, and plant layout diagrams• Quantifying material and energy balances• Creating a control strategy• Creating a detailed design of a select unit operation• Evaluating the economics of the project• HazOp assessment of a major unit operation• Evaluating the impact the process will have on the surrounding community • Practice professional skills such as working in a team, effectively communicating technical data in written and oral presentations, and time management.
a pass in all compulsory Second Professional Year courses, ENCH496 and ENCH497
Students must attend one activity from each section.
There will be initial tutorials to assign groups of students to projects and project supervisors, explain assessment and to begin the design. There will be a series of workshops on working in teams. There will be a tutorial session on the use of a process modelling software (UniSim), and there will be a seminar and small group session on Te Ao Māori. During the semester, students will work in groups on their projects, meeting regularly with their project supervisors, and presenting their work at regular intervals.
Matt James Watson
Towler, Gavin P. , Sinnott, R. K; Chemical engineering design :principles, practice, and economics of plant and process design ; 2nd ed; Butterworth-Heinemann, 2013.
A pass in all compulsory Second Professional Year courses, ENCH496 and ENCH497.
Domestic fee $2,689.00
International fee $12,975.00
* 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 .