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Process plant design projects
Course ContentThis 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 such as, choice of process, development of a process flow diagram, material and energy balances, development of a control strategy and a Piping and Instrumentation diagram and an economic evaluation of the project. The major project also provides experience in working in groups, an important skill for life after university. Relation to Other CoursesStudents should have completed ENCH394 Process Engineering Design 2 and ENCH497 Process Management. ENCH391 Process Systems and Control also provides useful background information on control strategy development.WorkloadMajor project report and presentations and safety assessment case. Students should expect to work for 20 hours a week during semester 2 on their major design project.
a pass in all Second Professional Year courses, ENCH497
ENCH463
Chris Williamson
Peter Gostomski
Assessment 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 design, on or before noon, 29th October. Students will make 4 presentations to their design managers during the course of their project (one in the third term and three in the fourth term and exam period). The first three will be group presentations where students in a design group will be given the same mark. In the final presentation each student will describe their personal contribution to the design project and be awarded an individual mark. The project report mark will be biased by peer assessment of an individual student’s contribution to the group effort. The basis for the peer assessment will be explained in tutorials.
Coulson, J. M. , Richardson, J. F; Chemical engineering ; Pergamon Press, 1954.
Douglas, James M; Conceptual design of chemical processes ; McGraw-Hill, 1988.
Domestic fee $1,617.00
International fee $9,100.00
* 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 .