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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 the experience of working in groups, an important skill for life after university. Students work in groups of four (sometimes five or three) on their design projects during semester 2. Each group must produce an executive report and hand in their working appendices at the completion of each major phase of the design. There are three report phases: two during the semester and the complete report (all phases) is due in mid-October (more details below). Students will make 3 assessed presentations to their design supervisors and course coordinator during their project (see schedule below). They will each be a group presentation where all the students in the design group will be given the same mark. In addition there will be weekly, unassessed, round table meetings and formal presentations as you might give to your boss at a consultancy. You will be provided feedback after each of these meetings that is meant to help facilitate continuous improvement for the team but will not contribute to the grade. The project report mark will be biased by peer- and supervisor-assessment of an individual student’s contribution to the group effort. The basis for the peer assessment will be explained in tutorials. There will also be an individual contribution assessed based on the specific contributions to detailed design, and other factors as outlined in the Marking Schedule document.
To apply the design process in a team environment to a real chemical engineering project includingDetermining the best choice of processCreating process engineering diagrams such as process flow diagrams, piping and instrumentation diagrams, and plant layout diagramsQuantifying material and energy balancesCreating a control strategyCreating a detailed design of a select unit operationEvaluating the economics of the projectHazOp assessment of a major unit operationEvaluating 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 and a workshop on time management. There will be tutorial sessions on the use of 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 (typically weekly), and presenting their work at regular intervals.
Matt James Watson
Major 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.
Towler, Gavin P. , Sinnott, R. K; Chemical engineering design :principles, practice, and economics of plant and process design ; 2nd ed; Butterworth-Heinemann, 2013.
J M Douglas, Conceptual Design of Chemical Processes, McGraw-Hill.Sinnott and Towler, (2019) Chemical Engineering Design, 6th ed, Butterworth-Heinemann
A pass in all compulsory Second Professional Year courses, ENCH496 and ENCH497.
Domestic fee $2,537.00
International fee $12,475.00
* 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 .