ENCH291-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025

Mass and Energy Balances

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2025
End Date: Sunday, 22 June 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 2 March 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 11 May 2025

Description

Mass and energy balance calculations are the essential parts of the solution of many complex chemical engineering problems. They assist in the planning and design of processes, in the economic evaluation of the proposed and existing processes, in process control, and in process optimization. In this course, students will learn a systematic procedure for solving mass and energy balance problems including drawing and labelling for a flowchart, performing a degree-of-freedom analysis, making appropriate chemical engineering assumptions etc. Students will be able to analytically examine and predict the mass and energy balances around single or multiple unit operation(s) involving gases and liquids, recycle, bypass or purge streams with or without chemical reactions.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Dean of Engineering and Forestry.

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Final Exam 50% 60% - Mass Balance 20% and Energy Balance 40%
Mass Balance Assignment 1 18 Mar 2024 10%
Test - Mass Balance 26 Apr 2024 20%
Assignment 2 - Energy Balance 10 May 2024 10%
Assignment 3 - Energy Balance 31 May 2024 10%

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended Reading

Felder, Richard M. , Rousseau, Ronald W., Bullard, Lisa G; Elementary principles of chemical processes ; 4th edition; Wiley, 2016.

Smith, J. M. , Van Ness, H. C., Abbott, Michael M; Introduction to chemical engineering thermodynamics ; 7th ed; McGraw-Hill, 2005.

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 .

All ENCH291 Occurrences

  • ENCH291-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025