ENCH394-23S2 (C) Semester Two 2023

Process Engineering Design 2

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 July 2023
End Date: Sunday, 12 November 2023
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 30 July 2023
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 1 October 2023

Description

This course introduces students to key concepts of process design, including the detailed design of unit operations. The course builds on the topics covered in the 2nd year and ENCH390 Process Design 1 and begins to explores how unit operations can interact to shift the overall optimal operating conditions away from, say, the conditions that optimise a reactor alone. The course also extends the process safety concepts introduced in ENCH295 to cover quantitative analysis techniques and provides an introduction to materials engineering for chemical engineers. An introduction to engineering materials is also provided to guide students to select proper materials for their process design and future applications. Considering that most industry relies on technology, and the world is in patent war, an introduction to intellectual property will be given.

The following topics are taught in this course:
Safety (9L, 1 test, Rachael)
o consequence modelling
o risk reduction
o legal framework
Pinch analysis (5L, exam, Heon)
o various methods to perform pinch analysis
o how to integrate process to maximize energy recovery
o estimating energy saved by system integration
Process Design (4L, 1 assignment, Heon)
o considerations in process design
o hierarchical concept in process design
o how to utilise mass balance in process design
o Analysis on economic performance
Unisim (3L, 1 assignment, Heon)
o computer-aid designing
o optimising designed process
o comparison with hand-designed process
Intellectual property (3L, exam, Heon)
o Various types
o How to set up IP strategy
o How to avoid infringing other IPs
o How to search for prior IPs
o How to utilise prior IPs in the beginning of research or development and for problem solving
Materials (15L, 2 quizzes, exam, Heon)
o Mechanical properties
o Chemical properties
o Metals
o Polymers
o Ceramics, glasses
o Fibres, films, foams, insulators
o Selecting proper materials given applications

Learning Outcomes

  • Knowledge outcomes:

  • Evaluate safety of proposed processes.
  • Design systems to reduce the risk in industrial processes.
  • Understand and be capable of applying energy and material balance analysis in process engineering.
  • Rapidly analyse the economics of potential processes for the production of chemicals.
  • Optimise processes using process modelling software.
  • Perform pinch analysis to integrate processes and to save energy
  • Understand and be capable of securing and not infringing intellectual property.
  • Understand how microstructure influences material properties.
  • Classify materials based on measured properties.
  • Identify suitable materials for process applications.

    Transferable skills:

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

Prerequisites

Timetable Note

36 lectures and 4 computer labs/tutorials.

Students are expected to attend all lectures or to study Echo360 videos in case attending is not possible, spend 10 hours per week reviewing lecture contents, studying textbooks and references, making own notes, and preparing for labs. Students are also expected to spend 10 hours per assignment weighing 10%.

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.

Course Coordinator

Heon Park

Lecturer

Rachael Wood

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Final Exam 45% Weighting 45% - IP 5, pinch 15, materails 25.
Test (Safety) 18 Aug 2023 20%
Assignment 1 (Proc. Design) 15 Sep 2023 20%
Quiz 1 (Materials) 29 Sep 2023 2.5%
Assignment 2 (Unisim) 04 Oct 2023 10%
Quiz 2 (Materials) 16 Oct 2023 2.5%

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended Reading

Ashby, M. F; Materials selection in mechanical design ; 3rd ed; Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005.

Douglas, James M; Conceptual design of chemical processes ; McGraw-Hill, 1988.

Felder, Richard M. , Rousseau, Ronald W; Elementary principles of chemical processes ; 3rd ed., 2005 ed. with integrated media and study tools; Wiley, 2005.

George Murray; Handbook of Materials Selection for Engineering Applications ; Routledge, 2019.

Himmelblau, David Mautner , Riggs, James B; Basic principles and calculations in chemical engineering ; 7th ed. ; Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference, 2004.

Students should try to source books by themselves at UC library, its website or bookstore, and study by themselves.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,030.00

International fee $5,750.00

* 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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