ENCH395-25W (C) Whole Year 2025

Process Engineering Laboratories

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2025
End Date: Sunday, 9 November 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 16 March 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 24 August 2025

Description

Laboratory and pilot-plant experiments, design and analysis of experiments using statistical methods, and computational tools useful for analysing data.

Laboratory and pilot-plant experiments, design and analysis of experiments using statistical methods, and computational tools useful for analysing data.

This is a compulsory course for Chemical and Process Engineering. This course builds on the skills acquired in second year chemical engineering laboratories, extending the range of reporting, allowing the student to take more initiative, and generally increasing the size of the plant used to pilot scale. The experiments are related to other ENCH 300 series courses currently being studied.

Learning Outcomes

• Practical demonstration of hardware, concepts and phenomena in relation to the broader context of a process engineering system.
• Solve open ended chemical engineering problems by researching, designing, planning and conducting experiments.
• Gather, manage, interpret and use experimental information appropriately.
• Effective communication using a variety of formats to a variety of audiences.
• Function effectively in a team environment by working cooperatively with your lab partner

Prerequisites

Timetable Note

• 6 laboratory days with contact time 3-6 hours each, time of report preparation 10-25 hours for different report styles, total 130 hours

• Lecture attendance (approximately 15 hours)

Course Coordinator

Peter Gostomski

Lab Coordinator

Ben Reynolds

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Lab A - P&ID Drawing 5% A lab on P&IDs of CAPE's distillation column (approx 2 hours). Semester 1, Term 1
Lab B - Heat Exchanger 20% Management report 1. Report to management (due 1 week after the lab). Semester 1, term 2
Lab C - Spray Drier 20% Management report 2. Report to management (due 1 week after the lab). Semester 2, term 3
Lab D - Fermentation lab 35% Formal report. A longer in depth analysis of results. Students will supplement their fermentation data with class data and perform augmented statistical analysis. Final report will be submitted ~4 weeks after the experiment
Lab E - Membrane filtration 10% Short formal report. A rapidly-executed industrial report to immediate superior. The report is due on the same day that the lab is completed.
Lab F - Distillation 10% Short formal report. A short industrial report to immediate superior.


During the course you will attend all 6 labs in small groups. Reports are to be written individually, unless otherwise explicitly specified by the course coordinator / lab coordinator.  All labs must be carried out adequately, and all lab reports must be submitted to complete the course. 50% of your grade will be deducted for a late submission.

Notes

All information about academic policies (e.g. special consideration, dishonest practice) can be found on the ENCH-Undergraduate LEARN page.

Additional Course Outline Information

Attendance

Must attend all labs.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,122.00

International fee $6,238.00

* 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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