ENCH494-15S2 (C) Semester Two 2015

Process Engineering Design 3

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 13 July 2015
End Date: Sunday, 15 November 2015
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 26 July 2015
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 11 October 2015

Description

Process plant design projects.

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 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.

Prerequisites

a pass in all Second Professional Year courses, ENCH497

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Chris Williamson

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Assignment 75% Executive Report including safety assessment.
Group Presentations 15% 3 at 5%
Individual Presentation 10%


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.

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 Monday, 2nd  November.  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.

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Towler, Gavin P. , Sinnott, R. K., ScienceDirect (Online service); Chemical engineering design : : principles, practice, and economics of plant and process design ; 2nd ed; Elsevier Science, 2012 ((1st edition is available as an ebook from the library)).

Recommended Reading

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

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,976.00

International fee $9,450.00

* 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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