ENCH494-25S2 (C) Semester Two 2025

Process Engineering Design 3

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 14 July 2025
End Date: Sunday, 9 November 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 27 July 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 28 September 2025

Description

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.

Prerequisites

a pass in all compulsory Second Professional Year courses, ENCH496 and ENCH497

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Executive Report 75% Executive Report including the safety assessment - Due 30 October
3 x Group Presentation (group) 15% Presentation 1 (5%) - Due 7-11 August: Presentation 2 (5%) - Due 11-15 September: Presentation 3 (5%) - Due 9-13 October
Presntation (Individual) 10% Presentation 4 - Individual contribution to the Design Project (10%)

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended Reading

Towler, Gavin P. , Sinnott, R. K; Chemical engineering design :principles, practice, and economics of plant and process design ; 2nd ed; Butterworth-Heinemann, 2013.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $2,393.00

International fee $12,000.00

* 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 .

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