Fundamentals and principles of chemical engineering; analysis and synthesis of chemical and biochemical processes, material and energy balances for...
Properties of pure substances; equations of state; heat and work conversions; internal energy and enthalpy; the first law of thermodynamics; entropy;...
Maxwell relations; Clapeyron equation; residual properties; phase rule and Gibbs law; phase equilibrium and its criteria; real gas solubility;...
Principal methods of measuring temperature, pressure, humidity, fluid flow rate, viscosity, liquid level, density and specific gravity, diffusion...
Introduction to fluid mechanics; fluid properties; fluid statics; types of flow; Bernoulli equation; energy equation; head losses; linear momentum...
Steady-state conduction; transient conduction; lumped and distributed systems; thermal and hydrodynamic boundary layer concepts; forced convection...
Relations between the structure of crystalline and amorphous materials and their properties; measurement of mechanical properties; processing of...
Mass transfer fundamentals including molecular and convective mass transfer; molecular diffusion in fluids and solids; mass transfer coefficients and...
Biological systems for the production of commercial goods and services such as agriculture and foods, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, fuels, equipment,...
Chemical kinetics; differential and integral rate laws; rate equations for elementary, complex and multiple reactions; kinetics in batch and flow...
Operation and analysis of pilot plant type equipment for various industrial operations with emphasis on mechanical separations, filtration,...
Separation processes involving single and multiple staged, and continuous contacting operations for gas-liquid, and solid-fluid systems; process...
Definitions and classifications of mathematical models; macroscopic and microscopic conservation equations for mass, energy and momentum; solution...
Probability; binomial, normal and Poisson distributions; sampling distributions; confidence intervals and tests of significance; multiple linear...
Introduction to numerical methods with applications to chemical engineering problems; analysis of numerical errors; roots of an equation; development...
Selection, sizing and detailed design of equipment in full-scale chemical engineering processes; estimation of materials and energy requirements, and...
Sequel to CHE 315 with emphasis on transport, mixing and separation processes; students learn to (i) design feasible objectives subject to the...
Characterization of particulate solids; rheological properties and behavior of powders; sampling techniques, experimental methods for particle size...
Introduction to biochemical engineering, basic microbiology, and basic biochemistry; enzyme kinetics; a brief introduction to genetic engineering and...
Physical properties of food materials; flow of particulate solids; steady and unsteady state heat and mass transfer operations (thermal and aseptic...