You are here: Home / Future students / Course search

Process Design

CHNG3801

This unit of study consists of three strands: reaction engineering; vapour-liquid equilibrium and distillation; heat transfer. The central aim is to show how these unit operations interact in the design and operation of process equipment. The reaction engineering strand covers the following: development of appropriate kinetic rate laws; use of rate laws in designing continuous stirred tank, plug-flow and packed-bed reactors. The second strand focuses on the following: numerical methods for predicting vapour-liquid equilibrium; binary and multi-component distillation; deviations from ideal behaviour. The heat transfer strand covers the following issues: forced and natural convective heat transfer; shell and tube heat exchangers; heat transfer with phase change; radiative heat transfer. The various strands make extensive use of computer software: Excel and Matlab for data manipulation and equation solving; commercial flowsheeting software (Hysys) for solving engineering design problems. This unit of study runs concurrently with another enabling technology unit of study CHNG3802. These two units together provide students with the tools and know-how to tackle real-life engineering problems encountered in the concurrent project-based unit of study, CHNG3803. This integrated course structure is designed to help students become familiar with the multi-disciplinary nature of chemical engineering today.

Unit of study details

Unit of study level: Senior

Credit points: 6

Commencing semesters: 1

Further unit of study information

Unit of study handbook: CHNG3801

Costs and scholarships information: Costs and Scholarships

Final dates to withdraw from units of study: Census Dates

Available for study abroad and exchange: Yes

Our courses that offer this unit of study