| 1301 |
Engineering as a Career |
3(3-0) |
| Description |
Principles of student success in
college. Chemical engineering as an academic and
professional career. Conversion of problem data
to a unified unit system for problem solving. |
| 2371 |
Conservation Principles |
3(3-0) |
| Description |
Applications of the conservation
laws of mass and energy to
the solution of Chemical Engineering problems. |
| Prerequisites |
CHEM 1312, and CHEN 1301 or PHYS
2425/2125 |
| 3310 |
Heat Transfer Phenomena |
3(3-0) |
| Description |
Fundamentals of energy transport
and system applications involving
this operation including computer applications to heat
exchanger design. |
| Prerequisites |
CHEN3392, CHEM 2421 or CHEM
3323/3123, and CHEN 3347 or MEEN 3347. |
| 3315 |
Chemical
Process Design I |
3(3-0) |
| Description |
Basic principles and techniques of
economic analysis and cost engineering with
applications to problems in chemical process and
equipment design. |
| Prerequisites |
CHEN 2371 and credit for or
registration in CHEN
3310 |
| 3321 |
Process Simulation |
3(3-0) |
| Description |
Basic numerical methods used in
chemical process simulation. An introduction
to the use of commercial process
simulators, with hands-on
applications. |
| Prerequisites |
MATH
3320, and credit or registration in CHEN 3371 |
| 3347 |
Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics, I |
3(3-0) |
| Description |
Theory and application of first
and second laws of thermodynamics to mechanical,
chemical, magnetic, and electrical interactions
for both reversible and irreversible
processes. |
| Prerequisites |
MATH 2314 and PHYS
2326/2126 |
| 3371 |
Chemical and Natural Gas
Engineering Thermodynamics, II |
3(3-0) |
| Description |
Procedures for deciding when and
to what extent chemical reactions and phase
changes may be expected to occur according to
the basic principles of physical chemistry and
the laws of thermodynamics. Application of
computers to advanced thermodynamic
problems. |
| Prerequisites |
CHEM 3331, CHEM 3325/3125, and CHEN
3347 |
| 3392 |
Fluid Transport Phenomena |
3(3-0) |
| Description |
Fundamentals of momentum, including fluid statics, flow or compressible and
incompressible fluids, Pumps, turbines, and
compressors, with computer applications. |
| Prerequisites |
MATH 3320, and credit or registration in MEEN 2355 or
MEEN 2302. |
| 4278 |
Unit Operations |
2(0-6) |
| Description |
Selected laboratory experiments on
fluid flow and heat transfer. |
| Prerequisites |
CHEN 3310. Laboratory fee,
$5. |
| 4279 |
Unit Operations Laboratory
|
2(0-6) |
| Description |
Selected laboratory experiments on
heat and mass transfer. |
| Prerequisites |
CHEN 4389. Laboratory fee,
$5. |
| 4311 |
Biochemical Engineering |
3(3-0) |
| Description |
Principles involved in the
processing of biological materials using
biological agents such as cells, enzymes, or
antibodies. |
| Prerequisites |
CHEM 2421 or CHEM 3323/3123 and CHEM
3331. |
| 4316 |
Chemical Process Design, II |
3(3-0) |
| Description |
The application of chemical principles to a sequence
of design problems utilizing computer software,
such as SIMSCI. |
| Prerequisites |
CHEN 3315, CHEN 3371, and
CHEN 3310. |
| 4317 |
Chemical Process Design, III |
3(3-0) |
| Description |
The application of chemical principles, including
economic criteria to a comprehensive design
problem. Computer software is utilized as a
design aid. |
| Prerequisites |
CHEN 4316, CHEN 4373, CHEN 4389
and credit for or registration in CHEN
4392. |
| 4335 |
Special Problems |
V:1-3 |
| Description |
Individual solution of selected
problems in chemical engineering
conducted under direct supervision of a faculty
member. May be repeated for up to six
hours. |
| Prerequisites |
senior
standing. |
| 4373 |
Kinetics and Reactor
Design |
3(3-0) |
| Description |
Chemical reaction rates and design
of chemical reactors. Applications of computers
to chemical kinetics and the design of chemical
reactors. |
| Prerequisites |
CHEN 3371, CHEN 3310, and
CHEN 3332 |
| 4383 |
Natural Gas Processes |
3(3-0) |
| Description |
The design, operation, and
economics of systems for the utilization of
hydrocarbon gases and liquids, the concentration
of their components by absorption and
fractionation procedures. Use of computer aided
design and economic evaluation of facility
designs. |
| Prerequisites |
CHEN 4389.
|
| 4386 |
Air Pollution Control |
3(3-0) |
| Description |
A fundamental approach to air
pollution testing, control, and design of
control systems. Introduction to dispersion
modeling via computer. |
| Prerequisites |
CHEN 3392 and senior standing. |
| 4388 |
Process Heat Transfer |
3(3-0) |
| Description |
Design and analysis of
heat-transfer equipment used in the chemical and
petroleum industries. Heat exchangers,
condensers, evaporators, reboilers. Extended
surface heat transfer equipment. Computer
applications to heat exchanger design. |
| Prerequisites |
CHEN 3310. |
| 4389 |
Mass Transfer Operations
|
3(3-0) |
| Description |
Fundamentals of mass transport,
including gas absorption, extraction, membrane
separation,
binary and multicomponent distillation,
with computer design applications. |
| Prerequisites |
CHEN 3331 and credit or
registration in CHEN 3310. |
| 4392 |
Process Dynamics and
Control |
3(2-3) |
| Description |
Basic operating theory of control
instruments and their application to industrial
chemical process. Applications of computers to
process control. |
| Prerequisites |
CHEN 4373 and CHEN 4389.
Laboratory fee,
$5. |
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