Fundamentals of chemical reaction kinetics and mechanisms; experimental methods of determining reaction rates; introduction to heterogeneous catalysis; application of chemical kinetics, along with mass-transfer theory,fluid mechanics,and thermodynamics, to the design and operation of chemical reactors. (Prerequisite: ChE 625 and 665)
ChE 625 - TRANSPORT PROCESSES
ChE 630 - MASS TRANSFER
ChE 642 - APPLIED SURFACE CHEMISTRY
ChE 647 - BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING
ChE 649 - POLYMER CHEMISTRY AND ENGINEERING
ChE 665 - TECHNIQUES FOR CHEMICAL ENGINEERING ANALYSIS AND DESIGN
Last updated: October 15, 2002
Integrated introduction to fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and mass
transfer. Development of the basic equations of change for transport of
momentum, energy, and mass in continuous media. Applications with exact
solutions,consistent approaches to limiting cases and approximate
solutions to formulate the relations to be solved in the more complicated
problems. (Prerequisite: Undergraduate transport processes)
Fundamental principles common to mass transfer phenomena, with
emphasis on mass transfer in diverse chemical engineering situations. Detailed
consideration of fluxes, diffusion with and without convection,
interphase mass transfer with chemical reaction, and
applications. (Prerequisite: ChE 625 and 665)
Factors underlying interfacial phenomena, with emphasis on
thermodynamics of surfaces, structural aspects, and electrical phenomena;
applications such as emulsification, foaming, detergency, sedimentation,
flow through porous media, fluidization, nucleation, wetting, adhesion,
flotation, electrocapillarity. (Prerequisite: Instructor permission)
Introduction to properties, production, and use of biological molecules
of importance to medicine and industry, such as proteins, enzymes, and
antibiotics. Topics may include fermentation and cell culture processes,
biological mass transfer, enzyme engineering, purification techniques, and
implications of recent advances in molecular biology, genomics, and
proteomics. (Prerequisite: Instructor permission)
Analyzes the mechanisms and kinetics of various polymerization reactions;
relations between the molecular structure and polymer properties, and the
influence of polymerization processing; fundamental concepts of polymer
solution and melt rheology; and application of these principles and heat
and mass transfer to polymer processing operations such as extrusion,
molding and fiber spinning. (Prerequisite: Instructor permission)
Methods for analysis of steady state and transient chemical
engineering problems arising in fluid mechanics, heat transfer, mass transfer,
kinetics, and reactor design. (Prerequisite: Undergraduate differential
equations, transport processes, and chemical reaction engineering.)
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