Course Information
Course title
Semester
Department
Instructor
Process Design
100-1
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Jeffrey Daniel Ward
Administrative Curriculum
ChemE4008
Number
Teaching Curriculum
Number
504 44100
Class
06
Credits
3
Full/Half Yr.
Required/Elective
Time
Remarks
Half
Required
Monday 56 Friday 34
The upper limit of the number of students:18
description of the course conducted in English
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Table of Core Capabilities
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Table of Core Capabilities and Curriculum Planning
Course Syllabus
Course Description
This course is an integration of undergraduate chemical engineering core
courses for process design. This course is divided into two parts: (1) the
combined lectures for basic design principles, and (2) team design practice
under the guidance of 5 to 7 professors.
Course Objective
Textbook Lecture Notes for Chemical Engineering Process Design. Wei-Ming
Course Requirement
Lu, Yan-Ping Chen and Cheng-Ching Yu, 2006. (in Chinese)
Course Outline Instruction Hours remark
Topics Contents lecture demonstration experiment others1
Introduction 1. The nature of chemical industry
2. The importance of chemical engineering process design
3. The state-of-art of chemical process design 2
Process synthesis and flowsheets
1. Chemical process synthesis
2. Heuristic rules and sequencing of separation processes
3. Chemical engineering process flowsheets
4. Hierarchy of process flowsheet 4
Computeraided process design
1. The principles of computer-aided process design
2. Process simulation using Aspen Plus software
3. Data base and data regression 2
Process integration and green chemical processes
1. The concept of pinch technology
2. Heat exchanger network design
3. Utility system and heat integration
4. Water minimization
5. Residual curves and distillation system design 4
Equipment selection and design
1. The basic principles of equipment selection
2. Heuristic rules for equipment design and selection
3. Selection and design of heat transfer equipments
4. Selection and design of separation equipments 4
Process control
1. Basic principles of control system
2. Advanced control systems
3. Design rules of control systems 4
Economic evaluation of chemical engineering processes 1. Principles of
economic evaluation
2. Steps of economic evaluation
3. Estimations for capital and operation costs
4. Estimation of total product cost and profitability 4
Process optimization 1. Definitions of optimization problems
2. Methods for process optimization
3. Dominant design variables
4. Design example of a recycle plant
5. Flowsheet optimization 4
Conclusion
1. Future trend of process system engineering
2. Ethics and professionalism
3. Report writing 2
Evaluation and Assessment: Combined lectures (home assignments and final
exam.) 50% ; Team design practice 50%.
Course Website or Other remarks:
http:// www.che.ntu.edu.tw/lab/therm/index.htm
Office Hours
References
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