CHEMICAL ENGINEERING 4903-1, PROJECTS LABORATORY-I
Fall Semester, 2008
PROFESSORS:
STAFF:
PROFESSOR TERRY RING
2290 MEB, 585-5705
Email: ring@eng.utah.edu
Web: www.che.utah.edu/~ring
BOB COX
3520B MEB, 581-7846
Email: rec6@utah.edu
PROFESSOR BRUCE OBLAD
bruce.oblad@gmail.com
DANA OVERAKER
2532 MEB, 581-3422
Email: overacke@eng.utah.edu
CLEAR Specialists:
Katheryn COWLES
Autumn GARRISON, Teams & Oral Communication
1706 WEB, 618-2908
1706 WEB, 556-8893
kathryn.cowles@gmail.com
autumngarrison@gmail.com
Office Hours:
Office Hours:
T,W:2-3PM, T 11:45-12:45PM
T, Th: 10-12PM
and by appointment
and by appointment
PREREQUISITES:
CH EN 3553, 3603 5503. Major standing; CoReq: CH EN 4203.
SCHEDULE:
M, W 1:00-5:00 p.m., ROOMS 102 WEB & 3520 MEB
A preliminary schedule of the experiments assigned to each group is given on the next page. Each group must arrange a
time for the quiz with the appropriate professor on the indicated date or some other mutually agreed upon date. Class will
usually meet every Monday and Wednesday at 1:00 p.m. in room 122 WEB for lecture, general announcements and
informational items unless notified otherwise. Oral reports will be given from 1:00 to 2:00, in room 122 WEB starting
towards the end of the semester. The topic for your oral report must be related to a social issue and must be approved by
the professor. Oral and Written report guidelines are provided in the handouts available on WEBCT or Prof. Geoff Silcox’s
website (see address below) and from the text listed below. In addition, you will receive three lectures throughout the
semester to assist you in your report writing and presentation efforts. As part of your assignments, you are required to
arrange a meeting with Autumn Garrision, the oral and teamwork specialist for Chemical Engineering, outside class time to
help prepare for your oral presentations. Your oral presentations will also be videotaped to be used at a later date for
additional assignments. Kathryn Cowles, the technical writing specialist, will be available to help you with your written
reports. Experiments on unassigned days are discouraged so try to do your experiments during scheduled class time.
REPORTS: The following reports must be submitted in order to pass the course and will serve as the basis for the course
grade. Reports, both partial and final, handed in after the deadlines are subject to penalties. For the first formal report, four
copies are requested. The instructor will receive the original report and an electronic copy (through email), a hard copy of
the full report will be given to Kathryn Cowles and an electronic copy will be provided for the CLEAR staff
(www.coe.utah.edu/clear - click submit homework). If you file is too large for University email, >50MB, then contact the
instructor and CLEAR to see how they can receive your electronic report. All hard copies must be submitted to the
department secretary on the due date. Only two copies of the second formal report will be requested: the original report and
an electronic copy for the instructor.
Report
Points
2 - Formal Reports and 1 – Memo Report
300
1 - Oral Report
100
GRADING: One of your assignments will be to draw a floor plan of all three floors of the chemical engineering
laboratory with associate experimental equipment identified. A copy of that assignment is attached. Your final grade will
be determined as follows: floor plan and HW-1 – 5%, oral and written reports – 95%.
TEXT, MATERIALS, FEES: The recommended texts for the course are is The ACS Style Guide. Effective
Communication of Scientific Information; Coghill, A.M., Garson, L.R., Eds.; Oxford University Press: New York, NY,
2006.ISBN 0-8412-3999-1. (About $45 on Amazon.Com).and Perry’s Chemical Engineers Handbook, 7th ed. You must
keep an approved laboratory notebook (available in the bookstore). Hard hats and safety goggles will be supplied by the
department. A 10 inch screwdriver, a 10 inch crescent wrench and work gloves and clothes may be useful. There is a
special laboratory fee of $100. Various handouts for the course, which you should read carefully, are available on the web,
www.che.utah.edu/~geoff/writing/index.html .
The University of Utah seeks to provide equal access to its programs, services and activities for people with disabilities. If
you will need accommodations in the class, reasonable prior notice needs to be given to the Center for Disability Services,
162 Olpin Union Building, 581-5020 (V/TDD). CDS will work with you and the instructor to make arrangements for
accommodations.
CHEN 4903 Projects Laboratory I, Section 1
Catalog Description: Experiments and theoretical solution of realistic problems in heat transfer, fluid
flow, mass transfer, chemical-reaction kinetics, and process control by use of semi-industrial-scale and
bench-scale equipment.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
1. Apply concepts from heat transfer, fluid mechanics, mass transfer, process control and
thermodynamics to model and analyze the performance of unit operations equipment.
2. Apply concepts from mathematics to model and analyze the performance of unit operations
equipment.
3. Compute description statistics (e.g. sample mean, sample standard deviation) and apply methods of
statistical inference (e.g. hypothesis test, confidence intervals) to analyze experimental data sets.
4. Develop specific experimental objectives to meet overall experimental goals.
5. Design and conduct experiments to collect data relevant to experimental objectives.
6. Analyze experimental data to obtain parameters and correlations describing unit operations
equipment performance.
7. Evaluate the quality of experimental results by comparison with accepted correlations and theories
and develop valid conclusions about deviations from expected equipment performance.
8. Demonstrate effective team skills including goal-setting, consensus-building, listening, role-setting,
and time management.
9. Demonstrate effective leadership skills including facilitating team discussions and decisions,
calling team meetings, and insuring team achieves all required tasks on schedule.
10. Produce professional-quality written reports that present, analyze, and interpret experimental
results logically and which are well organized and easy to read.
11. Produce a professional-quality oral presentation that presents, analyzes, and interprets experimental
results logically and which are well organized and delivered.
12. Apply concepts of professional ethics to design and conducting experiments and analyzing and
interpreting experimental data.
13. Demonstrate knowledge of laboratory and process equipment and instrumentation and their
capabilities and limitations.
14. Demonstrate the ability to design an experiment to meet desired needs within realistic constraints
such as environmental, economic, health and safety
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING 4903-1
FALL SEMESTER – 2008 SCHEDULE OF LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS
(revised 8/13/08)
Project Period
I
Formal Report
II
Formal Report
III
Formal Report
Receive Lab
Assignment
9/8
10/8
11/12
Lab Prelim
Conference
Deadline
9/10
10/20
11/17
Report Due (1:00
PM)
10/10
11/14
12/12
Technical Rewrite
Due (1:00 PM) if
necessary
One week after receiving
instructor graded report
One week after receiving
instructor graded report
None due
Group A
Shell & Tube Heat
Exchanger
Extruder
Ultrafiltration
Group B
Vacuum Dryer
Bubble-cap Distillation
Heat Conduction
Group C
Stirred Tank Reactor
Ultrafiltration
Shell & Tube Heat Exchanger
Group D
Liquid Flow Bench
Glass Lined Reactor
Level Control
Group E
Bubble-cap Distillation
Shell & Tube Heat Exchanger
Heat Control
Group F
Fluidized Bed
Heat Conduction
Bubble-cap Distillation
Group G
Spray Dryer
Stirred Tank Reactor
Extruder
Group H
Glass Lined Reactor
Spray Dryer
Liquid Flow Bench
Partial Report Due
(1:00 PM)
Introduction and
Theory only
Chemical Engineering 4903
Proposed Lecture and Assignment Schedule
Fall Semester 2008
(revised 8/13/08)
Day
Date
Lecture / Laboratory Topics
Due Dates
M
8/25
Organizational Meeting, Form Groups, Schedules & Procedures,
Lecture on Physical Measurements,
Data Analysis
HW-1
W
8/27
Expt. Data Analysis
M
9/1
Holiday
W
9/3
Teamwork Lecture (AG)
M
9/8
Lab Safety Lecture, Short Assignment-Mapping, Lab I Assignment
Given Out
W
9/10
Report Writing (Literature Review, Experimental, Results &
Conclusions)
Lab I Prelim.
Conference
M
9/15
Report Writing continued (Summary/Conclusions)
Map Due
W
9/17
Writing Style
M
9/22
Technical Letter/Memo Report Writing Lecture
W
9/24
M
9/29
Persuasive Oral Presentation Guidelines - I
W
10/1
Persuasive Oral Presentation Guidelines - II
M
10/6
Experimental Design Lecture
W
10/8
Experimental Design Lecture 2, Lab II Assignment Given Out
F 10/10
Lab Report I Due in Dept Office, 1 pm
M/W
10/13-10/17
Fall Break
M
10/20
Oral Presentation Lecture (AG)
W
10/22
Team Work Follow-up(AG),
M
10/27
Review of Lab Report I
W
10/29
Oral Reports – Hy(Artificial Food Ingredients), Vance(31),
Wilkey(4)
HW-1 Due
Lab Report I
Due
Lab II Prelim.
Conference
M
11/3
Oral Reports – Benson(17), Clark(19), Espinoza(11)
W
11/5
Oral Reports – Adamson(22), Brinton(2)
M
11/10
Oral Reports – Anguiano(3)
W
11/12
Lab III Assignment Given Out,
F 11/14
Lab Report II Due in Dept Office, 1 pm
Lab Report II Due
Lab III Prelim.
Conference
M
11/17
Oral Reports – Frederick(EtOH vs Gas), Smith(16)
W
11/19
Oral Reports – Hales(12), Peckham(5), Riches(30)
M
11/24
Oral Reports – Ghonaym(Nicotin Pills vs Patch), Olson(18)
W
11/26
Oral Reports – Montalvo(24), Stoddard(27)
M
12/1
Oral Reports – Brewster(36), Lund(10), Wagner(26)
W
12/3
Oral Reports – Call(25), Rogers(20)
M
12/8
Oral Reports – Schneider(8)
W
12/10
Oral Reports – Thompson(28)
F 12/12
M-F
12/15-12/19
Lab Report III Due in Dept Office, 1 pm
Lab Report III
Due
Final Exam Week
*Oral Presentations (15min. + 5 min. discussion) on the subject of a formal report or 5503 report. All students are required
to attend.
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING 4903-1
Fall Semester 2006
Short Assignment –Mapping (Due by 5 PM, October 25, 2006)
Submit your work to Chemical Engineering Office, 3290 MEB
Draw a floor plan of each floor (1000, 2000, and 3000 levels), in the Chemical and Fuels Engineering Laboratory. Include
principal pieces of process equipment and the location of all safety equipment. Confine your plans (sketches) to areas used
in the senior project laboratory course; do not consider graduate research offices or research laboratories. Use a separate
sheet for each floor.
Additional Notes:
(1) Your sketches should be included in your laboratory notebook as well as submitted to us.
(2) Though not necessarily made to scale, your sketches and captions should be prepared with care and neatness.
(3) As with conventional plans and maps, north should be labeled at the top of each sheet.
(4) Safety equipment which must be identified includes:
(a) Fire extinguishers
(b) Fire alarms
(c) Fire blankets
(d) Safety showers*
(e) Eye wash fountains
(f) First-Aid kits
*Do not test-pull a safety shower chain; the safety showers will not shut off until an embarrassing amount of water has
been discharged. Operate the safety showers only in the case of a real emergency.
(5) The principal pieces of laboratory process equipment include the following:
(a) Long-tube vertical evaporator
(b) Bubble-plate distillation column
(c) Extruder
(d) Gas absorber columns
(e) Liquid-liquid extraction columns
(f) High pressure glass lined reactor
(g) Vacuum tray drier
(h) Spray drier
(i) Fluidized bed apparatus
(j) Pressure/Flow rate Cart
(k) Double-pipe heat exchanger
(l) Shell-and-tube heat exchanger
(m) Gas flow circuit
(n) Liquid flow circuit
(o) Gas Chromatograph
(p) CSTR/Tubular reactor
(q) pH Control System
(r) Multivariable control system
(s) Catalytic Reactor
(t) Fermentor/Bioreactor
(u) Air Dehumidifier
(v) Heat Control Experiment
(w) Liquid Level Flow Control (Valtec)
(x) Other major equipment not listed above.
(6) On the appropriate floor plan, show the location of the laboratory’s barometer.
Submit your assignment in the form of a memorandum to the instructors. Your written responses to this assignment will be
graded, and the grade will be incorporated into your overall class grade.