FELLESLB GUIDELINES, FALL 2003
Organization of the Course
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Course coordinator:
Prof. De Chen, KV-407, 73593149, chen@chembio.ntnu.no
Course administrative coordinator:
Øye Asbjørn, K4-118, 73594018, asbjorn.oye@chemeng.ntnu.no,
Table 1. List of lab projects, and supervisors
N Lab exercise
Person in charge
o1 Kinetic study in a bactch reactor(1)
Edd Blekkan
2 Kinetic study in a CSTR
De Chen
3 Kinetic study by UV-VIS spectroscopy
Egil Haanæs
4 Kinetic study in a batch reactor(2)
Edd Blekkan
5 Rashing ring distillation column
Sigurd Skogestad
6 Oldershow perforated plate distillationSigurd Skogestad
7 column
Distillation in hole plate column
Tore Haug-Warberg
8 Reverse osmosis / Ultra filtration
Norvald Nesse
9 Efflux time for a tank
Terje Hertzberg
10 Heat exchanger
Hallvard Svendsen
11 Pressure drop in tube
Hugo Jakobsen
Jens-Petter
12 Crystallization
Andreassen
13 Separation of impurities in pulp
Størker
Moe
14 Membrane filtration
May-Britt Hägg
Laboratories:
No
Lab exercises
1.
Kinetic study in a batch reactor (1)
2 Kinetic study in a CSTR
3 Kinetic study by UV-VIS spectroscopy
4 Kinetic study in a batch reactor (2)
5 Rashing ring distillation column
6 Oldershow perforated plate distillation column
7 Distillation in hole plate column
8 Reverse Osmosis/ultrafiltration
9 Efflux time for a tank
10 Heat exchanger
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Supervisor
Vidar Frøseth
Florian Huber
Thomas Løften
Ingrid Aarthun
Vidar Alstad
Jens Strandberg
Federico Zenith
Willy Thelin
Olaf Trygve Berglihn
Erik Falk da Silva
Håvard Linborg
Tom Drakstad
Øyvind Eriksen
Arne Lindbraathen
Room
KV. 3etg
KV 3etg.
KV 3etg.
KV3etg.
KIV 301
KIV 301
KIV 301
KV 1etg.
KIV 301
KIV 301
11 Pressure drop in tube
12 Crystallization
13 Separation of impurities in pulp
14 Membrane filtration
Introduction
KIV 301
KIV 215
PIF
KV 2etg.
The goal of the Felleslab Is to introduce you to some of the practical skills you need to be
able to apply the scientific and engineering concepts you have acquired in your
coursework, including TKP4110 Chemical Reaction Engineering, TKP4105 Separation
technology, TKP4160 Transport phenomena, and TKP2120 Process Engineering. By the
time you finish the course you should be able to achieve the following course outcomes:
1.
2.
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Organize and carry out experimental design and actual hands-on experiments.
Apply previous course material to analyze and interpret experimental data.
Write organized and cohesive technical memos and reports.
Organize and prepare standard operating procedures (SOPs).
Work effectively in a team environment.
Projects
The projects which will be used in Fall 2003 are listed in Table 1.
All students will have the opportunity to work on three of these projects during the term,
if you participate TKP4110 and TKP4115. If students take only one course either
TKP4110 or TKP4115, you will woke on one of these projects during the term. However,
you are encouraged to learn more about the other projects by reading the course pack and
consulting students working on those projects. You need to engage in “active learning”
— that is, you need to take charge of your own learning through observation, questioning,
and evaluating answers — in order to get the most out of the Felleslab experience.
Performance Evaluation
Since this is a laboratory course, planing, experimental performance and reporting are
required. Points for the various activities will be assigned approximately as listed in the
evaluation table. Since this is primarily a laboratory course, less tangible quantities, —
such as the quality of laboratory work, cooperation with others in and outside of the lab
(based on peer evaluation), apparent interest in the course content and objectives, safety
considerations etc., — will be judged by the laboratory instructors and will affect your
final grade accordingly.
The lab instructor will evaluate your laboratory reports for technical content and
accuracy, as well as overall quality and grammatical mistakes. Each report will be
assigned a grade and, in general, each member of the team will receive the same grade.
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Grade Distribution
Course
Theoretic exam. %
Lab,%
TKP4110
75
25
TKP4115
75
25
The grade of the felleslab will be accounted by: 50% large Version +2*25% short
version
Organization of the Laboratory Sessions
1. Whenever possible, you will be working in teams of two or three.
2. You have opportunity to select the package. If you participate both TKP4110 and
4105, you can select one of the package 1-9. If you participate only TKP4105, please
select one of the package 10 and 11. If you participate only TKP4110, please select
one of the package 12 and 13. You can register your group on course web page (click
icon registration). Before you select the package, we recommend you to read through
all the documents for different projects.
3. As you begin each project, you will prepare an experimental design (work plan). This
work plan should include clear objectives for your project based on the assignment
memo you receive, reference materials in the course pack, and additional literature
review. Your work plan must be well thought out, with specific process parameters to
be measured and a specific description of your approach to performing the necessary
data collection and analysis (include key equations). It is essential that students
know the fundamentals and what needs to be done before going into the
laboratory rather than figuring what to do in the lab or afterwards.
-Your work plan is critical — it will determine the success of your experimentation;
more information about the work plan are provided in the work plan guidelines.
4. After you have signed group, you should make an appointment for a meeting with the
instructors. The work plan should be well discussed. It is essential that students
should get permission before starting experimental session.
Conducting the Projects
1. Before starting any experimental work, you must have read through the safety
guidelines provided. You must wear safety eye glasses, goggles or reading glasses
with tempered lenses and side shields. You will not be allowed to work in the lab
without appropriate eye protection.
2. You must study the instructions for each project carefully before the first laboratory
session on that project. Each person in the team must be individually familiar with
the theory, procedures, and data analysis and interpretation, as described in the
instructions or as covered in relevant previous courses. The laboratory instructor
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reserves the right to stop work on the project if the students do not show due diligence
in understanding the assignment.
3. Set up your laboratory notebook before you come to the lab. Organize space for a
statement of the processes and relationships that you will test. Make preliminary
tables showing conditions and variables for your experiments. The specific layout
will depend on the project, but in any case leave room for your comments and
additions as you proceed with your work.
4. Give thought to ways of improving the accuracy or precision of the results, or the ease
of doing the work. You should consider sources of error, anomalous results,
experimental difficulties, etc, during the experiments and record them in your lab
notebook.
5. You must submit a concise description of your experimental design (work plan)
before the laboratory session. The work plan report will be evaluated by the
instructor and discussed with the team during the second laboratory session. This
plan should include your understanding of the goal(s) of the project, a statement of
your objectives, an itemization of what you plan to do in the remaining lab sessions,
and what kind of data analysis you will do.
6. When possible, data should be processed and interpreted during the course of the
experimental work, thus helping to identify and correct experimental or data analysis
problems.
7. You must process and interpret all data obtained in the laboratory sessions as soon as
possible. In the third lab session, you will repeat or extend your experiments
depending on the results and conclusions you drew from previous sessions. You may
want to disregard previous data if you feel there is a legitimate reason for doing so.
Your reasoning should be explained accordingly.
The Laboratory Notebook
Each team in the Felleslab will use one Laboratory Notebook. You will need to make
copies of the original pages for inclusion in the appendices of your written reports. The
instructors reserve the right to check the original pages. Specific details with regards to
preparation of the laboratory notebook are provided in the “Notebook Guidelines”.
Laboratory Reports
Each team who has both version 1 and version 2 projects should prepare both short and
full final reports, respectively. Teams having version 2 project prepare only the full final
report. These processes will provide the students opportunities to practice skills to
prepare different types of the reports. The full final report, which is not to exceed 15
single-spaced pages including figures and tables (exclusive of appendices) will address
all aspects of the project, including Objectives, Background and theory, Experimental
methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusions. Specific details with regards to
preparation of the full report are provided in the “Full Report Guidelines”. It is
appreciated that all the appendices are less than 10 pages.
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The short report, which is like progress report, is very often used in industry to briefly
report the results for a specific objective. The report should therefore address the
objectives, and the progress forward objectives. Detailed discussion is not the main
objective of such report. The text is 2-3 single spaced pages including figures and tables
and appendices are exclusive, which should be also less than 5 pages. The details can be
found in the “The Short Report Guidelines”.
The students in each team will also cooperate on preparing reports and share the report.
Each team will submit two copies of the report. One of them will be delivered back to the
students with comments from the instructors. The reports are due on the data indicated in
the schedule. The comments to the short report should be obtained before the preparation
of the full report.
Safety Responsibilities.
Laboratory SAFETY is of the highest priority. Each student has the responsibility to:
-Carefully read through HMS book. Sign the first page and submit it to the institute
office.
-be aware the safety guidelines of felleslab.
-be aware of the location of exits and fire extinguishers.
- be aware of the activity of those working around you; this is particularly important if
potentially hazardous materials or equipment are being transported in the laboratory.
- be familiar with the specific safety requirements of your apparatus, especially with
regards to any necessary protective clothing (safety glasses, hardhats, gloves, etc.).
- not operate equipment outside of the procedures and limitations established by the
instructor responsible for that equipment. Ask for assistance if you are not sure how
changing a particular control or parameter (i.e., opening or closing valves, knobs, etc.)
will impact the experiment.
- practice good housekeeping. Shut down the apparatus safely and leave the laboratory
area clean and free of debris.
Questions for Consideration
Each of the instructions for the projects contains a section called Questions for
Consideration. These are intended to direct attention to questions whose answers may be
of great importance in the performance of an experimental project and the analysis and
interpretation of the data gathered.
These questions should be resolved as early in each project as possible, certainly by the
second laboratory session. Their "answers" should be integrated as appropriate into the
final reports. The questions are not to be simply answered in writing in the report. It
should be apparent, however, in discussions with the instructor, and in the final report,
that the questions for consideration have been considered and resolved.
Suggested Additional Reading Materials
1.
Introduction to Engineering Experimentation. A.J. Wheeler, A.R. Ganji, Pentice
Hall Inc., New Jersey, 1996.
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2.
Designing Technical Reports. 2nd edition. J. C. Mathes and D.W. Stevenson.
Allyn and Bacon, Boston, 1991.
3.
Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Scientists and Engineers.
W.A. Rosenkrantz. McGraw-Hill, 1997.
Updated July 2003
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