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COURSE INFORMATION FOR CURRENT SEMESTER/TERM

References/Teaching Materials/
Week Lecture/Tutorial/Assignment Topic
Equipment
Introduction to Engineering Calculations – definitions, units and
1 Felder and Rousseau Ch 2,
dimensions, systems of units
Notes
2 Systems of units, conversion factors, g c, force and weight, dimensional Felder and Rousseau Ch 2,
homogeneity & dimensionless quantities Notes

Introduction to Chemical Processes – the chemical industry, process Luywen and Wenzel Ch 2, Notes
characteristics

3 Process equipment – Reactors and Product Purification Units Luywen and Wenzel Ch 2, Notes

Felder and Rousseau Ch 3,
Process Variables – mass & volume, flowrate, temperature Notes
4 Process Variables – mass and mole fractions Felder and Rousseau Ch 3,
Notes

Mass Transfer and Applications – Distillation, Leaching and Extraction Mc Cabe et al, Section 4, Notes

5 Mass Transfer and Applications – Absorption, Adsorption, Drying Mc Cabe et al, Section 3, Notes

Heat Transfer and Applications – Heat Flow in Fluids, Solids and by Mc Cabe et al, Section 3, Notes

6 Fundamentals of Material Balances – Process classification, Balances Felder and Rousseau Ch 4,
on single units, non-reactive processes Notes

7 Fundamentals of Material Balances – Balances on Multiple Unit Felder and Rousseau Ch 4,
Processes, Recycle and Bypass Notes

Mid-semester Test
8

9 Fundamentals of Material Balances- Balances on Reactive Systems, Felder and Rousseau Ch 4,
combustion processes Notes

10 Combustion processes Felder and Rousseau Ch 4, Ch
5, Notes
Single phase Systems – Liquid and solid densities, ideal gases

11 Single phase systems – Equations for non-ideal gases Felder and Rousseau Ch 5 and
6, Notes
Multiphase Systems – Single component and gas-liquid systems

12 Multiphase Systems – Multicomponent Gas-Liquid Systems, Felder and Rousseau Ch 6
Equilibrium between 2 liquid phases

Energy and energy balances - Forms of energy, balances on closed Felder and Rousseau Ch 7
13
systems
14 Energy balances on open systems at Steady state Felder and Rousseau Ch 7

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