Single phase fluid flow is considered for both gas and liquids. The mechanical energy balance and fluid force balance equations are developed with applications. Newtonian and non-Newtonian concepts are introduced including rheological measurement. The concepts of laminar and turbulent flow are developed and applied to flow in pipes and networks, and fluid metering. Compressible fluid flow is also introduced.
Current and future technological changes and their impacts on society are explored from a chemical engineering point of view. Impacts of petroleum production, mineral industries, and chemical industries. Topics involving health and safety issues in the chemical industries are discussed.
Numerical methods. Curve-fitting and approximation of functions. Fourier series and integral. Laplace transformation. Application of basic statistics to chemical engineering problems including fault tree analysis and catalyst performance analysis.
Mass transfer operations involving contact by stages, including single-stage, binary multiple-stage contacting, and multicomponent multiple-stage contacting. Gas absorption, distillation, and liquid extraction are included.
Pumping of fluids, gas-liquid pipe flow, flow through consolidated and unconsolidated porous media, fluidization and two-phase separation processes. Applications include topics of interest in the petroleum and mineral processing industries.
Ordinary and partial differential equations as they relate to chemical engineering processes. Laplace transforms for ordinary differential equations. Analytic and numerical solutions to partial differential equations. An emphasis will be placed on the development of mathematical models for chemical engineering systems.
Topics include the treatment of vapour-liquid equilibria at high pressures, expansion and compression of fluids, steam power-plant cycles, liquefaction of gases and refrigeration.
The concepts of industrial chemical process design, industrial economics, process optimization, process simulation and plant safety. Encourages students to use their fundamental knowledge in science and mathematics to design practical chemical engineering facilities. Special emphasis will be placed on safety, hazards, sustainability and loss prevention issues in chemical plants.