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Intro to Python and Jupyter - Said

Good starting points:

Prerequisites

MATH 152 – Linear Algebra - Said

  • Solving sets of linear equations
  • Unique, no solution, or multiple solutions

CHEM 154 – Chemistry - Victor

Module 1: Process Basics - Said

Industrial Examples: Drinking water purification, wastewater treatment, pulp and paper process

  • Flowrate
  • Material balances
  • Block Flow Diagrams
  • Mixer
  • Degrees of Freedom (DOF)
  • Process economics
  • Excel
  • Unit conversion

Module 2: Reactors - ito

Industrial Examples: Pharmaceuticals, heavy oil extraction,

  • Reactor
  • Batch, Semi-batch, continuous
  • Transient and steady state
  • Process Flow Diagrams
  • Converting moles to mass
  • Reactive Balances
  • Atomic Balances
  • Molecular species balances
  • Extent of reaction
  • % excess
  • Fractional conversion
  • Yield and selectivity

Module 3: Separation I - Victor

Industrial Examples: Drywall production, Temperature swing adsorption (Xebec - http://www.xebecinc.com/technology-what-is-psa.php), process involving crystallization

  • Splitter
  • Recycle
  • Purge
  • Process and Instrumentation Diagram (P&ID)
  • Centrifugation and cyclones
  • Dimensional Homogeneity
  • Density and specific gravity
  • Solid-Liquid Equilibrium
  • Temperature systems (K, C, F, R)
  • Trend/Curve fitting
  • Solid-Vapour Equilibrium
  • Liquid-Liquid Equilibrium

Module 4: Separation II (VLE) - Said

Industrial Examples: Burnaby oil refinery, some process involving humidity and condensation, L-L extraction process

  • Separators (Distillation columns, LL extractions {note:contradicts above}) x
  • Pressure measurement x
  • Difference between vapour and gas x
  • Gibb’s phase rule x
  • Vapour-Liquid Equilibrium (VLE) x
  • Phase diagrams x
  • Non-ideal gas laws
  • Standard cubic feet, and standard flow rates
  • Raoult’s law x
  • Henry’s Law x
  • Antoine equation and vapour pressure
  • Humidity
  • Dew point x
  • Bubble point x
  • Steam Tables x
  • Interpolation x

Module 5: Non-reactive Energy Balances

Industrial Examples: Beer production, spray drying process,

  • Energy Balance DOFs
  • First Law (E= Q+W) and when terms can be neglected
  • Closed, open, adiabatic, isothermal, isobaric, isochoric systems
  • Closed systems and internal energy
  • Open systems and enthalpy
  • Classification of Energy (Q, W, Ek, Ep, Eu)
  • Conservation of energy
  • Reference states and state properties
  • State functions
  • E change from pressure change
  • Cv + Cp, heat capacities
  • Psychrometric charts and spray drying
  • Heat of mixing

Module 6: Reactive Energy Balances

Industrial Examples: Enerkem plant, Chlor-Alkali process,

  • Heat of reaction/combustion
  • Hess’ law for heats of reaction
  • Heating values (HHV, LHV)
  • Heat of reaction method for solving energy balances
  • Heat of Vapourization/Melting

Following courses

Thermo (CHBE 244) Unit Operations I & II (CHBE 344, 345)

Module theme ideas

CHBE 241

  • Water purification (Module 1: Process Basics)
  • Pharma (Module 2: Reactors)
  • Cement (Lafarge) (Module 3: Seps I)
  • Burnaby oil refinery (Module 4: Seps II)
  • Beer/Spirit Production (Module 5: Non-reactive EB)
  • Waste to Energy (Module 6: Reactive EB)

CHBE 243

  • Chlor-Alkali process
  • Pulp and Paper

Others/to integrate Heavy oil extraction Surface operations in Natural Gas fields CO2 sequestration Claudio - innovation

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