MCCCD Program Description

Introduction to the Chemical Engineering Process

Course: ECE230

First Term: 2018 Fall

Lec + Lab 3 Credit(s) 5 Period(s) 5 Load
Subject Type: Academic
Load Formula: T Lab Load

Description: Introduces fundamental skills and principles needed to analyze the industrial processes of importance to the chemical engineering profession.

MCCCD Official Course Competencies
1. Demonstrate skill with unit conversions, dimensional analysis, and interpretation of various representations of engineering data. (I) 2. Solve problems involving mass and volume flow rate. (I) 3. Describe industrial methods of measuring process variables including chemical composition, pressure, and temperature. (I) 4. Classify chemical process systems including simple flow, multi-unit, recycle or bypass, and reactors. (II) 5. Perform material balance calculations on single-phase systems, using appropriate equations of state. (II) 6. Perform material balance calculations on multi-phase and multicomponent systems, including solid/liquid, solid/vapor, liquid/vapor and multiple liquid processes. (II) 7. Perform energy balance calculations on simple closed systems involving latent and sensible heat, pressure-volume work, and mechanical work. (III) 8. Perform energy balance calculations on open and reaction systems, including combustion systems. (III) 9. Use appropriate software packages (including spreadsheets) to calculate material and energy balances for a variety of pumps and pipes, reactors, separators, heat exchangers, distillation columns, and other chemical industry process systems. (III)
MCCCD Official Course Competencies must be coordinated with the content outline so that each major point in the outline serves one or more competencies. MCCCD faculty retains authority in determining the pedagogical approach, methodology, content sequencing, and assessment metrics for student work. Please see individual course syllabi for additional information, including specific course requirements.

MCCCD Official Course Outline
I. Engineering Problem Analysis A. Introduction to Engineering Calculations 1. Units and dimensions 2. Unit conversions 3. Systems of units 4. Force, weight and mass 5. Calculation precision and estimation 6. Dimensional analysis 7. Representation and analysis of process data B. Processes and Process Variables 1. Mass and volume 2. Flow rate 3. Chemical composition 4. Pressure 5. Temperature II. Material Balances A. Material Balance Fundamentals 1. Process classification 2. Balances 3. Material balance calculations 4. Balances on multi-unit processes 5. Recycle and bypass 6. Chemical reaction stoichiometry 7. Balances on reactive processes 8. Combustions reactions B. Single-Phase Systems 1. Liquid and solid densities 2. Ideal gases 3. Equations of state for non-ideal gases 4. Compressibility factor equation of state C. Multi-Phase Systems 1. Single-component phase equilibrium 2. Gibbs phase rule 3. Gas-liquid systems with one condensable component 4. Multicomponent gas-liquid systems 5. Solutions of solids in liquids 6. Equilibrium between two liquid phases 7. Adsorption on solid surfaces III. Energy Balances A. Energy and Energy Balances 1. Forms of energy 2. First law of thermodynamics 3. Kinetic and potential energy 4. Energy balances on closed systems 5. Energy balances on open systems at steady state 6. Tabulated thermodynamic data 7. Energy balance procedures 8. Mechanical energy balances B. Balances on Nonreactive Processes 1. Elements of energy balance calculations 2. Pressure changes at constant temperature 3. Temperature changes 4. Phase change operations 5. Mixing and dissolving C. Balances on Reactive Processes 1. Heats of reaction 2. Measurement and calculation of heats of reaction: Hess`s law 3. Formation reactions and heats of formation 4. Heats of combustion 5. Energy balances on reactive processes 6. Fuels and combustion D. Computer-Aided Balance Calculations 1. Degree-of-freedom analysis 2. Sequential modular simulation 3. Equation-based simulation 4. Process simulation software packages E. Balances on Transient Processes 1. General balance equation revision 2. Material balances 3. Energy balances on single-phase nonreactive processes 4. Simultaneous transient balances

MCCCD Governing Board Approval Date: April 26, 2016

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