INTRODUCTION FOR CHEMICAL ENGINEERING COURSE FOR NON CHEMICAL ENGINEER
This course is intended for people with a technical background, for whom an insight into chemical engineering would be useful in their job role. It aims to convey a conceptual understanding of the subject, revealing the chemical engineering approach to problem solving, and explaining the core concepts.
This is an interactive course, involving problem-based learning to convey key concepts. It is designed to accommodate a range of delegate backgrounds, from pure science to practising engineer.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
By the end of the course, participants should:
- know how chemical engineering differs from other branches of science and engineering
- appreciate how their current knowledge relates to chemical engineering
- be aware of the operating principles for common unit operations
- know the chemical engineer’s perspective on chemistry
- appreciate, and demonstrate a typical chemical engineering problem-solving approach
- understand the principles of mass and energy balances and be able to solve simple problems
- appreciate the principles of heat transfer, mass transfer, and fluid flow, and be able to solve simple problems
- understand basic conceptual process design and flow-sheeting
- appreciate design principles for heat exchangers and reactors
- appreciate the operating principle of a distillation column
- appreciate key aspects of process control
- appreciate the issues and approaches relating to process safety
- appreciate the concept of process equipment scale-up and apply this to simple problems.
METHODOLOGY
All the training sessions will be conducted through Tutorials, Discussion, Lecture
TARGET AUDIENCE
Anyone with a scientific, technical or non-chemical engineering background who wants to understand more about chemical engineering and its key concepts.
COURSE CONTENT
Day 1
– What is chemical engineering
– The concept of unit operations
– Essential chemistry
– Mass and energy balances
– Heat transfer
– Mass transfer
– Momentum transfer (fluid mechanics)
– Process design, concepts and diagrams
– Distillation
– Process control
– Process safety
– Process scale-up
