Chemical Engineering: What Scientists and other Engineers need to know 2018

Topics

• Flow of fluids
  • Fluid properties
  • Basics of fluid behaviour
  • Reynolds number
  • Flow measurement
  • Types of pump and pump selection
  • Pressure drop in pipes
  • Types of agitators
  • Applications of mixing
  • Solid-liquid and gas-liquid mixing
  • Mixing regimes and their effects on process
• Introduction to chemical engineering
  • Dimensionless groups
  • What do some chemical engineers do?
  • Conservation of mass and material balances
  • Process representations and their uses
  • Conservation of energy and energy balances
• Mass transfer and separation processes
  • Phase equilibria
  • Introduction to mass transfer
  • Introduction to column contactors
  • Mass transfer coefficients
  • Distillation
  • Gas absorption
  • Solvent extraction processes and equipment
• Heat transfer
  • Types of heat transfer equipment
  • Fundamentals of conduction and convection, heat transfer coefficients
  • Evaporation
  • Heat transfer in batch vessels
  • Humidity and drying, dryer design
  • Joule-Thomson effect
• Introduction to process safety
  • Electrostatics
  • Principles of intrinsic and inherent safety
  • Pressure relief
  • Dust explosions
  • Instrumented protection
• Reaction engineering
  • Simple approaches to reactor design and selection
  • Reaction engineering principles