CHEME 4320 - Chemical Engineering Laboratory

Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

Prerequisite: CHEME 3230, CHEME 3240, CHEME 3320, CHEME 3720 and CHEME 3900.

Q. Yu, Staff.

Laboratory experiments in fluid dynamics, heat transfer, mass transfer, separations, process control, and other unit operations fundamental to large-scale chemical processing. Data collection, analysis, and interpretation. Technical report writing. Process design and scale-up based on pilot-plant data.

Outcome 1: Design experiments and choose operating conditions to acquire data for solving a stated technical problem.

Outcome 2: Operate pilot-plant equipment and collect data accurately and safely.

Outcome 3: Use rigorous statistical methods, e.g. linear regression analysis and propagation of errors, to identify sources of uncertainty in measured variables and in parameters derived from curve-fits.

Outcome 4: Prepare graphs, data tables, and process flowcharts for concise, unambiguous presentation of results.

Outcome 5: Use results of small-scale, pilot-plant experiments for preliminary design of large-scale process equipment.

Outcome 6: Write laboratory reports that use graphs, data tables, process flowcharts, and equations to describe the methodology and present the results of data collection, data analysis, and process design.

Outcome 7: Work in four-person teams throughout.