Introduction to Chemical Engineering Syllabus Lecture Notes

Introduction to Chemical Engineering Syllabus Lecture Notes:

• The concepts of process units as building blocks of chemical processes. Examples of process units and chemical processes.
• The concept of Synthesis and Analysis of Chemical Processes.
• Use of Mass and Energy Conservation principles to solve material and energy balances over chemical processes in the absence and in the presence of chemical reactions. Perspective of these problems by general analysis of variables and equations.

Course Syllabus:

• Introduction - Fundamentals of Unit Operations, Process Units and Chemical Processes. Examples.
• Chemical Processes - Phases of development: Synthesis and Analysis of Chemical Processes.
• Material Balances in the absence and in the presence of chemical reactions. General analysis of variables and equations. Material balances for systems of process units.
• Energy balances in the absence and in the presence of chemical reactions. Forms of Energy and the first law of thermodynamics. Physical and chemical thermodynamic properties.
• Material and Energy balances. Simultaneous resolution of material and energy balances. The Adiabatic Flash Vaporization problem. Psychrometry. Using the Psychrometric chart (air-water system) to solve material and energy balances.

Books on Introduction to Chemical Engineering

- Myers, Alan L.; Introduction to Chemical Engineering and Computer Calculations . ISBN: 0- 13-479238-6 Complementary Bibliography
- Felder, Richard M.; Elementary principles of chemical processes . ISBN: 0-471-53478-1

- D. M. Himmelblau, J. R. Riggs; Basic Principles and Calculations in Chemical Engineering , Prentice Hall International Series , 2004 . ISBN: 0-13-123368-8