Credit Structure:(3-0)3

Catalog Description:
A brief survey of chemical process principles with a clear orientation to biotechnology. Material and energy balances, basic pripciples of thermodynamics, kinetics and transfer operations. It aims to provide a knowledge and basic skills of process handling from engineering point of view to non-engineering students.

Course Objectives:
This course is designed to teach the basic process principles to non-engineering students enrolled in M.S. or Ph.D. programs in biotechnology.

Prerequisites:
None

Textbook(s):
R.M. Felder, R.W.Rousseau, "Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes", 2nd Ed., John Wiley, 1986
S.H.Fogler, "Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering", 2nd Ed., Prentice Hall, 1992
C.H.Wolgemuth, "Introduction to Thermal Sciences", 2nd Ed., Wiley, 1993

Reference:
None

Syllabus:
1. Introduction (1 week)
2. Material balances (2 weeks)
3. Energy balances (3 weeks)
4. General expressions for transfer operations (1 week)
5. Fluid mechanics (1 week)
6. Heat transfer mechanisms (2 weeks)
7. Mass tranfser fundamentals (1 week)
8. Review of chemical reaction kinetics (2 weeks)
9. Midterms (1 week)

Homeworks, Quizzes, Projects:
Bi-weekly homeworks are given

Computer Usage:
None

Laboratory work:
None

Category Content:
Mathematics and Basic Sciences: None
Engineering Design: None
Engineering Sciences: 3 credits
Humanities & Social Sciences: None
Departmental: None

Instructors:
Suzan Kincal