Principles of Chemical Processes II
0906.302.01
Wednesday 12:30-1:45, 3rd Floor Conference Room (309)
Thursday 9:30 – 10: 45, Rowan 102
332 Rowan Hall
256-5316
Richard M. Felder and Ronald W. Rousseau
John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1999.
Office Hours: MTR 2:30 - 4:00
These are times when students can be certain that I will be in my office.
However, students are welcome (and encouraged) to come or call at other times.
If I am in my office and not on the phone or with another student, I will make time for you. At minimum, we will arrange a time to meet that will accommodate both of our schedules.
Objectives: 1. Introduce the fundamentals of the energy balances and their role in chemical processes.
2. Expand the understanding of the engineering approach to open-ended problems
3. Develop the capacity to employ engineering judgment to assess the validity of
answers.
4. Use modern computer tools to solve process problems
5. Continue to develop the understanding of the importance of safety and environmental issues
Responsibilities: To succeed in this class, you should read the relevant material before coming to class, make a reasonable effort to do the assigned homework, hand in what you
accomplish, and ask questions on points that you do not understand. I will lecture on points in the book and on supplemental topics, attempt to answer all serious questions, make myself available to anyone needing extra help, administer fair but demanding exams, and grade and return assignments in a reasonable time. All exams will be graded by the next class period.
Grading: 2 1-hour exams 40%
Project Report 1 - Flowsheet 5%
Project Report 2 - Mass Balances 10%
Project Report 3 - Energy Balances 15%
Final Exam 30%
Policies:
1. Regular attendance is expected. You are responsible for all material whether you are in class or not. Class begins promptly and will end on time. Should we more than five minutes long more than 2 times during the semester (excluding answering questions), the instructor will bring donuts for the entire class.
2. Late work of any kind will not be graded. A single comprehensive make-up exam will be given at the end of the semester for students who miss any exam.
3. Each student will be assigned to a collaborative study group. If every member of that group scores above 80 on an exam, each group member will receive four bonus points on the exam.
4. Collaboration on homework is acceptable and encouraged, but all tests must be done independently.
5. Homework will be collected and scored on a 3-tier system. (+) indicates that the team made reasonable effort at solving all of the problems. (-) means the team gave sporadic effort on solving the problems or skipped a problem entirely. (0) indicates that the team made little or no effort on the problems. Although homework does not count directly in the course grade, no student can receive an "A" in the class if his or her team more than one (0) or more than two assignments that are anything but (+).
6. If you feel that a test problem has been graded improperly (except for misadding points), you must resubmit the problem within 24 hours along with a written appeal and explanation. Upon receipt of this formal appeal, I will regrade the problem. This means that your score may go up or down.
Tentative Schedule
1/22 Introduction, Syllabus Review, Basic Principles Chap 1-6
Team Selection
1/23 First Law of Thermo, Kinetic and Potential Energy 7.1 - 7.3
1/29 Energy Balances on Open Systems 7.4
1/30 Energy Balances on Open Systems (cont.)
2/5 Energy Balance Procedures 7.6
Semester Project Assigned
2/6 Selection of System + start Mechanical Energy Balance 7.6 - 7.7
2/12 Mechanical Energy Balance 7.7
2/13 Bernoulli Equation 7.8
2/19 Bernoulli Equation 7.8
2/20 Review and overflow
Wednesday, February 26th - Test #1 (Chapter 7 (plus chaps 1-6))
2/27 Test Summary + Balances on Non-Reactive Processes 8.1
3/5 Non-Reactive Processes and Changes in Pressure 8.1 - 8.2
Report #1 - Flowsheet Due
3/6 Changes in
Temperature 8.3
3/12 Heat Capacities 8.3
3/13 Phase Change Operations 8.4
3/19 SPRING
BREAK – No CLASS
3/20 SPRING
BREAK – No CLASS
3/26 Heats of Reaction and Hess' Law 9.1 - 9.2
3/27 Heats of Formation and Combustion 9.3 - 9.4
4/2 Survivor
Report #2 - Mass Balances Due
4/3 Energy Balances on Reactive Processes 9.5
4/9 Energy Balances on Reactive Processes (cont.)
4/10 Use of Process Simulators
4/16 Fuels and Combustion + review 9.6
Thursday, April 17th
- Test #2 (Chapters 8 - 9 (except 9.6))
4/23 Test Summary - Balances on Transient Processes 11.1
4/24 Use of Process Simulators
4/30 Survivor 2
Report #3 - Energy Balances Due
5/1 Review for Final Exam
Final Exam – Tuesday,
May 6th 10:15 A.M.
One Page Biography
Dr. Newell was born in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania (a suburb of Pittsburgh). He received a B.S. in Chemical and Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1988, his M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Penn State in 1990, and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Clemson University in 1994. His dissertation focused on the conversion of PBO to carbon fiber, and he received the American Carbon Society’s Mrozowski award for best student paper presentation in 1993. After completing his doctorate, he stayed on at Clemson for one year as a Visiting Assistant Professor before accepting a tenure-track position at the University of North Dakota in 1995. He moved to Rowan University as an Associate Professor in 1998.
Dr. Newell has been published in Chemical Engineering Education, High-Performance Polymers, Carbon, The International Journal of Engineering Education, the Journal of SMET Education, Recent Research Development in Applied Polymer Science, The Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites, and The Journal of Applied Polymer Science, and has co-authored a textbook chapter on the spinning of carbon fiber precursors. His work has been presented at several international conferences in Spain and the United States. In 2001, he received the Ray Fahien Award from The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) for contributions to engineering education. In 1997, he was named as the Dow Outstanding New Faculty Member by the North Midwest Section of ASEE. His current research activities include examinations of structure-property relationships in high-performance fibers, modeling of compressive and tensile failure using Weibull statistics, and rubric development for assessment of learning outcomes from group research projects. Dr. Newell is a member of the American Carbon Society, The American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and ASEE, where he serves as Secretary/Treasurer for the Chemical Engineering Division.
Dr. Newell is an avid baseball fan (the Pirates will win again someday), and reader (his favorite book is John Irving’s A Prayer for Owen Meany). He enjoys spending time with his wife, Heidi, daughter Jessica (born January 17, 2000) and cat, Dakota. Heidi completed her Ph.D. in Educational Administration at the University of North Dakota and is currently employed as the Assessment Consultant for the College of Engineering at Rowan.