Homeworks S2010:  HW1; HW2; HW3; HW4; HW5; HW6; HW7; HW8; HW9
Exams S2010 Exam 1; Exam 2; Exam 3; Final Exam

Exams S2010:  Friday April 16, 4-5pm; Friday May 7, 4-5pm; Friday May 28, 4-5pm; Final Exam Tuesday June 8, 2:15-4:15pm (or Thursday 513 Rhodes 2:15)

Course Synopsis:  Materials and Energy Balances covers the basic premise of Chemical Engineering which is that complex chemical systems can be analytically examined, predicted, controlled and designed based on a black box balance of mass and energy.  The course provides some of the fundamental tools that Chemical Engineers use in their day-to-day work.  The course covers topics that will be equally used by engineers working at understanding petrochemical plants to those seeking to understand the human body and almost every complex chemical problem between.  The course is intended to equip students with methods to address complex problems and to break problems down into systems that can be described with mathematics, thermodynamics and chemistry.  Some of the material may seem rudimentary and to repeat topics covered even in high school science classes such as unit conversions and simple functionalities used in science and engineering.  These topics are intended to ensure that the entire class is on a level field when advancing to higher level studies in Chemical Engineering as well as to ensure that our graduates have a firm grasp of the basics.  The middle and later parts of the course apply topics learned in Thermodynamics and Chemistry to Engineering problems in the Chemical Industry.  Emphasis is on gas phase and liquid phase chemical processes.  The course is composed of both Chemical and Materials Engineers, so some effort will be made to bring in topics more natural to Materials Engineers within the context of the text that is used.

Course Logistics and Grading:
The course will meet 3 times per week on Tuesday and Thursday for lectures and on Friday for problem sessions.  We will cover about one chapter per week in the text "Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes, 3'rd Edition" by R. M. Felder and R. W. Rousseau, John Wiley & Sons 2005 Hoboken, NJ.  There will be 3 exams in the class (during normal class time) and a  comprehensive final.  Weekly homework assignments will be introduced in the problem session with about a 30 minute discussion by the Professor followed by students working on the problems with help from the professor and TA's.  The homeworks will be due on Monday at midnight in 492 Rhodes Hall. 

Only whole grades will be assigned following the usual convention: A at or above 90.0, B at or above 80.0 and C at or above 70.0.  There will be no scaling and it is possible that everyone in the class can get an A.
The 10 homeworks will be give a value of 10% of the grade (1% each).  The remaining 90% will be divided between the 3 exams at 20% each and the comprehensive final at 30%.

Course Schedule:
Week 1:  Unit Conversion, Mathematical Functionality, Perry's Section 1: Conversion Factors and Mathematical Symbols, Perry's Section 3: Mathematics
                Reynolds Number; Fanning Friction Factor; Prandtl Number; Nusselt Number; Grashof Number; Peclet Number
                Schmidt Number; Rayleigh Number; Sherwood Number; Archimedes Number; Table; Another Table; Buckingham π-theorem; Dimensional Analysis;
                Linear Regression, Derivation of Linear Regression
Week 2:  Commonly Encountered Chemical Process Parameters, Perry's Section 2: Physical and Chemical Data
                API gravity; Hydrometer; Notes
Week 3:  Flow Charts and the Black Box Approach (and its limitations)
                Lab Distillation vs. Industrial Distillation Pilot Plant, Production
Week 4:  Density and PVT functionality, Perry's Section 4: Thermodynamics, Section 2: Physical and Chemical Data
                Ideal Gas Derivation and Non-Ideality, WikiSolubility
Week 5:  Physical and Chemical Separation Processes
Week 6:  Energy Balances
Week 7:  More Thermodynamic Balances
Week 8:  Chemical Reactions and the Black Box Approach
Week 9:  Computational Methods for the Black Box
Week 10:  Non-Steady State Problems and the Black Box

These topics will follow the text except that we have skipped Chapter 1 so that Week 2 covers Chapter 3 etc.

Perry's Chemical Engineer's Handbook
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Recitation Groups (Each group turns in one homework COLLATED WITH ONE PROBLEM PER PAGE)
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