ENCH494-23S2 (C) Semester Two 2023

Process Engineering Design 3

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 July 2023
End Date: Sunday, 12 November 2023
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 30 July 2023
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 1 October 2023

Description

A group project, where students have the opportunity to go through all the steps of designing a process plant including feedstock and process selections, mass and energy balances, control strategy, project economics, process safety, environmental impact, and community engagement.

This course provides students with a close to real world experience of process engineering.  It is built around a major design project where students have the opportunity to go through all the steps of a real design project as outlined in the learning outcomes below.  The major project also provides the experience of working in groups, an important skill for life after university.  

Students work in groups of four (or three) on their design projects during semester 2.  Each group must produce an executive report and hand in their working folders at the completion of each major section of the design. There are three reports: two during the semester and the final report is due in late October (more details below).  Students will make 3 presentations to their design supervisors during the course of their project (one in the third term and two in the fourth term and exam period). They will be group presentations where all the students in a design group will be given the same mark.  There will be two formal group presentations as you might give to an external customer and one informal, round table style presentation as you might give to your boss at a consultancy.  In the final individually written assessment, each student will describe their personal contribution to the design project and will be awarded an individual mark. The project report mark will be biased by peer- and supervisor-assessment of an individual student’s contribution to the group effort. The basis for the peer assessment will be explained in tutorials.

Learning Outcomes

  • To apply the design process in a team environment to a real chemical engineering project including:

  • Determining the best choice of process
  • Creating a process flow diagram
  • Quantifying material and energy balances
  • Creating a control strategy
  • Creating a detailed design of a select unit operation
  • Creating a piping and instrumentation diagram for a select unit operation
  • Evaluating the economics of the project
  • HazOp assessment of a major unit operation
  • Evaluating the impact the process will have on the surrounding community

Prerequisites

a pass in all compulsory Second Professional Year courses, ENCH496 and ENCH497

Timetable Note

Major project report and presentations and safety assessment case.  Students should expect to work for 20 hours a week during semester 2 on their major design project.

Course Coordinator

Matt James Watson

Lecturer

Peter Gostomski

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Executive Report 75% Executive Report (3 parts) due 18 Aug, 3 Oct, 31 Oct
3 x Group Presentation (group) 12% Group presentations (3) due week of 14 Aug, week of 11 Sep and 19/20 Oct
Team work and time management 28 Jul 2023 3%
Presentation (Individual) 03 Nov 2023 10% Individual contribution to the Design Project (10%)

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended Reading

Douglas, James M; Conceptual design of chemical processes ; McGraw-Hill, 1988.

Towler, Gavin P. , Sinnott, R. K; Chemical engineering design :principles, practice, and economics of plant and process design ; 2nd ed; Butterworth-Heinemann, 2013.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $2,328.00

International fee $11,500.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Chemical and Process Engineering .

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