Module 1 Pumps in Series or Parallel
This module is intended for 2nd or 3rd year students who have completed or are completing general thermodynamics. This module is suitable for inclusion in a preliminary design subject which discusses pump system curves.
Keywords: Pumps, Material Balance, Energy Balance, Hydraulics, Pump Curves
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Module 2 Chimney Tray at Reboiler
This module is aimed at final year students who have completed preliminary process control and heat and mass transfer courses. This module is compatible to a final year design course (which would discuss distillation) or final year process control course.
Keywords: Material Balance, Energy Balance, Data Discrepancy, Distillation, Heat Exchanger
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Module 3 The Corroded Heat Exchanger
This module is intended for 3rd or 4th year students who have completed courses relating to heat transfer and heat exchanger design. The module is suitable for inclusion in a intermediate design course (one which might include heat exchanger design or corrosion studies) or a general problem solving class.
Keywords: Heat Exchanger, Corrosion, Energy Balance.
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Module 4 The Funny Filter
This module is aimed at 3rd year students who have completed fluid dynamics and have some familiarity with process flow sheets (ie completed a preliminary design subject). This module could be included in a design based course which discusses some of the practical applications and methods of process control.
Keywords: Filter, Control, Differential Pressure, Process Flow-Sheet, Design Intent
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Module 5 Air Compressor Capacity
This module is intended for 3rd year students who have completed a preliminary thermodynamics course. This module is compatible with a preliminary design course which would discuss the operations of gas compressors.
Keywords: Compressor, Ideal Gas Law, Motors, Compressor Performance
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Module 6 Pumps on a Ship
This module is aimed at 2nd or 3rd year students who completed a fluid dynamics course and are familiar with process unit operations. The module is suitable for inclusion in a general problem solving class or a preliminary design course which would discuss pumping operations and metering.
Keywords: Material Balance, Storage Accumulations, Pumping, Metering, Density Change, Buoyancy
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Module 7 Fouling Heat Exchanger in a Distillation System
This module is intended for 4th year students who have completed courses in heat and mass transfer and heat exchanger design (ie a preliminary design course). This module is compatible with a final year design course (which would discuss distillation) or a general problem solving course.
Keywords: Distillation Column, Reboiler, Condenser, Binary Distillation, McCabe-Theile, Fouling
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Module 8 Making the Accountant Happy
This module is intended to challenge the students to think in unconventional ways. The problem requires them to develop a way to measure the flow of a stream, when a normal flowmeter in the process fluid is not allowed. Even though it only involves material and energy balances, it may be suitable only for upper level students.
Keywords: Material Balance, Energy Balance
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Module 9 Chemical Engineers Prefer Induced Draft
This module is intended for 2nd or 3rd year students who have completed or are completing a preliminary thermodynamics course. This problem could be included in a preliminary thermodynamics course or a preliminary design course which would discuss heat exchanger design.
Keywords: Fin Fan, Heat Exchanger, Forced Draft, Induced Draft, Shaft Work, Energy Balance.
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Module 10 Modification to the Fire Water System
This module is intended to show their understanding of centrifugal pumps and fluid mechanics in a real application, using elevation as the key unit. It is a very straight forward problem, using only water as the fluid.
Keywords: Fluid Flow, Pressure, Pumps
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Module 11 High Pressure Pumping Simulation
This module is a numerical methods problem, rather than a traditional chemical engineering unit oprations problem, but it does hightlight the need to understand our computer simulations. The problem shows a liquid being pumped to very high pressures, and there is an abnormal temperature rise. A Mollier diagram is presented to test the ability to apply graphs to check numerical simulations.
Keywords: Numerical Methods. Thermodynamics. Phase Behaviour
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Module 12 Control of a Cooling Water System
This module is aimed at getting the students to optimize a utility system to minimise operating costs. It requires the ability to understand heat transfer equations, and apply constraints to a network, in addition to using simple closed loop control logic.
Keywords: Control, material balance, energy balance
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Module 13 Control System Analysis
This module is intended for 3rd or 4th year students who have completed preliminary process design and control courses. The module is suitable for use in intermediate process design or control courses which would discuss practical control scenarios.
Keywords: Process Control, Pumping, Split Range Control, Level Control, Control Valve, Design Intent.
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Module 14 Disaster Investigation
This module is aimed at seeing how well students can work to a situation where the data has been destroyed. It requires them to use logic and detective skills to try to determine what happened. Best suited for students that have seen a real installation – such as the university air compressor.
Keywords: Fire, unsteady state
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Module 15 Differential Pressure Measurement
This module is intended to show that what is designed is sometimes not what is intended. A system that is well designed does not work, and the students are asked to determine why it does not work.
Keywords: Material balance, control
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Module 16 Numerical Methods and Thermodynamics
This module is aimed at showing that a numerical methods simulation may not give the desired result, even though the simulation converges with no warnings. Depending upon the order of data entrered, the simulation will converge to three different solutions. Suitable for any student with a knowledge of numerical methods and thermodynamics.
Keywords: Numerical methods, thermodynamics, simulation
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Module 17 Fuel Control System
This module is intended for students to be introduced to practical control, and to understand why control is needed. It is a simple but complex problem where the students are asked to minimise the operating costs of fuel consumption – given three different fuels. There are other additional portions of this problem to add complexity for extra credit or to separate the better students from the lesser students.
Keywords: Control, material balance, energy balance, steady state
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