Chemical Engineering (design) topics

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Good engineering practice produces quantitative results as we need them. But educationally, we want to understand how a device or process works even just to consider its possible use for a given application. Both of these questions fall under the broad category of "Design". In this class key fundamentals of heat transfer, fluid flow, mass transfer, and thermodynamics will be used to examine the various pieces of process equipment in the Imperial College pilot plant, to analyze "historic" technologies that can be seen in London museums and to determine if proposed "green energy" projects are likely to have a lower CO2 impact than existing technologies.