Area: | Department of Chemical Engineering |
Credits: | 25.0 |
Contact Hours: | 5.0 |
Lecture: | 1 x 3 Hours Weekly |
Tutorial: | 1 x 2 Hours Weekly |
Prerequisite(s): | 7053 (v.4) Chemistry 116 or any previous version
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7040 (v.6) Chemistry 102 or any previous version
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Co Requisite(s): | 302240 (v.3) ChE 227 Process Principles or any previous version
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Syllabus: | Energy statements for batch and flow processes. First, second and third laws. Available energy. Analysis of heating. Compression and expansion processes. Ideal and real gases. Compressibility factors and other methods of accounting for non-ideality. Phase behaviour and critical conditions. Phase equilibrium. Free energy and chemical potential. Mixtures and activity coefficients. Chemical reaction equilibrium. Power cycles. |
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Unit Outcomes: | On successful completion of this unit students wil have built on the fundamentals of the thermodynamic laws with applications to equilibrium processes such as vapour-liquid equilibrium and chemical reaction equilibrium. |
Texts and references listed below are for your information only and current as of September 30, 2003. Some units taught offshore are modified at selected locations. Please check with the unit coordinator for up-to-date information and approved offshore variations to unit information before finalising study and textbook purchases. |
Unit References: | Winnick, J., 1997, 'Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics', John Wiley, New York. Sandler, I. S., 1999, 'Chemical and Engineering Thermodynamics' 3 rd Edition, John Wiley, New York. |
Unit Texts: | Smith, J.M. and Van Ness, H.C., 2001, 'Introduction to Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics' 6th Edition, McGraw-Hill |
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Unit Assessment Breakdown: | Mini Tests 15%. Mid Semester Test 10%. Project 15%. Examination 60%. |
Field of Education: | 30301 Chemical Engineering | HECS Band (if applicable): | 2 |
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Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information: | Informational | Result Type: | Grade/Mark |
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Availability
| Year | Location | Period | Internal | Area External | Central External | | 2004 | Bentley Campus | Semester 1 | Y | | |
Area
External | refers to external course/units run by the School or Department, offered online or through Web CT, or offered by research. |
Central
External | refers to external course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area |
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