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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

311809 v.2 Chemical Engineering DD Major (BEng/BCom)

Introduction

Covers the development, design and operation of chemical processes and plants for the extraction, conversion and recovery of materials that is based on both chemical and biological systems. A great variety of process industries serve the needs of society. Among the more familiar are petroleum refining, gas processing, petrochemical and polymer production, bio-processing and bio-production, biopharmaceutics and food processing, fertilizer manufacture, cement and lime production, minerals and metals extraction and refining, paper and board manufacture, biomass and sugar refining, production of industrial and fine chemicals.

Course Structure Hrs/Wk Credit
Year 1
313683 v.1   Bachelor of Engineering Pre-Major 200.0
  200.0
Year 2 Semester 1
302240 v.4   Process Principles 227 5.0 25.0
302253 v.5   Process Heat Transfer 228 7.0 25.0
308807 v.1   Fluid Mechanics 230 4.0 25.0
  75.0
Year 2 Semester 2
302249 v.3   Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics 223 5.0 25.0
7040 v.6   Chemistry 102 7.0 25.0
  50.0
Year 3 Semester 1
302257 v.3   Process Mass Transfer 221 5.0 25.0
7039 v.5   Chemistry 101 7.0 25.0
  50.0
Year 3 Semester 2
313756 v.1   Process Engineering and Analysis 212 5.0 25.0
  25.0
Year 4 Semester 1
302262 v.3   Fluid and Particle Processes 324 5.0 25.0
302263 v.3   Reaction Engineering 325 5.5 25.0
313758 v.1   Process Modelling and Simulation 314 5.0 25.0
  75.0
Year 4 Semester 2
302260 v.3   Transport Phenomena 323 5.0 25.0
307668 v.2   Process Instrumentation and Control 328 5.0 25.0
313771 v.1   Process Synthesis and Design 312 5.0 25.0
  75.0
Year 5 Semester 1
302269 v.2   ChE 421 Risk Management 5.0 25.0
313791 v.1   Research Project 411 5.0 25.0
  50.0
Year 5 Semester 2
302273 v.2   ChE 499 Design Project 10.0 50.0
  50.0
Year 6 Semester 1
  SELECT OPTIONAL UNITS TO THE TOTAL VALUE OF:   25.0
  25.0
Optional Units to Select from in Year 6 Semester 1 Hrs/Wk Credit
302290 v.4   Petroleum Processing 475 6.0 12.5
305957 v.2   ChE 477 Computational Fluid Dynamics 2.0 12.5
307446 v.3   Biochemical Engineering 471 4.0 12.5
307660 v.4   Engineering Sustainable Development 201 2.0 12.5
310756 v.3   Fundamentals of Air Pollution Control 313 3.0 12.5
311182 v.2   Wastewater Treatment Processes 302 3.0 12.5
313762 v.1   Advanced Thermodynamics and Reactor Engineering 401 5.0 25.0
313763 v.1   Advanced Modelling and Control 401 5.0 25.0
313836 v.1   Advanced Particle Processes 415 3.0 25.0

NB    The year and/or semester that units are offered in may change due to the combination of Engineering and Commerce Majors