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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.

313608 v.2 Chemical Engineering Stream (BEng)

Introduction

Chemical Engineering 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 metal extraction and refining, paper and board manufacture, biomass and sugar refining, production of industrial and fine chemicals.

Course Structure Hrs/Wk Credit
Year 2 Semester 2
313756 v.1   Process Engineering and Analysis 212 5.0 25.0
  25.0
Year 3 Semester 1
302262 v.3   Fluid and Particle Processes 324 5.0 25.0
307660 v.4   Engineering Sustainable Development 201 2.0 12.5
313758 v.1   Process Modelling and Simulation 314 5.0 25.0
  SELECT 1 OPTION   12.5
  75.0
Year 3 Semester 2
302260 v.3   Transport Phenomena 323 5.0 25.0
313771 v.1   Process Synthesis and Design 312 5.0 25.0
  50.0
Year 4 Semester 1
313791 v.1   Research Project 411 5.0 25.0
  SELECT 1 OPTION   25.0
  50.0
Year 4 Semester 2
Optional Units to Select from in Year 3 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
310756 v.3   Fundamentals of Air Pollution Control 313 3.0 12.5
311182 v.2   Wastewater Treatment Processes 302 3.0 12.5
Optional Units to Select from in Year 4 Semester 1 Hrs/Wk Credit
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