303119 (v.2) Process Engineering 451

Area:	Department of Minerals Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	4.0
The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.
Lecture:	2 x 1 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	303126 (v.2) Pyrometallurgy 352 or any previous version
Syllabus:	Flowsheeting Principles: process units, streams, degrees of freedom analysis, simultaneous equation solution for both linear and non-linear equation sets using Excel; Copper Flash Furnace: smelting and converting principles, heat and mass balance modelling using Excel, sensitivity analysis of key process variables. Iron Blast Furnace: smelting principles, Rist equation analysis, two stage heat and mass balance modelling using Excel, sensitivity analysis of key process variables. Thermodynamic Process Modelling: Predominance area diagrams, phase rule analysis, simultaneous equilibria, non-ideal solution models, free energy minimisation simulation using Stepsol public domain software
To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.
Field of Education:	030303 Mining Engineering
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Informational *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2010	Kalgoorlie Campus	Semester 1	Y

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External