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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.

313603 v.2 Chemical Engineering Major (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 metals extraction and refining, paper and board manufacture, biomass and sugar refining, production of industrial and fine chemicals.

Course Structure Hrs/Wk Credit
313608 v.2   Chemical Engineering Stream (BEng) 275.0
  OR  
313609 v.3   Oil and Gas Stream (BEng) 275.0
  OR  
313610 v.2   Biosystems Engineering Stream (BEng) 275.0
  275.0
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
7039 v.5   Chemistry 101 7.0 25.0
  100.0
Year 2 Semester 2
302249 v.3   Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics 223 5.0 25.0
302257 v.3   Process Mass Transfer 221 5.0 25.0
7040 v.6   Chemistry 102 7.0 25.0
  75.0
Year 3 Semester 1
302263 v.3   Reaction Engineering 325 5.5 25.0
  25.0
Year 3 Semester 2
307668 v.2   Process Instrumentation and Control 328 5.5 25.0
  25.0
Year 4 Semester 1
302269 v.2   ChE 421 Risk Management 5.0 25.0
  25.0
Year 4 Semester 2
302272 v.2   ChE 423 Process Economics and Management 5.0 25.0
302273 v.2   ChE 499 Design Project 6.0 50.0
  75.0

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