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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.

302273 (v.2) ChE 499 Design Project

Area: Department of Chemical Engineering
Credits: 50.0
Contact Hours: 6.0
Tuition Patterns: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Lecture: 2 x 3 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 7039 (v.5) Chemistry 101 or any previous version
AND
7040 (v.6) Chemistry 102 or any previous version
AND
302253 (v.5) Process Heat Transfer 228 or any previous version
AND
302257 (v.3) Process Mass Transfer 221 or any previous version
AND
302259 (v.3) Process Plant Engineering 322 or any previous version
AND
    302263 (v.3) Reaction Engineering 325 or any previous version
    OR
    302269 (v.2) ChE 421 Risk Management or any previous version
AND
307660 (v.4) Engineering Sustainable Development 201 or any previous version
AND
307668 (v.2) Process Instrumentation and Control 328 or any previous version
AND
308572 (v.1) ChE 312 Process Synthesis and Design I or any previous version
Syllabus: Process design. Process engineering. Project management. Process evaluation and selection. Site location, plant layout and process flowsheet and piping diagram. Preliminary design, specifications and equipment schedule. Environmental impact. Industrial codes and legislation. Design report: chemical engineering design. Mechanical engineering design. Operational aspects. Full specification and complete chemical engineering design Materials of construction, mechanical design, structural support, environmental, hazard operability (HAZOP), operability, costing, energy considerations, start-up and shutdown, maintenance, process control and instrumentation, and detailed drawing. Pressure vessel design using AS 1210. Pump and piping specifications.
Unit references, texts, outcomes and assessment details The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Field of Education: 030301 Chemical Engineering
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        
2012 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 2 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