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Courses Handbook 2011

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2011.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2010.

313608 v.1 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 1
313756 v.1   Process Engineering and Analysis 212 5.0 25.0
  25.0
Year 2 Semester 2
302251 v.4   ChE 224 Process Systems Analysis 5.0 25.0
  25.0
Year 3 Semester 1
302259 v.2   ChE 322 Process Plant Engineering 5.0 25.0
302260 v.2   ChE 323 Transport Phenomena 5.0 25.0
307660 v.4   Engineering Sustainable Development 201 2.0 12.5
308572 v.1   ChE 312 Process Synthesis and Design I 3.0 12.5
  75.0
Year 3 Semester 2
302262 v.2   ChE 324 Fluid and Particle Processes 5.0 25.0
302263 v.2   ChE 325 Reaction Engineering 5.0 25.0
302265 v.2 *   ChE 381 Process Laboratory Projects 3.0 12.5
  SELECT 1 OPTION   12.5
  75.0
Year 4 Semester 1
302261 v.3   ChE 414 Process Synthesis and Design II 3.0 12.5
302268 v.2   ChE 411 Advanced Process Control 2.5 12.5
302270 v.2   ChE 422 Advanced Separation Processes 5.0 25.0
  SELECT 1 OPTION   12.5
  62.5
Year 4 Semester 2
308384 v.1 *   ChE 415 Advanced Particle Processes 3.0 12.5
  12.5
Optional Units to Select from in Year 3 Semester 2 Hrs/Wk Credit
302303 v.2   ChE 474 Mineral Processing 3.0 12.5
302305 v.2   ChE 479 Advanced Special Topics 2.5 12.5
302307 v.2   ChE 494 Research Project 4 3.0 12.5
307446 v.2   ChE 471 Special Topics (Bioprocessing) 3.0 12.5
311182 v.1   ChE 302 Wastewater Treatment 3.0 12.5
311311 v.1   ChE 431 Advanced Risk Management 3.0 12.5
Optional Units to Select from in Year 4 Hrs/Wk Credit
313662 v.1   Process Laboratory Projects 481 5.0 25.0
Optional Units to Select from in Year 4 Semester 1 Hrs/Wk Credit
302280 v.2   ChE 374 Mineral Processing 2.5 12.5
302290 v.3   ChE 475 Petroleum Processing 3.0 12.5
302291 v.3   ChE 379 Special Topics (Biochemical Engineering) 4.0 12.5
302306 v.2   ChE 493 Research Project 3 3.0 12.5
305957 v.2   ChE 477 Computational Fluid Dynamics 2.0 12.5
310756 v.2   ChE 313 - Fundamentals of Air Pollution Control 3.0 12.5

#    Mid Year admission students will be required to complete this unit in place of *ChE381 Process Lab Project and *ChE415 Adv Particle Processes

*    Mid Year admission students will be required to complete this unit in place of *ChE381 Process Lab Project and *ChE415 Adv Particle Processes