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Courses Handbook 2013

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2013.
Information for the previous year's courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2012.

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
  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
314448 v.1   Principles and Processes in Chemistry 100 6.0 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
314450 v.1   Reactivity and Function in Chemistry 120 6.0 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.3   Risk Management 421 5.0 25.0
  25.0
Year 4 Semester 2
302272 v.3   Process Economics and Management 423 5.0 25.0
302273 v.3   Design Project 499 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

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