302273 (v.2) ChE 499 Design Project

Area:

Department of Chemical Engineering

Credits:

50.0

Contact Hours:

10.0

** 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:

1 x 3 Hours Weekly

Individual Study:

1 x 10 Hours Weekly

Prerequisite(s):

302268 (v.2) ChE 411 Advanced Process Control or any previous version
AND
302269 (v.2) ChE 421 Risk Management or any previous version
AND
302270 (v.2) ChE 422 Advanced Separation Processes or any previous version
AND
302271 (v.2) ChE 481 Process Laboratory Projects or any previous version

Co Requisite(s):

302272 (v.2) ChE 423 Process Economics and Management 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 AS1210. Pump and piping specifications.

** 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:

030301 Chemical Engineering

Funding Cluster:

08 - Engineering, Science, Surveying

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Not Online
*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
2007	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	Y
2007	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