1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

SCE306 Industry Based Learning 1
50 credit points Assessment: report and satisfactory
achievements of employer requirements
This is a third year subject in the Bachelor of Engineering
(Chemical).
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To complete 24 weeks of full time paid employment in
an appropriate industrial setting.
To work as an engineering trainee under the direction of
a professional engineer and be an effective part of a
multi-disciplinary team within the industry
To develop and document professional engineering
practice for all industry assignments and to
communicate professionally in written and verbal forms.
To establish and refine personal development skills in
order to develop engineering competence towards the
professional level.
To implement and gain further understanding of
engineering management skills and practices operating
within engineering organisational structures.
To observe and appreciate significant trends in
employment work groups and industrial relations.
To understand and apply quality control and assurance
techniques.
Content
Work requirements are established by the employer in
consultation with Swinburne University.
Recommended reading
As suggested by the Swinburne academic supervisor to support
the student's task environment.
SCE400 Heat Transfer
10 credit points 4 hours per week Hawthorn
Instruction: lectures, tutorials, laboratory work Assessment:
examination 70%, tests 15%, assignments 15%
Prerequisites: Basic Process Calculations, Fluid Mechanics
A fourth year subject in the Bachelor of Chemical
Engineering
Objectives
To develop competence in the application of heat transfer
theory to the analysis of practical heat transfer problems,
design and selection of heat exchangers, and evaluation of
heat exchanger performance.
Content
Review: the laws of conservation of mass and energy and
their applications. The second law of thermodynamics.
Differential equations and their applications in rate
processes.
Mechanisms of heat transfer; theory and applications:
Conduction: Fourier' law of heat conduction. Thermal
conductivity. Concept of thermal resistance and driving
force. Steady-state heat conduction through a single plane
wall, composite walls, and thick-walled cylinders and
spheres. Multi-dimensional and transient conduction.
Numerical methods.
Convection: Heat-transfer coefficient. Fluid flow in
convection; laminar and turbulent flow; boundary-layer
theory. Concept of similarity; dimensional analysis.
Prediction of heat-transfer coefficients in forced and natural
convection, condensation and boiling heat transfer. Heat
exchangers: types and construction; film and overall
coefficients; log-mean temperature difference; effectiveness-
NTU method; fouling factor; pressure drop; optimum
design of shell-and-tube heat exchangers.
Radiation: Nature of thermal radiation; black-body and
real-body radiation; Stefan-Boltzmann's equation; Planck's
law of radiation. Radiation properties of surfaces:
absorptivity and emissivity.
Radiation exchange among surfaces in a non-participating
medium; view factor. Gas radiation. Solar radiation.
Recommended reading
Incropera, F.P., & De Witt, D.P., Fundamentals of Heat and Mass
Transfw. 3rd ed., John Wiley, 1990.
Holman, J P. Heat Transfer. SI ed., Mc-Graw Hill, 1989.
Coulson, J M, Richardson, J F & Backhurst, J R. Chemical
Engineering. Vol. 1,4th ed., Pergamon Press, 1990.
Heat Exchanger Design Handbook. 5 volumes. Hemisphere
Publishing Corporation, 1988 - 1993 (Suppl.5.)
Kern, D Q. Process Heat Transfer. McGraw Hill, 1950.
Bird, R B, Stewart, W E & Lightfoot, E N. Transport Phenomena.
John Wiley & Sons, 1960.
SCE401 Mass Transfer
10 credit points 4 hours per week Hawthorn
Instruction: lectures, tutorials Assessment: examination
85%, assignments 15% Prerequisites: Basic Process
Calculations, Fluid Mechanics
A fourth year subject in the Bachelor of Chemcial
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To apply the principles of mass transfer and phase
equilibrium to problems involving diffusion with or without
chemical reactions, to separation processes, and to the design
of equipment used in mass transfer operations.
Content
Diffusion mass transfer: Fick's law; diffusion coefficient;
steady-state diffusion in single-phase systems. Binary and
multi-component diffusion. Unimolar transfer and
equimolar counter-transfer. Diffusion with chemical
reaction. Transient diffusion.
Convective mass transfer: mass-transfer coefficient: film and
overall coefficients. Fluid flow in convection; laminar and
turbulent flow; boundary-layer theory. Interphase mass
transfer; phase equilibrium; theories of interphase mass
transfer: . film . theory, penetration theory, random surface
renewal theory.
Design of continuous differential contactors. Height of
transfer unit and number of transfer units.
Combined heat and mass transfer: humidification, drying,
and crystallization.
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