1996 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

Content
Applications of mass transfer operations such as distillation,
gas absorption, liquid-liquid extraction and leaching in
chemical manufacturing; descriptions of the equipment in
which these operations are carried out.
Behaviour of plate and packed columns; characteristics of
packings; bubble cap and sieve trays, weirs and
downcoomers; flooding, hold-up and pressure drop;
selection of optimum column diameter.
The concept of the equilibrium stage as applied to
distillation, liquid-liquid extraction, leaching and other mass
transfer operations. Graphical and computer-based design
techniques employing this concept McCabe-Thiele, Sore1
and Ponchon-Savrit methods.
Recommended reading
Treybal, R.E., Mass Tra.zfer Operations. 3rd edn, McGraw-Hill, 1980
Ludwig, E.E., Applied Process Den'gn for Chemical and Petrochemical
Plants. 2nd edn, Houston, Texas, Gulf Pub. Co., 1977
MP71 5 Heat Transfer
12 credit points li hours per week Hawthorn
Assessment: practical work and examination
Objectives
To provide the student with a sound approach to the design
and selection of heat transfer equipment.
Content
Description and characteristics of shell and tube exchangers,
and alternative geometries; boilers, condensers, etc. with
examples of their use.
Review of previous work in heat transfer, namely unidimensional
conduction, Newton's Law of cooling, overall
heat transfer coefficients.
Prediction of heat transfer coefficients by the mechanisms of
natural and forced convection, film and dropwise
condensation, nucleate and film boiling. LMTD, FT and E-
NTU methods to determine temperature driving forces.
Thermal rating of shell and tube exchangers; pressure drop
in heat exchangers.
Recommended readings
Coulson, J.M. and Richardson, J.F., Chemical Engineering. vol. 1,
4th edn, Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1990
Holman, J.P., Heat Tr&er. 6th edn, New York, McGraw-Hd, 1986
MP71 7 Industrial Processes and Pollution
Control
4 credit points 4 hours per week Hawthorn
Assessment: assignment and class participation
0 biectives
To teach students by the use of case studies and other means
to scientifically assess the possible pollution outcomes of
various processes.
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Use of process flow diagram. Simple process calculation
stoichiometry, combustion, heat and mass balances.
Disposal and dispersal of efficient, stack heights, etc.
Description of major industries and their problems
(aluminium industry, electroplating, etc.). Major
environmental issues of general concern (acid rain, atomic
power, PCBs, dioxide, dumping of toxic waste).
MP71 9 Occupational Health and Safety
4 credit points 4 hours per week Hawthorn
Assessment: assignments and examination
Obiectives
To provide a working knowledge of types of hazards
encountered in the workplace and means by which these
may be overcome.
Content
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Environmental hazards accident prevention. Work-related
injuries including tenosynovitis, back and muscle injuries.
Noise and vibration. Physics of sound. Measurement and
bio-effects. Heat and ventilation. Measurement of dusts and
fumes, bio-effects. Body temperature regulation, effects of
heat and cold. Radiation. Ionising and non-ionising
(including ultra-violet).
Toxicology toxic substance; mechanisms of action and
eeffects (carcinogenesis, mutagenesis,
teratogenesis). Routes of ingestion toxic substances including
heavyketals; benzene, PCB, solvents, etc.
Safety technology machine safety. Hazard identification.
Principles of machine guarding. Boilers and pressure vessels.
Safe working practices. Fire and explosion. Use of
flammable and explosive substances. Chemical safety.
Handling, chemical safety, hazard identification storage and
transport of dangerous and toxic chemicals.
MP724 Chemical Engineering Design
9 credit points li hours per week Hawthorn
Assessment: assignments, practical work and examination
Obiectives
To acquaint the student with the responsibilities of the
professional chemical engineer and some of the issues he or
she may have to confront.
To consolidate the student's previous work in computer
programming by applying it to problems relevant to his or
her future career.
Content
Computer-aided design the use of software packages for
flowsheeting, flowsheet preparation and layout; exercises in
preparation of computer solutions to problems in
momentum, heat and mass transfer.
Recommended reading
Ross. G., Computer Programming Examples for Chemical
Engineus. Amsterdam, Elsevier, 1987