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effects associated with financial risk; cost benefit analysis
principles and techniques; forecasting techniques; project
financing.
Reference
Carew. E. Fast Money 3. North Sydney: Allen 8 Unwin, 1991
~ ~ 7 4Instrumentation 0
and Measurement
Systems
No. of hours per week: two hours
Assessment: assignment, laboratory and
examination
A subject in the Graduate Diploma in Chemical Engineeri'ng.
Subject aims and description
This subject aims to give a basic foundation in the principles
and practice involved in instrumentation and measurement
systems used in the chemical industry.
Principles and role of sensors for the measurement of
displacement, time velocity, force, pressure, flow-rate, density
and temperature. Transducing elements for conversion
among mechanical, thermal and electrical quantities,
including examples of electro-mechanical, capacitance, piezoelectric,
resistance, inductance, and thermo-electric
transducers.
Analysis of the static and dynamic performance of electromechanical
transducers, input-output characteristics of
transducer;; compatibility of transducers, amplifiers.
measuring circuits and recorders in measuring systems.
Applications of digital measurement techniques, digital type
transducers, digital to analogue and analogue to digital
conversions, data transfer and communications between
microcomputers.
References
Bell, O.A. Electmnic lnsmmentation and Measurements. Reston, VA:
Reston Pub. Co., 1983
Del Toro, V. Electrical Engineering Fundamentals. 2nd ed, Engelwood
Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall. 1986
Doebelin, E.O. Measurement Systems: Application and Design. 4th
ed, Tokyo: McGraw Hill. 1990
~ ~ 7 4Control 1 Engineering
No. of hours per week: two hours
Assessment: assignment and examination
A subject in the Graduate Diploma in Chemical Engineering.
Subject aims and description
An introduction to classical methods of analysis for linear
control systems.
lntroduction to closed-loop control: definitions, terminology
and examples. Mathematical modelling of physical systems:
transfer functions, linearisation, block diagrams of closedloop
systems. Transient analysis: the inverse transform and
the time solution of linear models, response of first and
second order sy;terns to a unit impulse and unit step inputs.
Stability analysis: Routh's stability criterion for linear control
systems. Frequency response analpis: steady state solution to
sinusoidal inputs and the frequency response function G
(jw), representation on logarithmic plots - Bode diagrams,
nyquist stability criterion.
Textbook
Dransfield, F! Systems and Control, Par? 1 and 2. Monash University,
1988
References
Ogata, K. Modem Contml Engineering. Englwod Cliffs, N.J.:
Prentice-Hall International, 1970
Palm, W.J. Modeling Analysis and Control of Dynamic Systems. New
York: Wilq: 1983
Palm, W.J. (Ill). Contml Systems Engineering. New York: Wiley, 1986
MM755 Equipment Life Cycle
No. of hours per week: two hours
Assessment: project
A subject in the Graduate Diploma in Chemical Engineering.
Subject aims and description
This subject aims to introduce students to engineering
aspect of equipment life cycle; from conception through
definition, realisation, integration, commissioning, life usage
and ultimate decommissioningldisposal.
Types of equipment; fixed and mobile: equipment acquisition
and procurement cycle; design research and development;
equipment trialling, testing and demonstration.
Maintenance strategy: types and approaches, preventive
maintenance, condition monitoring. Integration and
commissioning process.
Maintenance operations: maintenance planning and control,
work planning, resource analysis and allocation, maintenance
activities, repair and performance and condition monitoring.
Maintenance access and creation of maintenance windows.
Measures of maintenance effectiveness.
Configuration: configuration control and modification.
Decommissioning, disposal and system replacement.
Textbooks
To be advised
References
Byrt. W.J. and Masten, P.R. The Australian Manager. 2nd ed,
Melbourne: MacMillan, 1982
Corder, A.5, Maintenance Management Techniques. London: McCrraw
Hill, 1976
Cunningham, C.E. and Cox, W. Applied Maintainability Engineering.
N.Y.: Wiley Interscience, 1978
Dhillon, B.S. and Reiche, H. Reliability and Maintainability
Management. NY.: Von Nostrand Rheinhold, 1985
Kelly, A.H. Maintenance Planning and Contml. London: Buttennlorths,
1984
Moss, M.A. Designing for Minimal Maintenance Expense: The
Practical Application of Reliability and Maintainability N.Y.: M. Dekker,
1985
MM756 Chemical Engineering Design 3
No. of hour; per week: two hours
Assessment: examination
A subject in the Graduate Diploma in Chemical Engineering.
Subject aims and description
This subject aims to give students a basic understanding of
the principles involved in the design of batch and continuous
reactors, and to specifically study the operation of small
scale batch plant as used in many Australian industries.
Reactor design - a review of chemical reaction kinematics,
flow kinematics of various reactor types including batch,
tubular and CSTR, temperature and pressure effects on
reactor performance. Adiabatic and isothermal operation.
Gas and liquid phase reactions. Heterogeneous operations.
Batch processes - unsteady state operation of chemical
plant with examples including batch distillation, batch
drying, batch filtration, batch reactors and batch leaching
and absorption, solvent extraction, ion exchange, semibatch
operation.
Textbooks
Coulson, J.M., Richardson, J.F. and Backhunt. J.R. Chemical
Engineering, Wl. 2. 3rd ed, Pergarnon Press, 1977
Denbigh, K.G. and Turner, J.C.R. Chemical Reactor Theory: An
lntroduction 3rd ed. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge Univenity
Press, 1984
Levenspiel, 0. lntroduction to Reaction Engineering
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