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CHEN E4030y Biocolloid engineering design
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Borden.
Prerequisite: CHEE E4252 or the instructor’s permission.
Introduction to biocolloid engineering
and design for applications in molecular imaging
and targeted drug and gene delivery. Emphasis
on self-assembling structures including microbubbles,
micelles, vesicles, emulsions, and polymer
complexes. Treatment of biocompatibility and
interactions with cells, biological fluids, and physiological
systems.
CHEE E4050y Principles of industrial electrochemistry
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Duby.
Prerequisite: CHEN E3010. A presentation of
the basic principle underlying electrochemical
processes. Thermodynamics, electrode kinetics,
and ionic mass transport. Examples of industrial
and environmental applications illustrated by
means of laboratory experiments: electroplating,
refining, and winning in aqueous solutions and
in molten salts; electrolytic treatment of wastes;
primary, secondary, and fuel cells.
CHEN E4110x Transport phenomena, III
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Durning.
Prerequisite: CHEN E3120. Tensor analysis;
kinematics of continua; balance laws for onecomponent
media; constituitive laws for free energy
and stress in one-component media; exact and
asymptotic solutions to dynamic problems in fluids
and solids; balance laws for mixtures; constitutive
laws for free energy, stress and diffusion fluxes
in mixtures; solutions to dynamic problems in
mixtures.
CHAP E4120x Statistical mechanics
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor O’Shaughnessy.
Prerequisite: CHEN E3010 or equivalent thermodynamics
course, or the instructor’s permission.
Fundamental principles and underlying assumptions
of statistical mechanics. Boltzmann’s
entropy hypothesis and its restatement in terms
of Helmholtz and Gibbs free energies and for
open systems. Correlation times and lengths.
Exploration of phase space and observation
timescale. Correlation functions. Fermi-Dirac and
Bose-Einstein statistics. Fluctuation-response
theory. Applications to ideal gases, interfaces,
liquid crystals, microemulsions and other complex
fluids, polymers, Coulomb gas, interactions
between charged polymers and charged interfaces,
ordering transitions.
CHEN E4140x Chemical and biochemical
separations
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Banta.
Prerequisites: CHEN E3100, E3120, and E3210,
or the instructor’s permission. Design and analysis
of unit operations employed in chemical and
biochemical separations. Emphasis is placed on
learning the fundamental aspects of distillation,
gas adsorption, and crystallization through a combination
of lectures, open-ended problem solving,
self-learning exercises, and computer process
simulation.
CHEN E4201x Engineering applications of
electrochemistry
Lect: 3. 3pts. Professor West.
Prerequisites: Physical chemistry and a course
in transport phenomena. Engineering analysis
of electrochemical systems, including electrode
kinetics, transport phenomena, mathematical
modeling, and thermodynamics. Common experimental
methods are discussed. Examples from
common applications in energy conversion and
metallization are presented.
CHEN E4230y Reaction kinetics and
reactor design
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Leonard.
Prerequisite: CHEN E3010. Reaction kinetics,
applications to the design of batch and continuous
reactors. Multiple reactions, non-isothermal
reactors. Analysis, modeling of reactor behavior.
Required recitation.
CHEE E4252x Introduction to surface and
colloid chemistry
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Somasundaran.
Prerequisite: Elementary physical chemistry.
Thermodynamics of surfaces, properties of surfactant
solutions and surface films, electrostatic
and electrokinetic phenomena at interfaces,
adsorption; interfacial mass transfer and modern
experimental techniques.
CHEN E4300x Chemical engineering control
Lab: 2. 2 pts. Professor Borden.
Prerequisites: Ordinary differential equations
(including Laplace transforms), CHEN E3100, and
CHEN E4230. An introduction to process control
applied to chemical engineering through lecture
and laboratory. Concepts include the dynamic
behavior of chemical engineering systems, feedback
control, controller tuning, and process stability.
CHEN E4320x Molecular phenomena in
chemical engineering
Lect: 3. 4 pts. Professor O’Shaughnessy.
This new course located strategically at the end
of the curriculum is intended to provide students
with a molecular basis for the engineering concepts
covered in the curriculum. It is meant to both
validate the basic science and math foundations
developed earlier and to stimulate the student
toward applying modern molecular concepts of
chemical engineering that will define their future.
CHEN E4330y Advanced chemical kinetics
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor McNeill.
Prerequisite: CHEN E4230y or the instructor’s
permission. Complex reactive systems. Catalysis.
Heterogeneous systems, with an emphasis on
coupled chemical kinetics and transport phenomena.
Reactions at interfaces (surfaces, aerosols,
bubbles). Reactions in solution.
CHEN E4410x Environmental control technology
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Zudkevitch.
Prerequisite: CHEN E3010 or the equivalent.
Causes of pollution and effect on life. Legal
aspects, OSHA and EPA rules. Pollution at home
and at work; radon, fumes, and dust; ventilation,
dust collection, carbon adsorption. Fuel and acid
gases, smog and dispersion. Treatment of
ground, saline, and waste water. Primary and
secondary (biological) treatment. Tertiary water
treatment with membranes, ion exchange, carbon,
and sieves. Solid and hazardous waste.
Visit New York City waste water treatment plant.
CHEN E4500x Process and product design, I
Lect: 3. 4 pts. Professor Kumar.
Prerequisites: CHEN E4140 and E3100. An introduction
to the process engineering function. The
design of chemical process, process equipment,
and plants and the economic and ecological
evaluation of the chemical engineering project.
Use of statistics to define product quality is illustrated
with case studies.
CHEN E4510y Process and product design, II
Lect: 4. 4 pts. Professors Kumar and Hill.
Prerequisite: CHEN E4500. Students carry out a
semester-long process or product design course
with significant industrial involvement. The project
culminates with a formal written design report and
a public presentation.
CHEE E4530y Corrosion of metals
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Duby.
Prerequisite: CHEN E3010. The theory of electrochemical
corrosion, corrosion tendency, rates,
and passivity. Application to various environments.
Cathodic protection and coatings. Corrosion testing.
CHEN E4600x Atmospheric aerosols
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor McNeill.
Prerequisite: CHEN E3120 or the instructor’s permission.
Atmospheric aerosols and their effects
on atmospheric composition and climate. Major
topics are aerosol sources and properties, field
and laboratory techniques for characterization,
gas-aerosol interactions, secondary organic
aerosols, and aerosol direct and indirect effects
on climate.
CHEN E4620y Introduction to polymers and
soft materials
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Durning.
Prerequisites: An elementary course in physical
chemistry or thermodynamics. Organic chemistry,
statistics, calculus and mechanics are helpful, but
not essential. An introduction to the chemistry and
physics of soft materials systems (polymers, colloids,
organized surfactant systems, and others),
emphasizing the connection between microscopic
structure and macroscopic physical properties.
To develop an understanding of each system,
illustrative experimental studies are discussed
along with basic theoretical treatments. High
molecular weight organic polymers are discussed
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