1997 QUT Handbook

ing greenhouse, acid rain and ozone depletion.
Courses: CE42
Credit Points: 6 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ CHB473 PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY 4
Thermodynamics; surface chemistry; dynamic
electrochemistry; chemical kinetics.
Courses: CH32, ED50, SC30
Prerequisites: CHB372 or CHB373
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 5 per week
■ CHB513 INSTRUMENTAL ANALYSIS 5
Quality assurance, data analysis, trace analysis, methods reliability,
accuracy, precision, sensitivity, selectivity, limit of
detection, comparative studies; atomic spectroscopy, theory
and instrumentation; mass spectrometry, introductory theory
and instrumentation; liquid chromatography, ion chromatography,
practices and principles.
Courses: CH32, SC30
Prerequisites: CHB313, CHB372, CHB373, CHB453
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 5 per week
■ CHB523 CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY 5
Principles of heat transfer and their applications in heat exchange
and evaporative operations; distillation; principles of
mass transfer in gas absorption psychrometry, drying and
membrane operations. Physical property (thermodynamic and
transport) estimation techniques for gases, liquids and solids.
Introduction to process simulation and analysis with the aid
of Aspen software.
Courses: CH32, SC30 Prerequisites: CHB423, CHB473
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 5 per week
■ CHB533 INORGANIC CHEMISTRY 5
Chemistry of selected metalloids; organometallic chemistry;
inorganic reaction mechanisms; special interest metals; development
of principles of group theory; symmetry operations
and inorganic IR spectra; UV-visible spectra; bioinorganic
chemistry of special molecules; lasers and inorganic chemistry.
Courses: CH32, SC30 Prerequisites: CHB333
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 5 per week
■ CHB553 ORGANIC CHEMISTRY 5
Principles of retrosynthesis, concepts of functional group
equivalence and interconversions, disconnections, synthons,
strategy and tactics, selectivity and control, protecting groups.
Synthesis of the major classes of organic compounds, including
difunctional compounds, by carbon-carbon bond formation.
Selectivity in oxidation and reduction. Introduction to
the use of computers in synthesis design. Sources of raw materials
for organic chemicals preparation of synthesis (‘syn’)
gas, chemical conversions using syn gas, reactions of alkenes
and aromatic feedstocks to produce common chemicals, preparation
and chemistry of polymers, the industrial preparation
of selected pharmaceuticals.
Courses: CH32, SC30 Prerequisites: CHB453
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 5 per week
■ CHB573 PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY 5
Kinetics; colloid chemistry; phase equilibria; quantum mechanics;
statistical mechanics.
Courses: CH32, SC30 Prerequisites: CHB473
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 5 per week
■ CHB603 PROJECT
A variety of chemical problems reflecting teaching, research
and consultancy interest of the staff.
Courses: CH32, SC30 Prerequisites: One of CHB573,
CHB553 or CHB533 and CHB513 or CHB523
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 5 per week
■ CHB613 INSTRUMENTAL ANALYSIS 6
Instrumental analysis including the principles and practices
of XRF, thermal analysis, electrometric methods including
voltametry, amperometry; data acquisition, methods of automated
analysis, flow-based analysers, robotics, computer networks,
laboratory information management systems, chemi-
cal databases; chemometrics, optimisation techniques, multiple
regressions, advanced quality assurance, inter-laboratory
comparisons; computer interfacing, microprocessor controlled
instruments, A-D/D-A converters, I/O methods including
polling, interrupt techniques, direct memory access.
Courses: CH32, SC30 Prerequisites: CHB513
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 5 per week
■ CHB623 CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY 6
Sources of chemicals and energy. Chemical reaction engineering,
equilibrium thermodynamics and applications in chemical
process analysis. Process synthesis. Process engineering
costing, profitability analysis, network analysis, optimisation.
Process simulation and case study analysis using Aspen software.
Courses: CH32, SC30 Prerequisites: CHB523
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 5 per week
■ CHB643 APPLIED SPECTROSCOPY
Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; vibrational
spectroscopy; remote spectroscopy; Uv/vis and fluorescence
spectroscopies.
Courses: CH32, ED50, SC30 Prerequisites: CHB372 or
CHB373 and CHB352 or CHB353
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 5 per week
■ CHB653 APPLIED BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
The emerging importance of secondary plant metabolites in
medicine; the main biosynthetic pathways leading to secondary
plant metabolites; mechanistic aspects of enzyme reactions
and the importance of phosphate; a detailed study of a
selection from the main biosynthetic pathways; structural determination
and synthesis of selected secondary metabolites.
Courses: CH32, SC30 Prerequisites: CHB553
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 5 per week
■ CHB663 ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY
Toxicology; water quality, its assessment; modelling reactions
in water bodies; air quality; criteria pollutants and health effects;
indoor pollutants; monitoring; dispersion of pollutants;
control techniques.
Courses: CH32, ED50, SC30
Prerequisites: CHB372 or CHB373
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 5 per week
■ CHB693 MATERIALS CHEMISTRY
Properties of materials; metals and alloys; metallic corrosion;
cements, ceramics and glasses; polymers and composites.
Courses: CH32, ED50, SC30 Prerequisites: CHB473
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 5 per week
■ CHB700 RESEARCH PROJECT
All students undertaking Honours are required to select and
undertake, in consultation with a supervisor, a substantial
project in an appropriate area. Each project is assessed on the
basis of an extensive written report and an oral presentation.
Courses: SC60 Credit Points: 48
■ CHB701 COMPLEMENTARY STUDIES FOR
CHEMISTS
Studies may include a selection from: participation in research
seminars; oral communication skills; written communication
skills; formal coursework in occupational health and safety,
scientific and industrial ethics, development of research management
strategies; and coursework material from other accredited
courses as directed by the course coordinator and Head
of School.
Courses: SC60 Credit Points: 8
■ CHB740 ELECTIVE STUDIES 1
Advanced studies on a topic of particular relevance to the student’s
research project; topics studied are normally in specific
areas of physical chemistry, analytical chemistry, inorganic
chemistry or organic chemistry. A supervised reading program
is involved and the unit may also include a formal lecture program.
Relevant material from other accredited courses may be
included as part or all of the requirement for this unit as directed
by the Course Coordinator and Head of School.
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