Course Learning Goals

• To provide hands-on operating experience with typical chemical engineering equipment, and experience with heat transfer and fluid flow.
• To provide experience with planning and implementation of experiments.
• To review and practice chemical engineering principles.
• To provide an understanding of and practice with the use of statistics and data interpretation with real experimental data.
• To work in a simulated industrial environment, with emphases on teamwork, open-ended problem solving, completed project style report writing, and effective oral communication.

General Format of the Course

Four physical experimental devices and one virtual experiments will be examined in this course: Physical Experiments (1) Stirred Tank Reactor; (2) Tubular Flow Reactor; (3) Distillation Tower; (4) Triple Effect Evaporator ; Virtual Experiment: (1) Triple Effect Evaporator.  Numerical solutions or evaluations with simulation software are also required.  Each student group will run the physical and virtual experiments according to the Course Schedule.  Group Leaders must schedule a meeting with the instructor before their groups run experiments (Note: deadline is on day prior to running the experiment).  At this meeting, Group Leaders turn in written materials and present an informal oral presentation on the group plans for running the experiment and analyzing results.  Calculations and preliminary results and conclusions are turned in for grading one week after each experiment is run.  A completed Group Lab Notebook is submitted for grading with the group leader for the next experiment.  Written and oral reports and the poster report are due according to the Course Schedule.

Requirements of CHEN 4130

Consult the Course Schedule for the due dates of the required reports and the Group Leader Information for details of those requirements.