Mass and Energy Balances - EGR 231
https://courses.vccs.edu./courses/EGR231-MassandEnergyBalances
Effective: 2024-05-01
Course Description
Introduces the field of chemical engineering and how material and energy balances are applied to chemical processes, and physical and thermodynamic properties of multi-component systems.
Lecture 3 hours. Total 3 hours per week.
3 credits
The course outline below was developed as part of a statewide standardization process.
General Course Purpose
This course instructs future chemical engineers in integrating knowledge of chemistry, math, and physics to address real-world problems, tackling complex issues by understanding the physical context and formulating the necessary equations.
Course Prerequisites/Corequisites
Prerequisites: MTH 264, EGR 121, CHM 112 (grade of C or higher in these courses)
Course Objectives
- Civic Engagement
- Relate chemical engineering concepts to the development and manufacturing of products highly valued by society
- Critical Thinking
- Break complex processes into component parts
- Establish relationships between known and unknown variables
- Professional Readiness
- Integrate knowledge of chemistry, math, and physics to address real-world chemical engineering problems
- Quantitative Literacy
- Analyze material and energy balances in chemical processes
- Gather essential chemical process data and solve balances using computational methods
Major Topics to be Included
- Introduction to Chemical Engineering
- Discuss and appreciate the variety and complexity of problems that chemical, biochemical, and process engineers are asked to solve
- Introduction to Chemical Engineering Calculations
- Perform basic engineering calculations including converting quantities from one set of units to another
- Processes and Process Variables
- Define, calculate and estimate properties of process materials including fluid density, flow rate, chemical composition (mass and mole fractions, concentrations), fluid pressure, and temperature
- Fundamentals of Material Balances
- Perform material balance calculations by drawing and labeling process flowcharts from verbal process descriptions and completing degree-of-freedom analyses
- Write and solve material and energy balance equations for single-unit and multiple-unit processes, processes with recycle and bypass, and reactive processes
- Single-Phase Systems
- Apply the principles of physical chemistry and thermodynamics to perform pressure-volume-temperature calculations for ideal and non-ideal gasses
- Multi-phase Systems
- Perform vapor-liquid equilibrium calculations for systems containing one condensable component and for ideal multi-component solutions
- Energy and Energy Balances
- Use physical properties of chemical compounds e.g., melting temperature, vapor pressure, heat capacity together with materials and energy balances to solve chemical process problems
- Balances on Non-reactive Systems
- Write and solve material and energy balance equations for non-reactive processes
- Balances on Reactive Systems
- Write and solve material and energy balance equations for reactive processes