[Summary of the lecture]This course covers the fundamentals of chemical engineering. For students at the other graduate majors, this course provides opportunity to learn about frontier researches in the fields of chemical engineering.
[Aim of the lecture]The concept of chemical engineering is essential for the chemical industry, and nowadays applied to various fields such as environment, energy, biomaterials and medical devices. This course introduces the concept of mass and energy balances, transport phenomena, fluid dynamics, and thermal engineering.
At the end of this course, students will be able to
1) Understand mass and heat balances and solve basic problems related to mass and heat balances.
2) Understand transport phenomena of mass, heat and momentum and solve basic problems related to transport phenomena.
3) Understand the basis of fluid dynamics and thermal engineering and solve basic problems related to fluid dynamics and thermal engineering.
Chemical engineering, Mass balances, Energy balances, Transport phenomena, Fluid dynamics, Thermal Engineering
✔ Specialist skills | Intercultural skills | Communication skills | Critical thinking skills | ✔ Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
In every classes, students are given exercise problems related to what is taught on that day.
Course schedule | Required learning | |
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Class 1 | Fundamentals of chemical engineering: Mass and energy balances | Understand and derive mass and heat balances. |
Class 2 | Fundamentals of chemical engineering: Transport phenomena | Explain analogy of transport phenomena of mass, heat and momentum. |
Class 3 | Fundamentals of fluid dynamics: Equation of continuity, viscosity, Newton's law of viscosity, Reynolds number | Understand viscosity and explain Newton's low of viscosity. Understand Reynolds number and determine laminar or turbulent flow. |
Class 4 | Fundamentals of fluid dynamics: Laminar flow in tube, flow in the particle bed, Bernoulli's principle | Explain Hagen-Poiseuille equation and Bernoulli's principle. |
Class 5 | Exercise of fluid dynamics | Solve basic problems related to fluid dynamics. |
Class 6 | Fundamentals of thermal engineering: Heat transfer, Fourier's law | Understand the fundamental modes of heat transfer, and explain Fourier's low. |
Class 7 | Fundamentals of thermal engineering: Convection, radiation, heat exchanger | Understand convection and radiation of heat, and explain heat exchanger. |
Class 8 | Exercise of thermal engineering | Solve basic problems related to thermal engineering. |
Edited by The Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan. "Fundamental and Practice of Chemical Engineering for Engineers". Agne-shofu-sha. ISBN-13: 978-4900508569. (Japanese)
None required.
Students will be assessed on their understanding of mass and heat balances, transport phenomena, fluid dynamics and thermal engineering based on exercise problems in each class (50%) and in the 5th and 8th classes (50%).
No prerequisites.
Takeo Yamaguchi: yamag[at]res.titech.ac.jp
Takanori Tamaki: tamaki.t.aa[at]m.titech.ac.jp
Contact by e-mail in advance to schedule an appointment.