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BBE 4501 Process and Product Design I (2
credits)
| Catalog Description: |
Develop, formulate and complete an open-ended, engineering
process design project at the conceptual level.
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| Prerequisites: |
3013, BBE 4013, upper division BP major or instructor’s
consent.
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| Class/Laboratory Schedule: |
Lectures or lab sessions (twice per week).
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| Location: |
TBA
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| Instructors: |
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| Text: |
Text: None
References:
Seider, W.D., J.D. Seader, and D.R.Lewin, Product and Process Design
Principles: Synthesis, Analysis, and Evaluation, 2nd ed, Wiley, 2004.
Cussler, E.L. and G.D. Moggridge, Chemical Product Design, Cambridge
University Press, 2001.
Peters, M.S. and Timmerhaus, K.D., Plant Design and Economics for Chemical
Engineers, TP155.5.p4, 2003.
Perry, R.H. and C.H. Chilton. Chemical Engineers’ Handbook. 6th
ed. McGraw Hill, New York, 1984.
All textbooks from the engineering principles courses (ChEn4001, CE3502,
ME 3321, BAE 3313, BAE 4013)
Doran, P.M. 1997. Bioprocess Engineering Principles. Academic Press:
San Diego.
Shuler, M.L. and F. Kargi. 1992. Bioprocess Engineering: Basic Concepts.
Prentice Hall: Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
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| Grading: |
Student Performance Assessment:
Homework - 35%; One 50 minute midterm examination -
15%; Participation and contribution to team design project
(individual) - 15%; final design report - 20%; final
oral presentation –15%.
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Topics
- An introduction to process design
- Process design development (design-project procedure,
information from the literature, flow diagrams, the preliminary
design, comparison of different processes, equipment design
and specifications, material and construction)
- General design consideration (plant location, layout,
operation and control, utilities, structural design, storage,
material handling, waste disposal, health and safety, patents)
- Cost accounting and capital cost estimation (assess
the financial condition of a company from its annual report,
estimate the purchase and installation costs of representative
type of process equipment, estimate the capital investment
for the process)
- Annual costs, earnings and profitability analysis (estimate
annual costs, compute approximate profitability measures
such as return on investment (ROI), payback period (PBP),
venture profit (VP), annualized cost (CA), cash flow and
depreciation, and use them to project the net present value
(NPV) and investor’s rate of return (IRR))
- An introduction to product design
- Needs (customer needs, consumer products, converting
needs to specifications, revising product specifications)
- Ideas (human sources of ideas, chemical sources of ideas,
sorting and screening the ideas)
- Selection (selection using thermodynamics, selection
using kinetics, less objective criteria, risk in product
selection)
- Production manufacture (intellectual property, supplying
missing information, final specifications)
- Economic concerns (process vs. product design, process
economics, economic for products)
- Interaction of process design and process control (combining
statistical quality control, data analysis, and training
personnel)
- Simulation – learning and using WinGems
- Completion of the conceptual design of a process (synthesis
and development of the flowsheet using a hierarchical set of
decisions of increasing detail based on economic evaluation.)
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