ENCH -- Engineering, Chemical

ENCH 422 Transport Processes I (3) Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion/recitation per week. Prerequisites: ENCH 215 and ENCH 250. Pre- or corequisites: MATH 241 and MATH 246. Macroscopic approach to analysis of heat, mass and momentum transfer. Integral balances, mechanical energy equation, Bernoulli's equation. Interphase transport. Application to design of process equipment. Radiant heat transfer.

ENCH 424 Transport Processes II (3) Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion/recitation per week. Prerequisites: ENCH 300 and ENCH 422. Microscopic approach to analysis of heat, mass and momentum transfer Analogies, laws for conduction and convection. Design applications via differential balances and general balance equations. Boundary layer analysis and turbulent flow.

ENCH 426 Transport Processes III (3) Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion/recitation per week. Prerequisites: ENCH 300 and ENCH 424. Separation by staged operations. Rate dependent separation processes. Design applications in distillation, gas absorption, liquid extraction, drying, adsorption and ion exchange.

ENCH 437 Chemical Engineering Laboratory (3) Six hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisites: ENCH 424; and ENCH 440; and ENCH 442. Corequisite: ENCH 426. Application of chemical engineering process and unit operation principles in small scale semi-commercial equipment. Data from experimental observations are used to evaluate performance and efficiency of operations. Emphasis on correct presentation of results in report form.

ENCH 440 Chemical Engineering Kinetics (3) Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion/recitation per week. Prerequisites: ENCH 300; and ENCH 422; and CHEM 481. Fundamentals of chemical reaction kinetics and their application to the design and operation of chemical reactors. Reaction rate theory, homogeneous reactions and catalysis electrochemical reactions. Catalytic reactor design.

ENCH 442 Chemical Engineering Systems Analysis (3) Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion/recitation per week. Prerequisites: ENCH 300; and ENCH 422. Corequisite: ENCH 440. Dynamic response applied to process systems. Goals and modes of control, Laplace transformations, analysis and synthesis of simple control systems, closed loop response, dynamic testing.

ENCH 444 Process Engineering Economics and Design I (3) Prerequisites: ENCH 424; and ENCH 440. Corequisite: ENCH 426. Principles of chemical engineering economics and process design. Emphasis on equipment types, equipment design principles, capital cost estimation, operating costs, and profitability.

ENCH 446 Process Engineering Economics and Design II (3) Prerequisite: ENCH 444. Application of chemical engineering principles for the design of chemical processing equipment. Typical problems in the design of chemical plants.

ENCH 450 Chemical Process Development (3) Prerequisite: ENCH 424. Chemical process industries from the the standpoint of technology, raw materials, products and processing equipment. Operations of major chemical processes and industries combined with quantitative analysis of process requirements and yields.

ENCH 452 Advanced Chemical Engineering Analysis (3) Prerequisite: MATH 246. Corequisite: ENCH 426. Application of digital and analog computers to chemical engineering problems. Numerical methods, programming, differential equations, curve fitting, amplifiers and analog circuits.

ENCH 453 Applied Mathematics in Chemical Engineering (3) Prerequisite: MATH 246. Corequisite: ENCH 426. Mathematical techniques applied to the analysis and solution of chemical engineering problems. Use of differentiation, integration, differential equations, partial differential equations and integral transforms. Application of infinite series, numerical and statistical methods.

ENCH 454 Chemical Process Analysis and Optimization (3) Prerequisites: ENCH 440 and MATH 246. Corequisite: ENCH 426. Applications of mathematical models to the analysis and optimization of chemical processes. Models based on transport, chemical kinetics and other chemical engineering principles will be employed. Emphasis on evaluation of process alternatives.

ENCH 468 Research (1-3) Prerequisite: permission of both department and instructor. Repeatable to 6 credits. Investigation of a research project under the direction of a faculty member. Comprehensive reports are required.

ENCH 482 Biochemical Engineering (3) Prerequisite: ENCH 440. Introduction to biochemical and microbiological applications to commercial and engineering processes, including industrial fermentation, enzymology, ultrafiltration, food and pharmaceutical processing and resulting waste treatment. Enzyme kinetics, cell growth, energetics and mass transfer.

ENCH 485 Biochemical Engineering Laboratory (3) Six hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisite: ENCH 482. Techniques of measuring pertinent parameters in fermentation reactors, quantification of production variables for primary and secondary metabolites such as enzymes and antibiotics, the insolubilization of enzymes for reactors, and the demonstration of separation techniques such as ultrafiltration and affinity chromatography.

ENCH 490 Introduction to Polymer Science (3) Prerequisites: ENCH 424 and ENCH 440. The elements of the chemistry, physics, processing methods, and engineering applications of polymers.

ENCH 494 Polymer Technology Laboratory (3) One hour of lecture and four hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisite: ENCH 490. Polymer processing and characterization of polymer products. Extrusion, injection molding, blown film production with mechanical, thermal and rheological characterization.

ENCH 496 Processing of Polymer Materials (3) Prerequisite: ENCH 424. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ENCH 496 or ENMA 496. A comprehensive analysis of the operations carried out on polymeric materials to increase their utility. Conversion operations such as molding, extrusion, blending, film forming, and calendering. Development of engineering skills required to practice in the high polymer industry.

ENCH 609 Graduate Seminar (1)

ENCH 610 Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics (3) Advanced application of the general thermodynamic methods to chemical engineering problems. First and second law consequences; estimation and correlation of thermodynamic properties; phase and chemical reaction equilibria.

ENCH 620 Methods of Engineering Analysis (3) Application of selected mathematical techniques to the analysis and solution of engineering problems; included are the applications of matrices, vectors, tensors, differential equations, integral transforms, and probability methods to such problems as unsteady heat transfer, transient phenomena in mass transfer operations, stagewise processes, chemical reactors, process control, and nuclear reactor physics.

ENCH 630 Transport Phenomena (3) Heat, mass and momentum transfer theory from the viewpoint of the basic transport equations. Steady and unsteady state; laminar and turbulent flow; boundary layer theory, mechanics of turbulent transport; with specific application to complex chemical engineering situations.

ENCH 640 Advanced Chemical Reaction Kinetics (3) The theory and application of chemical reaction kinetics to reactor design. Reaction rate theory; homogeneous batch and flow reactors; fundamentals of catalysis; design of heterogeneous flow reactors.

ENCH 648 Special Problems in Chemical Engineering (1-16)

ENCH 720 Process Analysis and Design (3) Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Construction of process models; steady-state and dynamic simulation; process synthesis (synthesis of heat-exchanger networks, separation systems, chemical reaction systems); bioprocess analysis and design.

ENCH 735 Chemical Process Dynamics and Control (3) Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Dynamic response of continuous and sampled-data processes; feedback and feedforward control; model uncertainty; Internal Model Control structure; robustness with respect to modeling error; control of multi- input multi-output processes; decentralized control; Relative Gain Array; Process Resiliency.

ENCH 736 Model Based Process Control (3) Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Step and impulse response models; state space models; model predictive control formulation; on-line optimization; state feedback; Kalman filter; disturbance estimation; constrained processes; nonlinear process models.

ENCH 737 Chemical Process Optimization (3) Techniques of modern optimization theory as applied to chemical engineering problems. Optimization of single and multivariable systems with and without constraints. Application of partial optimization techniques to complex chemical engineering processes. Spring semester.

ENCH 739 Modern Computing Techniques in Process Engineering (3) Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs. Presentation of recent developments in computing techniques in the context of chemical engineering problems. Symbolic computation and artificial intelligence, neural networks, data filtering and statistical treatment of data.

ENCH 751 Turbulent and Multiphase Transport Phenomena (3) Prerequisites: ENCH 620 and ENCH 630. Basic equations and statistical theories for transport of heat, mass, and momentum in turbulent fluids with applications to processing equipment. Fundamental equations of multiphase flow for dilute systems with applications to particles, drops and bubbles. Current approaches for analysis of concentrated suspensions including deterministic models and population balance approaches.

ENCH 753 Aerosols and Particulate Science (3) Prerequisites: {ENCH 620 and ENCH 630} or permission of instructor. Fundamentals of aerosol science - electrical and aerodynamic properties, coagulation and diffusion. Current techniques for experimental measurements with emphasis on particle characterization, environmental sampling, and data inversion procedures. Recent developments in computation for aerosol reactors and population balances.

ENCH 761 Enzyme Engineering (3) Prerequisite: ENCH 640. Enzyme science and kinetics; principles of enzyme insolublization and denaturation with application to design, operation and modeling of enzyme reactors. The relationship between mass transfer and apparent kinetics in enzyme systems; and techniques of separation and purification of enzymes.

ENCH 762 Advanced Biochemical Engineering (3) Prerequisite: ENCH 482 or permission of both department and instructor. Advanced topics to include use of a digital computer for mathematical modeling of the dynamics of biological systems; separation techniques for heat sensitive biologically active materials; and transport phenomena in biological systems.

ENCH 781 Polymer Reaction Engineering (3) Prerequisite: ENCH 640 or permission of instructor. Advanced topics in polymerization kinetics, reactor design and analysis; addition and step-growth polymerization; homogeneous and heterogeneous polymerization; photopolymerization; reactor dynamics; optimal operation and control of industrial polymerization reactors.

ENCH 786 Polymer Processing and Applications (3) Prerequisite: ENCH 490 or permission of both department and instructor. Application of theoretical knowledge of polymers to industrial processes. An analysis of polymerization, stabilization, electrical, rheological, thermal, mechanical and optical properties and their influence on processing conditions and end use applications.

ENCH 799 Master's Thesis Research (1-6)

ENCH 818 Advanced Topics in Thermodynamics (3) Prerequisite: CHEM 604. Second semester.

ENCH 828 Advanced Topics in Chemical Reaction Systems (3) Prerequisite: ENCH 640. First semester. Offered in alternate years.

ENCH 838 Advanced Topics in Transfer Theory (3) Prerequisite: ENCH 720. First semester. Offered in alternate years.

ENCH 858 Advanced Topics in Process Control (3) Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs. Advanced topics in chemical process control -- robust control, model based process control, process sensing, fault detection, expert systems, neural networks, and integration of design and control.

ENCH 859 Advanced Topics in Biochemical Systems (3) Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs. Presentation of techniques for characterizing and manipulating non- linear biochemical reaction networks. Methods are applied to current biotechnological systems, some include: recombinant bacteria; plant, insect and mammalian cells; and transformed cell lines.

ENCH 868 Advanced Topics of Process Design (3) Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs. Advanced topics in chemical process analysis and design; construction of process models, steady-state and dynamic simulation, process synthesis, heat-exchanger networks, separation systems, chemical reaction systems, and bioprocesses.

ENCH 869 Advanced Computer-Aided Process Engineering (3) Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs. Advanced topics and projects involving modern computing techniques in chemical and process engineering. Topics include but not restricted to advanced process simulation; parallel computation; symbolic, Boolean, and algebraic computation in process modelling; molecular-based modelling; connectionist systems.

ENCH 899 Doctoral Dissertation Research (1-8)