ChE 3063 Equilibrium Thermodynamics
Required course for ChE program
Catalog Description: Application of equilibrium thermodynamics to chemical engineering systems with emphasis on non-ideal behavior in chemical reactions, fluid flow, and vapor-liquid equilibrium.
Co-requisites: none
Prerequisites: ES 3053 (Thermodynamics), ChE 2003 (Stoichiometry).
Prerequisites by Topic: Laws of thermodynamics, mass and energy balances, Excel and Visual Basic programming
Recent Textbook: J.M. Smith, H.C. Van Ness and M.M. Abbott, “Introduction to Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics”, McGraw-Hill, 7th Edition, 2001, ISBN 0-07-310445-2.
Other Required Material: None
Course Objectives: Develop skills in manipulating and calculating the properties of pure substances; develop skills in manipulating and calculating the properties of mixtures; derive and apply the Clapeyron equation to pure substances using an analytical equation of state; perform phase equilibrium calculations using both Excel and HYSYS software; perform reaction equilibrium calculations using Excel software.
Major Topics Covered in the Course : Pure component properties; pure component phase equilibria; properties of ideal and nonideal mixtures; multicomponent phase equilibria; reaction equilibria; tests
Class/Laboratory Schedule: Lecture meets for three 50-minute sessions each week for 14 weeks
Professional Component Contribution: This course applies mathematics, chemistry and physics to engineering applications of chemical thermodynamics. Computer skills are extended in this course to numerical solution of nonlinear equations. A minimum of one design problem is assigned in this course. Throughout the course, safety and ethics are briefly emphasized.
Relationship to Program Outcomes:
- Outcome a: The course requires use of differential and integral calculus to solve engineering problems. Numerical methods for solving nonlinear equations and systems of nonlinear equations are taught. Problems in this course build on a background of chemistry, physics and thermodynamics.
- Outcome b: Some homework problems require analysis and interpretation of experimental data.
- Outcome c: Students execute a coupled flash strategy [single stage separators] satisfying a specific set of constraints based on desired compositional products.
- Outcome d: The design problem is done as a team. All students in the course are chemical engineering majors.
- Outcome e: Homework problems are assigned each week so that students will develop the necessary problem solving skills.
- Outcome f: There is only minor emphasis in this course on ethical and safety concerns with respect to the handing and design of chemical systems; Ethical and safety concerns are addressed in greater detail in ChE3084
- Outcome g: In addition to the communication skills required to function on a team and successfully write an exam, students are required to write a proper memorandum summarizing their design problem results.
- Outcome h: Economically important chemical systems are offered as lecture discussion examples and in homework problems.
- Outcome i: It is emphasized to students what they are not learning as well as what they are not learning; in other words, the students gain an appreciation for what might be encountered in follow-up and more advanced (graduate) courses.
- Outcome j: The state of the art in thermodynamic prediction and correlation is emphasized, beyond what is offered in the text(s).
- Outcome k: Students are required to use computers to solve homework problems throughout the course, particularly in Excel language and Excel combined with Visual Basic. Hand calculations are strongly discouraged by the instructor.
Prepared by: Kraemer Luks (December 15, 2005) |
ChE Tulsa University 
