ChE Tulsa University

 
           

ChE 4013 Chemical Engineering Lab II
Required course for ChE program

Catalog Description:  Experimental verification of mass transfer, chemical reaction rate principles, and process control. Emphasis on safety. Oral and written reports.

Prerequisites:  ChE 4063.

Corequisites:  ChE 4113.

Prerequisites by Topic:  Mass transfer, reactor design, equilibrium thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer

Recent Textbook:  None

Other Required Material:  None

Course Objectives:  Students can follow equipment operating procedures to run an experiment; learn to connect a process flow diagram with the equipment; can determine experimental error, can analyze and manipulate real world data, and can perform statistical analysis; get an experience at teamwork; learn basic concepts of laboratory safety; get a reinforcement of the theoretical principles learned in other chemical engineering classes; get some experience at doing experimental design; and present their findings in written and oral formats.

Major Topics Covered in the Course:  Lab experiments cover mass transfer, reaction engineering, equilibrium thermodynamics, and process control; lectures cover laboratory safety, report writing, and error analysis.

Class/Laboratory Schedule:  Lecture meets for one 50-minute session each week for 14 weeks.  Lab meets for one session that is up to 5 hours long each week for 14 weeks. 

Professional Component Contribution:  This course is experiments in chemical engineering science. 

Relationship to Program Outcomes: 

  • Outcome a:  Experiments in this course build on a background of chemical engineering thermodynamics, mass transfer, and process controls.
  • Outcome b:  Students are required to conduct experiments and to analyze and interpret the resulting data.
  • Outcome d:  The experiments and some reports are done in teams. 
  • Outcome e:  Students develop problem-solving skills as they run their experiments and analyze their data.
  • Outcome f:  Professional behavior such arriving on time, wearing appropriate dress, and meeting deadlines is required.  Ethical behavior is required in the course.  Safety is emphasized in the course.
  • Outcome g:  In addition to the communication skills required to function on a team, students are required to write one team report and present one team oral presentation if in a team of three.  The students are individually responsible for four other written reports and one other oral report. 
  • Outcome i:  Analysis requires the use of Perry’s Chemical Engineering Handbook, alerting the students that not all information they will need is in a textbook.
  • Outcome k:  Students are required to use computers to solve problems throughout the course.  Excel and PlantScape (the Honeywell software) are required.  Students also practice experimental techniques and data analysis. 

Prepared by:  Laura P. Ford (May 27, 2005)

Written and oral communications objective added on Dec. 19, 2005 by Laura P. Ford.

May 3, 2006 – Laura P. Ford

The course was significantly revised this semester.  The number of experiments was reduced from six to four to allow the students more time to understand them.  Grade weighting was changed to give students (rather than teams) responsibility for most of the reports.  Error analysis and design of experiments were covered in lectures.