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Chemical engineering design data, information and advice


·         Professional advancement (history of chemical engineering, licensure, ethics, graduate school and fellowships, technical report writing, learning styles)

·         General references and search engines (statistics, physical constants, conversion factors, chemical abstracts, patents, and Clarkson's on-line journals, books and encyclopedias)

·         Properties of chemicals (periodic table, thermodynamic properties, specific chemicals, references in the Clarkson University library)

·         Equipment types, descriptions, design, selection

·         Materials Selection

·         Reactors

·         Distillation, absorption, stripping columns

·         Heat Exchangers

·         Pressure changes, pumps, compressors and piping systems

·         Heuristics, vessels, liquid-liquid extraction, instrumentation & control, bioprocessing

·         Separation techniques; distillation and beyond  (basic principles of separation processes, reviews, centrifugal methods, use of supercritical fluids, bioseparations, filtration, crystallization, chromatography, membrane methods, purification)

·         Thermodynamic models

·         Distillation and related methods

·         Aspen Plus tutorials, information and examples

·         HYSYS & UniSim procedures and advice

·         Cost estimating (estimating prices of raw materials and utilities, sales prices of products, costs of equipment, NPV, DCFRR, DPP)

·         Safety and environmental protection (sustainability, green chemistry, safety in design and operation of chemical plants, fires and explosions, toxicity of chemicals, anti-terrorism, HAZOP analysis)

·         Steps in design case-studies using HYSYS or UniSim

·         Case-study reports

·         Relationships between mathematical, MATLAB and Excel expressions

·         Excel tutorials and exercises

·         How to enter Greek letters, symbols, superscripts and subscripts into Excel

·         MATLAB: tutorial on symbolic methods for calculus, graphing, and solution of equationsl

·         MATLAB: tutorials on analysis and plotting of data

·         MATLAB: tutorial on numerical solution of equations

·         Common conversion factors for units

·         PowerPoint advice

·         Mathematica demonstrations (must first download and install free Mathematica player)

·         Design of Experiments and Analysis of Data


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Disclaimer: The material on these pages is intended for instructional purposes by Clarkson University students only.  Neither Clarkson University nor Professor Wilcox are responsible for problems caused by using this information.

 

Last updated July 9, 2009.  Comments and corrections should be sent to Professor William R. Wilcox

 

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