CH 480: Design I
CLARKSON UNIVERSITY
Fall 2009
Last updated May 5, 2009
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Instructor:
Professor William R. Wilcox
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Text: Chemical
Engineering Design: Principles, Practice and Economics of Plant and Process
Design by Gavin
Towler and Ray Sinnott
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Syllabus
· Recommendations for case-studies final report
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MATLAB: tutorial on
symbolic methods for calculus, graphing, and solution of equationsl
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MATLAB: tutorials
on analysis and plotting of data
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MATLAB: tutorial on
numerical solution of equations
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Relationships
between mathematical, MATLAB and Excel
expressions
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Excel tutorials and exercises
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How to enter Greek letters, symbols, superscripts and
subscripts into Excel
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Common conversion
factors for units
Lab assignments
will be done in groups of 2 assigned by the instructor, with different pairing
each week. Turn in one solution with each person's name clearly
indicated. (Then check the grades on Blackboard when they are posted to
make certain they were recorded for each person. It's very easy to miss
one name when recording.)
The case study
must be done alone, although you are free to discuss with other students. Copying of any part of a case study will be
easily recognized and severely punished.
Your final written case study report will be one basis of your
individual final oral exam.
Process simulation software will be used
extensively. Clarkson students will be
able to install and use it on their own computers. This will first require installation of VPN
on the computer. You can do this now --
see http://www.clarkson.edu/oit/campus_computing/network_vpn_installation.php
. At the moment, it may not work on
Vista 64-bit or Mackintosh operating systems.
If you encounter a problem, contact the helpdesk@clarkson.edu to stimulate them
to fix it before the fall semester begins. Provide them with the details of
the problem, including a screen shot of any message generated.
Blackboard: All information will be posted on
Blackboard; assignments, supplemental documents, grades, solutions, etc.
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