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Students will learn how to evaluate It also covers instrumentation in CME 399 - Internship II CME 450 - Process Design CME 498 - Capstone Design fractionation; Catalytic cracking;
whether the information provided chemical processes. Credit hours: 1.5 Project I (Capstone) Thermal cracking, Hydro-cracking,
is sufficient to solve steady- state CME 331 - Chemical Reaction Prerequisite: CME 398 Credit Hours: 3 Steam reforming; Isomerization,
material balances frequently Engineering Prerequisite: CME 331 Credit Hours: 1 alkylation, Absorption; etc. It also
encountered in process design. Co-requisite: CME 400 Prerequisite: Senior Level + CME 301 covers selected petrochemical
Students will be exposed to both Credit Hours: 3 This course is the second of 2 Process Design involves the + CME 321 + CME 331 + CME 305 industries; Design of processes.
mathematical software as well as Prerequisite: CHE 330 + MTT 205 internships and it focuses on getting synthesis, integration, and design This course incorporates the
process modeling software useful Fundamentals of chemical reaction the students involved in the day-to- of chemical engineering processes. integration of material from other CME 462 - Chemical Process
day business events in a relevant,
for solving process engineering engineering. Rate laws, kinetics, and This is a three-hour course which is chemical engineering courses with Industries
problems and when each should be mechanisms of homogeneous and modern and automated organization. intended to introduce students to applications to the design of plants Credit Hours: 3
utilized. heterogeneous reactions. Analysis The student will follow a well-planned the fundamentals and applications of and processes representative of Prerequisite: CHE 305 + CME 331
course of action during the period
CME 212 - Fluid Mechanics for of rate data, multiple reactions, heat of training. The plan will be devised process design. The course presents the chemical, biological, and related This course introduces students to
systematic process-integration tools
industries bounded by design
Chemical Engineers effects, catalytic reactors, safety jointly by the site-supervisor and the processes that chemical
Design of industrial reactors. college-supervisor. The course will for the synthesis, development, constraints, namely economic,
Credit Hours: 3 be a breakthrough in exposing the and screening of potential process environmental, manufacturer and engineers use in chemical industries.
Prerequisite: CME 210 CME 341 - Heat Transfer students to the professional work flowsheets. It reinforces equipment technical and scientific. Specific focus will be made on
This course covers: Fluid statics; Credit Hours: 3 culture and conduct of business design of common process CME 499 - Capstone Design processes used in the following
Newtonian and non-Newtonian Co-requisite: CME 212 complexities. equipment. The principles of process Project II industries: Petrochemical, Water/
sewage treatment, Fertilizer, LNG,
fluids; Bernoulli equation; Mechanical This course aims at providing economics including evaluation Soap and detergent, Cement, Food
of fixed and operating costs,
energy equation for viscous fluids CME 400 - Separation Processes Credit Hour: 2 processing, Glass, Electromechanical,
: Dimensional analysis: Flow of students with essential concepts of Credit Hours: 3 depreciation, and profitability analysis Pre-requisite: CME 498 Plastics, Perfumes, and
Heat Transfer. Topics covered include:
fluids; Flow meters, Pumps and Prerequisite: CME 301 + CME 305 will be covered. A continuation of CME 498.
compressors; Two-phase flow, Fluid Steady heat conduction, forced CME 455 - Industrial Software Pharmaceutical. Field trips to local
facilities will be made to provide
and natural convection, principles
flow in porous media, Packed and of engineering thermal radiation, This course covers the fundamentals for Chemical Engineers students with a better understanding
Fluidized beds; Filtration; Agitation of mass transfer operations which Major Elective of how the processes are integrated
and mixing; Free and hindered boiling and condensation. The course result in separations required in Credit Hours: 2 into various industries.
covers design of heat exchanger
settling. Chemical Engineering. Examples of Prerequisite: CME 300 + CME 331 +
equipment including double pipe CME 400 (Co-req)
CME 320 - Chemical Engineering (hairpins), and shell and tube heat separation processes covered are: Gas Processing and CME 463 - Corrosion Engineering
Distillation, absorption/stripping,
Laboratory I exchangers with emphasis on liquid-liquid extraction. The material The objective of this course is to Petrochemicals
standards and specified constraints. provide students with a guided Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 1 covers aspects of the design of the experience on the construction and CME 460 - Natural Gas Prerequisite: CHE 330
Prerequisite: CME 212 + CME 341 CME 398 - Internship I industrial equipment required for convergence of chemical processes Processing This course introduces
Co-requisite: CME 301 Credit hours: 1.5 the particular separation process in an industry-utilized process electrochemical principles and their
This is the first of a two laboratory Prerequisite: Completion of 60 cr. covered. Design constraints will be simulator like Aspen Plus and Aspen Credit Hours: 3 application to corrosion of materials
courses sequence covering hrs emphasized. Hysys. Students will understand Prerequisite: CME 301 and corrosion control. Topics
the application of principles of This course is the first of 2 CME 430 - Chemical Engineering how to access variables, define and This course introduces different covered include thermodynamics
chemical and process engineering: internships and it focuses on getting Laboratory II converge design specifications and techniques for processing natural and kinetics of corrosion, corrosion
Thermodynamics; Fluid Mechanics, the students involved in the day-to- converge tear/recycle streams. Topics gas. Topics include properties mechanisms, corrosion inhibition
Heat transfer and Mass Transfer; day business events in a relevant, Credit Hours: 1 covered include an introduction to and behavior of natural gas and electrochemical protection of
Experimental planning, data modern and automated organization. Prerequisite: CME 321 + CME 331 the commercial process simulation using equations of state, hydrate metals. Case studies from oil and gas
acquisition and safety considerations The student will follow a well-planned Co-requisite: CME 400 software and more specifically to formation, field treatments including production and processing industries
are emphasized throughout the course of action during the period This is the second of a two laboratory Aspen Plus, Process Simulation dehydration, sour gas sweetening, are also included.
course. courses sequence covering the Software Graphical User Interface, sulfur recovery, and liquefaction.
of training. The plan will be devised Physical Properties Environment CME 464 - Chemical Process
CME 321 - Process Dynamics and jointly by the site-supervisor and application of principles of chemical Set Up, Simulation Environment Design of main processing Safety
Control college-supervisor. The course will and process Engineering: Mass and Flowsheet, Unit Operations equipment will be studied.
be a breakthrough in exposing the transfer; Separation processes; CME 461 - Petroleum Refining Credit Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 3 students to the professional work Reaction Engineering; Experimental and the Models, Basic Reporting, Processes Prerequisite: CME 301
Worked Case Studies. The Worked
Co-requisite: CME 331 culture and conduct of business planning, data acquisition and safety Case Studies along with the projects Applications of engineering principles
This course covers principles of complexities. considerations are emphasized and assignments the students will Credit Hours: 3 to process safety and hazards
automatic control for chemical throughout. undertake will emphasize problem Prerequisite: CHE 305 + CME 341 + analysis, mitigation, and prevention,
processes: Unsteady state modeling; definition, design conceptualization, CME 331 with special emphasis on the
Laplace open loop and closed loop modeling, simulation and process This course covers crude oil and its chemical process industries; includes
systems; Stability; Feedback/feed integration. properties and processes involved in source modeling for leakage rates,
forward, and cascade controllers. refineries: Atmospheric and vacuum dispersion, analysis, relief valve sizing,
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