CHEME 4320

Chemical Engineering Laboratory

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025. The Catalog/Courses of Study 2025-2026 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

Laboratory experiments in fluid dynamics, heat transfer, mass transfer, separations, process control, and other unit operations fundamental to large-scale chemical processing. Data collection, analysis, and interpretation. Technical report writing. Process design and scale-up based on pilot-plant data.

When Offered Fall.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: CHEME 3230, CHEME 3240, CHEME 3320, CHEME 3720 and CHEME 3900.

• Design experiments and choose operating conditions to acquire data for solving a stated technical problem.
• Operate pilot-plant equipment and collect data accurately and safely.
• Use rigorous statistical methods, e.g. linear regression analysis and propagation of errors, to identify sources of uncertainty in measured variables and in parameters derived from curve-fits.
• Prepare graphs, data tables, and process flowcharts for concise, unambiguous presentation of results.
• Use results of small-scale, pilot-plant experiments for preliminary design of large-scale process equipment.
• Write laboratory reports that use graphs, data tables, process flowcharts, and equations to describe the methodology and present the results of data collection, data analysis, and process design.
• Work in four-person teams throughout.

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