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This year’s content list 2017W


Module 1: Process Basics – drinking water purification, wastewater treatment, pulp mills

  • Input-Output Diagrams

  • Conservation of Mass

  • Mass flow

  • Material balances

  • Block Flow Diagrams

  • Mixer

  • Degrees of Freedom (DOF)

  • Process economics

  • Excel

  • Unit conversion


Module 2: Reactors - pharmaceuticals

  • Reactor

  • Batch, Semi-batch, continuous

  • Transient and steady state

  • Process Flow Diagrams

  • Converting moles to mass

  • Reactive Balances

  • Atomic Balances

  • Molecular species balances

  • Extent of reaction

  • % excess

  • Fractional conversion

  • Yield and selectivity


Module 3: Separation I

  • Splitter

  • Recycle

  • Purge

  • Process and Instrumentation Diagram (P&ID)

  • Centrifugation and cyclones

  • Dimensional Homogeneity

  • Density and specific gravity

  • Solid-Liquid Equilibrium

  • Temperature systems (K, C, F, R)

  • Trend/Curve fitting

  • Solid-Vapour Equilibrium

  • Liquid-Liquid Equilibrium



Module 4: Separation II (VLE)


  • Separators (Distillation columns, LL extractions {note:contradicts above})

  • Pressure measurement

  • Gauge vs. Abs pressure

  • Ideal gas law

  • Difference between vapour and gas

  • Gibb’s phase rule

  • Vapour-Liquid Equilibrium (VLE)

  • Phase diagrams

  • Non-ideal gas laws

  • Standard cubic feet, and standard flow rates

  • Raoult’s law

  • Henry’s Law

  • Antoine equation and vapour pressure

  • Humidity

  • Dew point

  • Steam Tables

  • Interpolation


Module 5: Non-reactive Energy Balances

  • Energy Balance DOFs

  • First Law (E= Q+W) and when terms can be neglected

  • Closed, open, adiabatic, isothermal, isobaric, isochoric systems

  • Closed systems and internal energy

  • Open systems and enthalpy

  • Classification of Energy (Q, W, Ek, Ep, Eu)

  • Conservation of energy

  • Reference states and state properties

  • State functions

  • E change from pressure change

  • Cv + Cp, heat capacities

  • Psychrometric charts and spray drying

  • Heat of mixing


Module 6: Reactive Energy Balances

  • Heat of reaction/combustion

  • Hess’ law for heats of reaction

  • Heating values (HHV, LHV)

  • Heat of reaction method for solving energy balances

  • Heat of Vapourization/Melting


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