Course Weekly Lecture Plan

Week	Topic
1	Introduction-Course Overview; Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering Design: Design methodology, Organization of chemical engineering projects, Project documentation, Codes and standards, Factors of safety (design factors) Design Information and Data, Prediction of physical properties
2	Chemical Process Diagrams: Diagrams for Understanding Chemical Processes, The Structure and Synthesis of Process Flow Diagrams Tracing Chemicals through the Process Flow Diagram, Basic simulation of chemical processes by using ChemCAD (Computer-aided flow-sheeting), Flow Diagrams of Batch Processes
3	General Purpose Elements in Chemical Process Plants and Standardization, Rule of Thumbs, Fluid Transport Systems
4	Fluid Transport Systems, Simulation of Pumping Systems by using ChemCAD, Mechanical Design of Reactors, Tanks, and Columns under Internal Pressure
5	Mechanical Design of Reactors, Tanks, and Columns Subject to External Pressure, Mechanical Design of Vertical Columns Subject to Combined Loads
6	Design of Stirred Tanks, Heat Transfer in Stirred Tanks
7	Design of Heat Transfer Equipment, ChemCAD Simulation of shell and tube heat exchangers
8	Design of Condensers (Direct-contact heat exchangers)
9	Design of Crystallizer and Evaporators,
10	Design of Liquid-Solid Separation Equipment ( Filtration, Cylone)
11	Design of Dryers (Solids drying), ChemCAD Simulation: Crystallizer, Hydrocyclone, Filter, Dryer and Cyclone
12	Simulation of a process system containing crystallizer, hydrocyclone, filter, and solid dryer (ChemCAD), Heat Integration
13	Design of Distillation Column, ChemCAD Simulation of Distillation Column
14	Project Interim Reports, Design Project Oral Presentations

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