Basic principles and techniques used for calculations of material balances in chemical engineering processes. Material balance for reactive and nonreactive processes. Simple chemical engineering processes and complex systems including recycle. The first law of thermodynamics, concepts of energy, enthalpy, heat effects, conservation of energy, mechanical work. Standard heats of reaction, formation and combustion and heat effects of industrial reactions. Combined mass and energy balances.
Pre-Requisites: PHYS102 And CHEM102*
Co-Requisites: CHEM 102
The basic principles and techniques used for calculations of material balances in chemical engineering processes are introduced. Material balance for reactive and nonreactive processes is discussed. Simple chemical engineering processes and complex systems including recycle are covered. Study of behavior of ideal and real gases. Computer simulation will be used for material balance problems.
Pre-Requisites: CHEM102 And PHYS102
The first law of thermodynamics is studied in detail. Material covered includes concepts of energy, enthalpy, heat effects, conservation of energy, mechanical work, chemical energy liberation and equations of state, behavior of gases and liquids and standard heats of reaction, formation and combustion and heat effects of industrial reactions. Thermodynamics properties of materials and methods of their estimation are presented. Study of combined mass and energy balances and applications to problems through use of enthalpy concentration charts and humidity charts. Computer simulation will be used for combined material and energy balance problems.
Pre-Requisites: CHE201 And MATH201 And (ICS103 Or ICS102 Or ICS101 Or ICS104)
The first and second laws of thermodynamics are studied in detail. Material covered includes concepts of energy, enthalpy, heat effects, conservation of energy, interaction between heat transfer, mechanical work, and chemical energy liberation, equations of state, behavior of gases and liquids, standard heats of reaction, formation and combustion and entropy. Study of combined mass and energy balances.
Pre-Requisites: CHE201 And MATH201 And (ICS101 Or ICS102 Or ICS103)
The course introduces principles governing fluid flow for Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids in laminar and turbulent flows. Mass, energy, momentum balances, dimensional analysis and simulation are used as tools to analyze flows: in pipes, in packed beds, around particles and surfaces, fluidized beds and flow meters. The course also covers: hydrostatics, exact solution of Navier-Stokes equations, constitutive equations for stresses, viscous effects and boundary layer flows.
Pre-Requisites: (MATH202* Or MATH208*) And (CHE200 Or CHE201 Or PETE101 Or PETE201)
Programming chemical engineering calculations and problem solving, Data acquisition and processing, computer assisted design and simulation of chemical engineering problems using appropriate commercial software packages.
Pre-Requisites: CHE200 And ICS104
Modes of heat transfer. Differential equations of energy transport. Steady and transient heat conduction. Free and forced convection in laminar and turbulent flows. Momentum and heat transfer analogies. Boiling and condensation. Radiation heat transfer. Application to the design of process heat transfer equipment.
Pre-Requisites: (CHE212 Or CHE202) And CHE204
This course presents the theory and applications of chemical engineering thermodynamics. Topics covered include: review 1st and 2nd laws of thermodynamics, equations of state, thermodynamics of flow processes, steam power plants, thermodynamic relations, thermodynamics properties of pure fluids, vapor-liquid equilibria, phase diagrams, solution thermodynamics, thermodynamics properties of fluid mixtures, and chemical-reaction equilibria. Computer simulation to thermodynamic systems is applied in this course.
Pre-Requisites: (CHE212 Or CHE202) And (MATH202 Or MATH208)
This course covers fundamentals of mass transfer, differential equations of mass transfer, steady-state and unsteady-state molecular diffusion, convective mass transfer, interface mass transfer, mass transfer theories, mass transfer equipment, absorption and humidification operations
Pre-Requisites: CHE204 And CHE300*
Co-Requisites: CHE 300
Review vapor-liquid equilibria. Flash distillation. Column binary distillation. McCabe-Thiele and Ponchon-Savarit methods. Exact and short cut methods for multicomponent distillation. Batch distillation. Staged and packed column design. Absorption and stripping. Immiscible extraction. Computer simulation will be used to solve different type of distillation problems throughout the course.
Pre-Requisites: CHE303 And CHE304
This laboratory emphasizes concepts presented in the transport phenomena courses. A safety session is given at the commencement of the course. Safe practices are strictly adhered to throughout the course. Students carry out selected experiments in fluid mechanics, heat transfer, thermodynamics and diffusional mass transfer. Data collected are analyzed and compared to applicable theories.This laboratory emphasizes concepts presented in the transport phenomena courses. A safety session is given at the commencement of the course. Safe practices are strictly adhered to throughout the course. Students carry out selected experiments in fluid mechanics, heat transfer, thermodynamics and diffusional mass transfer. Data collected are analyzed and compared to applicable theories.
Pre-Requisites: CHE300 And ENGL214 And CHE304
Flow sheets and process calculations are described for major chemical industries now operating in Saudi Arabia or likely to be developed in the future. Examples are industrial gases, cement, aluminum, glass, fertilizers, detergents, sulfur industry, petrochemicals, petroleum refining, pulp and paper industry etc.
Processing of crude oil and the associated natural gas of the wellhead into stabilized crude oil, pipeline quality natural gas, natural gas liquids and sulfur. Gas-oil separation, crude oil desalting, gas sweetening and dehydration, recovery and fractionation of natural gas liquids, sulfur production and crude oil stabilization. Computer simulation of major oil field processes. Thermodynamics and phase equilibria of multi-component hydrocarbon mixtures. Gas compression, refrigeration and two-phase flow.
Mass and energy balances, chemical kinetics, ideal reactors, types of industrial reactors, heterogeneous catalytic reactors, and their applications. The course will familiarize industrial chemistry students with concept of design of industrial reactors. Problem solving sessions. This course cannot be taken for credit by CHE majors. This course is offered in the first term only.
Programming chemical engineering calculations and problem solving. Data acquisition and processing, computer assisted design and simulation of chemical engineering problems using appropriate commercial software packages.
Beginning of coop in summer. Description as given in CHE 351.
In this course the student will spend a period of 28 weeks of industrial employment in industry. Students are required to write a detailed formal report on their experience. Evaluation by the employer will be counted towards the grade given for this course (Registration in this course is limited to students in the College of Applied Engineering)
End of coop in summer. Description as given in CHE 351.
Applications of numerical methods to interpolation, differentiation, integration, and the solution of systems of linear, nonlinear, and differential equations in chemical engineering. Not to be taken with MATH 371 or CISE 301
Pre-Requisites: CHE303
In this course the student will spend a period of one semester of industrial employment in industry. Students are required to write a detailed formal report on their experience. Evaluation by the employer will be counted towards the grade given for this course.
Pre-Requisites: CHE309 And ENGL214
A period of 12 weeks of industrial employment in appropriate industries or firms. Students are evaluated on their performance, and are required to submit a report and offer a seminar about their experience before receiving a grade of Pass or Fail for the course.
Pre-Requisites: CHE309 And ENGL214
The intent of this course is to present the fundamental principles in modeling and control of chemical processes. The topics covered in this course include: modeling of chemical processes, Laplace transfer and state-space models, approximation of complicated models, dynamics and simulation of different systems, feedback controllers, PID tuning, design and instrumentation of closed-loop control systems, control block diagrams, frequency response analysis, Bode and Nyquist stability criteria.
Pre-Requisites: (CHE306 Or CHE304) And (CHE360 Or MATH371)
Introduction to kinetics of reactions. Techniques for experimentally determining rate laws for simple and complex chemical reactions. Design and operation of isothermal batch and flow reactors. Nonisothermal reactor design and operation. Introduction to catalysis and catalytic reactors. Computer simulation of reaction systems will be implemented.
Pre-Requisites: CHEM311 And CHE303
The aim of this course to provide insight into the alternative resources and technologies for hydrogen production and to discuss the present options of hydrogen storage and future needs.
Pre-Requisites: CHE303 Or ME204
Introducing the Process flow diagrams and plant layout, conceptual design and synthesis of process flow diagrams, understanding the process conditions, technical analysis of chemical processes and use of heuristics in design and analysis, and use of simulation in equipment design and process synthesis. Engineering economic analysis of chemical processes with particular emphasis on estimation of capital cost, estimation of cost of manufacturing, time value of money, depreciation, cash flow, profitability and financial analysis, methods for decision making among alternatives.
Pre-Requisites: CHE306 And CHE402*
Co-Requisites: CHE 402
A laboratory to complement the theoretical derivations in stagewise operations, process dynamics and control, and kinetics and reactor design. A safety session is given at the commencement of the course. Safe practices are strictly adhered to throughout the course. Two environmental engineering reaction experiments are included. Students carry out selected experiments, analyze data collected referring to applicable theories and present their findings in formal reports.
Pre-Requisites: CHE309 And CHE401* And CHE402*
This is the first of two courses for the multidisciplinary, capstone project. Multidisciplinary teams will be formed, projects will be defined, and project management discussed.
This is the second of two courses for the multidisciplinary, capstone project. Multidisciplinary teams undertake product definition, generation of conceptual designs, product development, and presentation of final products. Students integrate knowledge acquired from prior courses into multidisciplinary projects with multiple constraints and use engineering standards while further developing their communication skills and life-long learning techniques.
Pre-Requisites: CHE405* And CHE411
Co-Requisites: CHE 405
Study on several methods for the estimation of physical, thermodynamic and transport properties of fluids commonly used in industry. Study of literature sources where property information is available. Application of these properties to process design is emphasized to give the students a complete picture of the use and importance of good property estimation.
Pre-Requisites: CHE303
Binary geothermal cycles. Compressed air energy storage. Wind power systems. Hydrogen fuel cells. Solar thermal collectors. Photovoltaic power systems. Biomass thermo-chemical conversion.
Pre-Requisites: CHE303 Or ME204
Introducing the Process flow diagrams and plant layout, conceptual design and synthesis of process flow diagrams, understanding the process conditions, technical analysis of chemical processes and use of heuristics in design and analysis, and use of simulation in equipment design and process synthesis. Engineering economic analysis of chemical processes with particular emphasis on estimation of capital cost, estimation of cost of manufacturing, time value of money, depreciation, cash flow, profitability and financial analysis, methods for decision making among alternatives.
The intent of this course is to present advances separation techniques practiced in chemical and petrochemical industry. Dynamics of the distillation column involving the column internals and column diameter calculations will be covered. Emphasis will be on the unit operations of multi-component gas absorption, humidification, evaporation, adsorption and ion exchange, reverse osmosis, permeation, dialysis, electrodialysis, and pervaporation.
Pre-Requisites: CHE306
Membrane fundamentals and practical applications of membrane processes; membrane classifications, materials, properties and characterization, and preparation; transport through membranes, concentration polarization and membrane fouling, membrane permeability with special emphasis on membrane modules and process design; gas separation, pervaporation, ultrafiltration, reverse osmosis, and membrane reactors.
Pre-Requisites: CHE304
Description and applications of different heat exchangers in process industries. Design of double pipe heat exchanger (including extended surfaces). Detailed design procedures for shell and tube heat exchanger for single phase flow. Detailed design procedures for air coolers. Selection criteria for heat exchangers. Descriptive discussion of condensers, evaporators and reboilers, novel heat exchangers and other types of heat exchangers.
Pre-Requisites: CHE300 Or ME315
Basic definitions and classification of catalysts, nature and mechanism of catalytic reactions, adsorption processes, catalyst preparation and catalyst characterization. Mass and heat transport effects in catalysis. Catalyst deactivation. Design principles of heterogeneous catalytic reactors such as fixed- and fluidized-bed reactors. Industrial catalytic processes with emphasis on existing processes in Saudi Arabia.
Pre-Requisites: CHE402*
Co-Requisites: CHE 402
Fuel cell thermodynamics and electrochemistry. Charge transport in polymer and ceramic electrolytes. Gas phase transport in fuel cells (diffusion and fluid mechanics). Energy balance and heat management. Flux balance for fuel cells. Electrochemical energy storage including batteries and supercapacitors. Power management strategies for hybrid storage systems.
Pre-Requisites: CHE303 Or ME204
Descriptive treatment of key concepts on biochemistry. The kinetics of enzyme-catalyzed reactions and its applications. Kinetics of substrate utilization, transport phenomena in microbial systems. Design and analysis of biological reactors. Analysis of multiple interacting microbial populations in applications.
Pre-Requisites: CHE304 And CHE402*
Co-Requisites: CHE 402
This course introduces the selection, construction, solution, and interpretation of mathematical models applicable to the study of chemical engineering problems. Topics covered include: introduction to mathematical modeling, analytical solution of ordinary differential equations, special functions, analytical solution of partial differential equations, numerical solution of nonlinear algebraic systems, and numerical solution of systems of first order ODE’s.
Pre-Requisites: CHE300 And CHE304
The intent of this course is to emphasize the application of computer simulation and flowsheeting, optimization, and process synthesis techniques to the design and operation of chemical processes and equipment. Students will learn how to simulate various process units and processes, and what is in the black box of a simulator program. The topics covered in this course include: concepts of structure and information flow and tasks in the design and analysis of chemical processes, basic solution strategies in flowsheeting computations, computation sequence in solving set of equations, concept of flowsheet partitioning and tearing, steady-state unit operation models in simulator packages such as Aspen Plus, HYSYS and UniSim Design, selection of thermodynamics and physical property models, and heuristics for process synthesis. Each student will be assigned an individual process to simulate under steady-state conditions using available process simulators.
Pre-Requisites: CHE306
Review of feed back control, cascade control, Ratio, override, selective, feed-forward, and multivariable process control. Dynamic simulation of control systems using SIMULINK and other commercial software packages. Instrumentation, design case studies and tuning case studies.
Pre-Requisites: CHE401
Applications of engineering principles to process safety and hazards analysis, mitigation, and prevention, with special emphasis on the chemical process industries. Includes source modeling for leakage rates, dispersion analysis, relief valve sizing, fire and explosion damage analysis, hazards identification, risk analysis, accident investigations, etc.
Pre-Requisites: PHYS102
General review of refining processes of crude oil. Shortcut methods for practical design calculations. Design of atmospheric, vacuum, and pressure columns for petroleum fractionation, including auxiliary furnaces and condensers. Recent developments in heavy oil processing.
Pre-Requisites: CHE306
Process technologies used in petrochemical industries, such as thermal and catalytic cracking will be introduced. Basic, intermediate and final petrochemicals are studied. These include synthesis gas and derivatives, ethylene, propylene, butene, BTX, and their derivatives. Competing technologies will be assessed from the chemical engineering point of view.
Pre-Requisites: CHE306
Structure and physical properties of polymers. Homogeneous and heterogeneous polymerization processes. The chemical, mechanical, and engineering properties of polymers as well as polymer processing and rheology are emphasized in this course.
Pre-Requisites: ME216 Or ME205 Or ME207 Or CE204 Or CHEM458
The characteristics of the industry in terms of feed stocks and products interaction, processes and technologies, and Economics are introduced. Petroleum fractionation and general review of refining processes of crude oil are introduced. Important petrochemical products are introduced with emphasis on those produced in Saudi Arabia. The basic unit processes such as hydrotreating, cracking, reforming, dehydrogenation, oxidation etc., are introduced along with their applications in the industry. The economics and cost of production is discussed whenever relevant. The course will emphasize the basic concepts and principles of the industry and will avoid unnecessary and descriptive process details. Integration of the Petrochemical and Petroleum Refining industries will be highlighted whenever applicable.
Pre-Requisites: CHE306
This course presents recent advances in chemical process integration and synthesis. The course presents systematic and state-of-the-art techniques for understanding the global insights of mass and energy flows within a process and how these integrated insights can be used to optimize process performance. A variety of mathematical and visualization tools are presented. In particular, emphasis is given to fundamental integration and synthesis methodologies along with their applications to the process industries.
Pre-Requisites: CHE306
Sources and effects of air pollution; air quality, atmospheric reactions and scavenging processes. Meteorological setting for dispersion of air pollutants. Theory of atmospheric dispersion modeling. Air pollution control concepts, selection, evaluation and application of control devices for emission and control from chemical and petrochemical industries.
Water quality and pollution, industrial wastewater characterization, classification of wastewater processes. Modeling and design of biological waste treatment processes. Analysis of chemical and physical processes for wastewater treatment in process industries.
Study of corrosion mechanisms and techniques used in prevention and control. Electrochemistry and its application to corrosion. Material selection for different environments.
Pre-Requisites: CHEM311
Description of methods of water analysis and treatment. Study of properties of water and aqueous solutions. Detailed discussion and analysis of design, maintenance, energy requirements and economics of the major processes of desalination such as distillation, reverse osmosis, and electrodialysis.
Pre-Requisites: CHE304 And CHE303
Natural resources and conservation; resources under stress; effects of climate change on water resources; effects of climate change on agriculture; effects of climate change on forest resources; effects of climate change on air quality; climate change coping strategies, adaptation and mitigation; disaster and vulnerability; tools for reducing vulnerability; model based predictions of the effects of climate change.
This course is designed to acquaint students with the theoretical reasoning and experimental methods used in evaluating both crystalline and non-crystalline materials covering metallic, polymeric and ceramic materials. The principles involved in their selection based on mechanical properties, resistance to degradation, and wear, and special properties are illustrated in the practical examples from process industries.
Pre-Requisites: ME207
Statistics on global energy use, supply and demand of energy, energy generation from fossil and non-fossil fuels. Energy transportation and storage, energy from low-calorific value fuels, energy conservation and economics, and energy management.
Pre-Requisites: CHE303
Polymer Compounding & Additives for Polymers. Polymer Blends & Composites. Polymer Material Selection for specified applications. Polymer Products Processing Techniques. Application of Polymer Products. Polymers in Building & Construction. Petroleum Industry. Pipe & Cable Industry. Polymers in Automobile & Aerospace Sector. Fiber, Textile, Paint & Adhesive Technology. Polymer Composites Degradation. Polymer Composites Recycling. Additives.
Pre-Requisites: ME205 Or ME207 Or ME216 Or CHEM458 Or CE303 Or CE204
This course is designed to provide the students about the technology of the general management of the radioactive waste generated during the operation of nuclear power plant and nuclear fuel cycle facility including the treatment and disposal of the wastes. Background information on the sources of the gaseous, liquid and solid radioactive waste, and process and treatment facilities, solidification and volume reduction technology, packaging and transportation, storage methods of the wastes and spent nuclear fuel, design, safety and construction of the waste repositories, migration of the radionuclide at the subsurface, environmental monitoring and protection, repository safety assessment, decontamination and decommissioning, and the management of spent nuclear fuel will be covered
Pre-Requisites: MATH102 And PHYS102
The practical aspects of operations of nuclear power plants. Light-water reactors and their modes of operation, operator training, materials degradation management, component maintenance, and radiation protection
Pre-Requisites: (ME448 Or CHE448) And PHYS423
Selected topics from the broad area of chemical engineering. The specific contents of the course is published one semester in advance. Prerequisite: Departmental Approval
This course is designed to acquaint students with the theoretical reasoning and experimental methods used in evaluating both crystalline and non-crystalline materials covering metallic, polymeric and ceramic materials. The principles involved in their selection based on mechanical properties, resistance to degradation, and wear, and special properties are illustrated in the practical examples from process industries.
Selected topics from the broad area of chemical engineering. The specific contents of the course is published one semester in advance. Prerequisite: Departmental Approval
Development of general engineering skills and judgment needed in the solution of open-ended problems from a technical-economic viewpoint are the major goals of this course. The design of a project from conception to implementation including preliminary feasibility study, preparation of process, flow diagram, process design, pre-construction cost estimate, equipment sizing (design), selection of materials of construction, and analysis of project. Applications will be in areas such as petroleum, petrochemicals, emerging chemical industries and water desalination. Design topics will be assigned to teams of students.
Selection of a research topic, development of research topic, writing a successful proposal, manage and carrying out research tasks, setting up bench scale setup or prototype for lab work or software for modeling based research, communicating the research findings, writing effective reports. Prerequisite: Departmental Approval
Selected topics from the broad area of chemical engineering. The specific contents of the course is published one semester in advance.
Selected topics from the broad area of chemical engineering. The specific contents of the course is published one semester in advance.