CEE 6310Process Principles in Environmental Engineering syllabus

Syllabus > CEE 6310Process Principles in Environmental Engineering syllabus

Georgia Institute Of Technology CEE 6310 Catalog Data: Principles that can be used in the analysis and modeling of environmental engineering processes, including material and energy balances, mass transfer, and reaction engineering. Who should take it: First-year graduate students in Environmental Engineering (EnvE). Educational Objectives: ...[Show More]

Georgia Institute Of Technology
CEE 6310
Catalog Data: Principles that can be used in the analysis and modeling of environmental

engineering processes, including material and energy balances, mass transfer, and reaction

engineering.

Who should take it: First-year graduate students in Environmental Engineering (EnvE).

Educational Objectives: This course is designed to introduce first-year EnvE graduate students

to the principles of material balances, mass transfer, and reaction kinetics and reaction

engineering. The principles covered are applied to the analysis and modeling of simple

environmental engineering systems.

Expected Outcomes: Students will be able to write and solve material balance equations for

simple environmental engineering systems. Comprehend the principles of mass transfer and

apply them to the development of governing equations for systems of steady-state molecular

mass transfer, unsteady-state molecular mass transfer, convective mass transfer, and interphase

mass transfer. Given possible reaction mechanisms, construct rate expressions and determine rate

constants from experimental data. Write and solve design equations for engineered and natural

systems that can be modeled as ideal single isothermal reactors (batch, plug flow, perfectly

mixed flow) and multiple reactors. Use tracer experimental data to quantify nonideality

conditions in reactive systems and then analyze nonideal systems based on direct application of

tracer experimental data and models (dispersion, tanks-in-series).

Prerequisites: Undergraduate calculus, differential equations, and fluid mechanics.

Computer Usage: Spreadsheets (MS Excel); Mathematica.

Course Requirements and Approximate Basis for Grading:

Midterm Exam Tuesday, October 17, 12:00-1:15 30 %

Final Exam Friday, December 8, 11:30-2:20 45 %

Homework (7 Problem Sets; last one due on December 5) 25 %