Instructor: Dr. Jim Newell, Associate Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering

332 Rowan Hall

256-5316

Text: Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes, Third Edition

Richard M. Felder and Ronald W. Rousseau

John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1999.

Office Hours: MTR 2:30 - 4:00

These are times when students can be certain that I will be in my office.

However, students are welcome (and encouraged) to come or call at other times.

If I am in my office and not on the phone or with another student, I will make time for you. At minimum, we will arrange a time
to meet that will accommodate both of our schedules.

Objectives: 1. Introduce the fundamentals of the energy balances and their role in chemical processes

2. Expand the understanding of the engineering approach to open-ended problems

3. Develop the capacity to employ engineering judgment to assess the validity of answers.

4. Use modern computer tools to solve process problems

5. Continue to develop the understanding of the importance of safety and environmental issues

Responsibilities: To succeed in this class, you should read the relevant material before coming to class, make a reasonable effort to do the assigned homework, hand in what you accomplish, and ask questions on points that you do not understand. I will lecture on points in the book and on supplemental topics, attempt to answer all serious questions, make myself available to anyone needing extra help, administer fair but demanding exams, and grade and return assignments in a reasonable time. All exams will be graded by the next class period.

Grading: 2 1-hour exams 40%
                Project Report 1 - Flowsheet 5%
                Project Report 2 - Mass Balances 10%
                Project Report 3 - Energy Balances 15%
                Final Exam 30%

Policies: 1. Homework will be collected and checked. Team homework assignment will be collected and evaluated by a three tier system (+, -, o). The plus represents a solid effort, the minus a partial or sporadic effort, and a o indicates little or no effort. No student can receive an "A" in the course whose team has more than one o or more than 2 assignments that have received anything other than +.

2. Regular attendance is expected. You are responsible for all assignments and material covered in class whether you are there or not.

3. Collaboration on homework assignments is encouraged; however, ALL EXAMS MUST BE DONE INDEPENDENTLY. Academic misconduct will result in a failing grade for the class.

4. Make-up exams will not be given without documentation of illness or emergency unless arrangements are made in advance.

5. Class begins promptly at 8:30 A.M. and will end at promptly 9:45. Should the class run later than 12:20 three times during the semester (except for answering questions), I will bring doughnuts for the entire class during the next lecture.

1/20 Introduction, Syllabus Review, Basic Principles Chap 1-6

Team Selection

1/25 Reactive Balances with Recycle and Purge

1/27 First Law of Thermo, Kinetic and Potential Energy 7.1 - 7.3

2/1 Energy Balances + Thermodynamic Tables 7.4 - 7.5

Semester Project Assigned

2/3 Mechanical Energy Balance + Bernoulli Equation 7.6 - 7.8

2/8 Balances on Non-Reactive Processes 8.1

2/10 Changes in Pressure and Changes in Temperature 8.2 - 8.3

2/15 In-Class Problem Solving Exercise

Thursday, February 17^th - Test #1 (Chaps 1-6. Plus Sections 7.1 - 8.3)

2/22 Test Summary + Begin Phase Change Operations 8.4

Report #1 - Flowsheet Due

2/24 Phase Change Operations 8.4

2/29 Mixing and Solution 8.5

3/2 In-Class Problem Solving Exercise

3/7 Heats of Reaction and Hess' Law 9.1-9.2

3/9 Heats of Formation & Combustion, Start reactions 9.3-9.5

Report #2 - Mass Balances Due

3/14 No Class - Spring Break

3/16 No Class - Spring Break

3/21 Energy Balances on Reactive Processes 9.5

3/23 Fuels and Combustion 9.6

3/28 In Class Problem Solving Exercise

Thursday, March 30^th - Test #2 (Chaps. 8 - 9)

4/4 Test Summary - Begin Computer Aided Calculations 10.1

4/6 HYSYS

4/11 HYSYS

4/13 Balances on Transient Processes - 11.1

4/18 Transient Materials Balances 11.2

4/20 Transient Energy Balances 11.3

4/25 In-Class Problem Solving Exercise

4/27 Overflow from Above

Report #3 - Energy Balances Due

5/2 Review for Final Exam

Final Exam - Tuesday, May 9^th, 8:00 A.M. (Note - I don't pick the times)

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One Page Biography

Dr. Newell was born in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania (a suburb of Pittsburgh). He received a B.S. in Chemical and Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1988, his M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Penn State in 1990, and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Clemson University in 1994. His dissertation focused on the conversion of PBO to carbon fiber, and he received the American Carbon Society’s Mrozowski award for best student paper presentation in 1993. After completing his doctorate, he stayed on at Clemson for one year as a Visiting Assistant Professor before accepting a tenure-track position at the University of North Dakota in 1995. He moved to Rowan University as an Associate Professor in 1998.

Dr. Newell has been published in Chemical Engineering Education, High-Performance Polymers, Carbon, The International Journal of Engineering Education and The Journal of Applied Polymer Science and has co-authored a textbook chapter on the spinning of carbon fiber precursors. His work has been presented at several international conferences in Spain and the United States. In 1997, he was named as the Dow Outstanding New Faculty Member by the North Midwest Section of The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). His current research activities include examinations of structure-property relationships in high-performance fibers, statistical modeling of compressive and tensile failure using maximum-likelihood theory, and development of enhanced fiber-resin and carbon-carbon composites. Dr. Newell is a member of the American Carbon Society, The American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and ASEE, where he serves as a director for the Chemical Engineering Division.

Dr. Newell is an avid baseball fan (the Pirates will win again someday), and reader (anything but westerns or romance novels). He enjoys spending time with his wife, Heidi, and their two cats, Jasmine and Dakota. Heidi completed her Ph.D. in Educational Administration at the University of North Dakota and spent a year as the Assessment/Accrediation consultant for the Chemical Engineering Department at UND as well as a Project Director for the Bureau of Educational Services and Applied Research. She is currently employed as the Assessment Consultant for the College of Engineering at Rowan. Their first child (Jessica) was born on January 17, 2000.