Introduction to Chemical and Biological Engineering

Topics

• What is Chemical and Biological Engineering?
  • Opportunities and challenges in CBE
  • CBE course sequence at CSU
  • Opportunities outside of the classroom
• Engineering problem solving
  • Steps in solving ‘real world’ engineering problems
  • Steps in solving well-defined engineering process problems, including textbook problems
• Teamwork
  • Essential ingredients of a successful team
  • Stages of team development
• Dimensions
  • Dimensions and derived units
  • Why are unit dimensions useful?
• Units
  • What is a pound?
  • What is a gmol?… a kgmol?… a lbmol?
  • Converting between units
• Error and uncertainty
  • Why consider uncertainty?
  • Proper specification of a quantity
  • Estimating uncertainties
  • Stating uncertainties
  • Propagation of uncertainties
  • Software
• Process variables
  • Terminology
  • Converting between Mole Fraction and Mass Fraction
  • The stream table
• Process Fundamentals
  • What is a process in CBE?
  • Some useful process terminology
  • Graphically representing processes
  • Block diagram
  • Process flow diagrams (PFDs)
  • Piping and instrumentation diagram (P&ID)
  • Other useful diagrams
• Material Balances
  • Terminology
  • Overview of solving material balance problems
  • The control volume
  • Where can we apply material (and energy) balances?
  • Material balance equations
  • Material balances equations for multiple species
  • Material balances: No species formation or consumption
• Reacting systems
  • Material balances: With species formation or consumption
• Reaction kinetics
  • Reaction rates
  • Elementary reactions
  • Stoichiometric reactions
• Reactor design
  • Types of chemical reactors
  • Analysis and design
• Bioreactors
  • What is a bioreactor
  • Bioreactor basics
  • Important biological issues
  • Biological catalysts: enzymes
  • Quantifying reactions rates for enzymes
  • Reactor types
  • Considerations in bioreactor design
• Fluids and fluid flow
  • Fluids
  • Velocity
  • Pressure
• Mass transfer
  • Mass transfer: What is it?
  • Concentration profiles
  • Diffusion
  • Mass Convection
  • Combined diffusion and convection
  • Resistances
• Energy balances
  • Rationale
  • Rate of Work
  • Special cases
• Heat transfer
  • Conduction
  • Describing conduction heat transfer quantitatively
  • Convection
  • Describing convective heat transfer quantitatively
  • Radiation
  • Combined mechanisms or modes
• Heat exchangers
  • What is a heat exchanger?
  • Types of heat exchangers
  • Heat exchangers in nature
  • Heat exchanger analyses
• Mechanical energy balances
  • The Bernoulli equation
  • The mechanical energy equation
• Process safety
• Engineering ethics
  • Codes of ethics
  • Internationalizing codes of ethics
• Sustainability
  • Sustainable development goals
  • Factors affecting sustainability
  • How do we measure sustainability?
  • Principles of Green Engineering
  • The role of chemical and biological engineers in sustainability
• Engineering in a global context
  • The engineer of the future
  • What is global engineering?
  • The skillset of global engineers
  • Factors affecting global engineering