280371

Process Engineering Operations

The application of engineering principles to operations used in the food or chemical processing industries. Operations such as evaporation, drying , membrane technologies, refrigeration and process cooling systems will be used as examples of how the underlying principles of thermodynamics, conservation and transport of heat, mass and momentum can be used to select, design and optimise industrial processes.

Course code

Qualifications are made up of courses. Some universities call these papers. Each course is numbered using six digits.

280371

Level

The fourth number of the course code shows the level of the course. For example, in course 219206, the fourth number is a 2, so it is a 200-level course (usually studied in the second year of full-time study).

300-level

Credits

Each course is worth a number of credits. You combine courses (credits) to meet the total number of credits needed for your qualification.

15

Subject

Process Engineering

Course planning information

Course notes

To pass course students must achieve a minimum average of 50% in lab reports. To pass course students must achieve a minimum 40% in all tests and in the final exam.

Prerequisite courses

Complete first

You need to complete the above course or courses before moving onto this one.

Restrictions

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You cannot enrol in this course if you have passed (or are enrolled in) any of the course(s) above as these courses have similar content or content at a higher level.

General progression requirements

You must complete at least 45 credits from 200-level before enrolling in 300-level courses.

Learning outcomes

What you will learn. Knowledge, skills and attitudes you’ll be able to show as a result of successfully finishing this course.

  • 1 Apply the principles of thermodynamics, the conservation and transfer of energy and mass and fluid flow to the quantitative evaluation and design of food and chemical processing unit operations.
  • 2 Justify the selection of appropriate equipment for a unit operation in an industrial processing context.
  • 3 Apply engineering principles to the collection, validation, analysis and interpretation of pilot-plant experimental data.

Learning outcomes can change before the start of the semester you are studying the course in.

Assessments

Assessment Learning outcomes assessed Weighting
Written Assignment 3 30%
Test 1 2 20%
Exam (centrally scheduled) 1 2 50%

Assessment weightings can change up to the start of the semester the course is delivered in.

You may need to take more assessments depending on where, how, and when you choose to take this course.

Explanation of assessment types

Computer programmes
Computer animation and screening, design, programming, models and other computer work.
Creative compositions
Animations, films, models, textiles, websites, and other compositions.
Exam College or GRS-based (not centrally scheduled)
An exam scheduled by a college or the Graduate Research School (GRS). The exam could be online, oral, field, practical skills, written exams or another format.
Exam (centrally scheduled)
An exam scheduled by Assessment Services (centrally) – you’ll usually be told when and where the exam is through the student portal.
Oral or performance or presentation
Debates, demonstrations, exhibitions, interviews, oral proposals, role play, speech and other performances or presentations.
Participation
You may be assessed on your participation in activities such as online fora, laboratories, debates, tutorials, exercises, seminars, and so on.
Portfolio
Creative, learning, online, narrative, photographic, written, and other portfolios.
Practical or placement
Field trips, field work, placements, seminars, workshops, voluntary work, and other activities.
Simulation
Technology-based or experience-based simulations.
Test
Laboratory, online, multi-choice, short answer, spoken, and other tests – arranged by the school.
Written assignment
Essays, group or individual projects, proposals, reports, reviews, writing exercises, and other written assignments.

Textbooks needed

Textbooks can change. We recommend you wait until at least seven weeks before the semester starts to buy your textbooks.

Highly recommended

TRANSPORT PROCESSES AND SEPARATION PROCESS PRINCIPLES

Author
GEANKOPLIS, C.J., HERSEL, A.A, LEPEK, D.H.
ISBN
0134181026 978013418
Edition
5TH ED, 2018
Publisher
PRENTICE HALL, BOSTON

Recommended

INTRODUCTION TO THERMAL AND FLUIDS ENGINEERING

Author
KAMINSKI, D.A. AND JENSEN, M.K
Edition
(2005)
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc

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