1. Course number and name
CHME 452L. Chemical Process Simulation
2. Credits and contact hours
1 credit hours = =15 contact hours per semester
3. Instructor’s or course coordinator’s name
4. Text book, title, author, and year
This course will use content from the texts required of the pre-and co-requisite courses, as well as texts from numerous foundation courses of the curriculum.
a. other supplemental materials
none
5. Specific course information
a. catalog description: Construction and convergence of chemical processes in a process simulator. Students will understand how to access variables, define and converge design specifications and converge tear/recycle streams.
b. prerequisites: CHME 352L co-requisites: none
c. required, elective, or selected elective (as per Table 5-1): required
6. Specific goals for the course
a. The student will…
- understand how to input from the Aspen Plus® Graphical User Interface (GUI)
- how to specify unit operations in Aspen Plus®
- be able to perform a sensitivity analysis and an optimization
- understand how to apply a design specification in Aspen Plus®
- understand how to use Calculator Blocks such as Fortran or Excel
- be able to specify a catalytic reactor with LH kinetics
- be able to optimize a RADFRAC distillation column on an economic basis
- be able to converge complex multicomponent RADFRAC distillations
- be able to use the economics analyzer package in conjunction with a simulation
b. Criterion 3 Student Outcomes specifically addressed by this course are found in a mapping of outcomes against all CHME courses in the curriculum.
7. Brief list of topics to be covered
- Input from the Aspen Plus® Graphical User Interface (GUI)
- Specify unit operations in Aspen Plus®
- Perform a sensitivity analysis and an optimization
- Apply a design specification in Aspen Plus®
- Use Calculator Blocks as Fortran or Excel
- Specify a catalytic reactor with LH kinetics
- Optimize a RADFRAC distillation column on an economic basis
- Converge complex multicomponent RADFRAC distillations
- Use the economics analyzer package in conjunction with a simulation
Common Syllabus Addendum
The NMSU Department of Chemical Engineering maintains a syllabus addendum containing course requirements common to all courses with the CH E prefix online. This document is accessible from the URL: http://chme.nmsu.edu/academics/syllabi/chme-common-syllabus-addendum/