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Chemical Engineering for Non-Chemical Engineers

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Course Code: 16-0208-ONL26  /  Online  /  Feb 23 - 25, 2026 More Info    REGISTER NOW

21 Professional Development Hours

After participating in this course, you will be able to:

  • Gain a thorough understanding of essential chemical engineering concepts
  • Acquire knowledge of the fundamental principles governing heat and mass transfer
  • Learn about the flow of single and multi-phase fluids, enhancing your capability to work in industries that rely on fluid transport and processing
  • Understand various measurement techniques for fluids, which is essential for quality control and process optimization in numerous industries
  • Gain proficiency in various separation and extraction processes, widening your employment prospects in industries like petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, and food processing
  • Learn about the relevance of petrochemical processes and refineries, the pharmaceutical industry, the semiconductor manufacturing industry, and the food industry

Description
All industrial processes and projects in the fields of energy and environment, as well as all forms of resource development such as mining and extraction of rare minerals, food processing, pharmaceutical process development, semiconductor industry, and chemical and petrochemical processes, utilize chemical engineering concepts and operations. That is why almost every engineer, manager, and leader working in any of the fields mentioned above requires knowledge of the basics and fundamentals of chemical engineering processes and operations. This course aims to address this need by providing an introduction to chemical engineering for non-chemical engineers and leaders who are involved in production and manufacturing industries.

This 3-day course will provide a review and introduction to subjects and applications of fluid mechanics, mass and energy balance, heat transfer, and mass transfer. Additionally, a review of chemical engineering unit operations, safety, and process control will be presented.

Who Should Attend
New Graduates of Non-Chemical Engineering Disciplines • Anyone who is interested in Understanding Fundamentals and Instances of Separation Processes with or Without Chemical Reactions • Managers and Leaders of Professional Teams that Include Chemical Engineers • Non-Chemical Engineers who, as part of Their Career Growth, Require This Training

Course Syllabus

Introduction to Profession

  • What chemical engineers do?
  • Where chemical engineers work?
  • Critical thinking and creativity

Material and Energy Balance

  • Conservation of mass
  • Conservation of energy
  • Application of conservation laws to physical process
  • Application of conservation laws to process chemical reactions

Introduction to Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics

  • Concepts of energy and work
  • The first and second laws of thermodynamics, introduction to entropy
  • Thermodynamic equilibrium (i.e. thermal, chemical, and phase equilibrium)
  • Phase transition and phase equilibrium
  • Water-steam system (steam table)

Day 2

Fluid Mechanics

  • Hydrostatics
  • Laminar and turbulent flow and Moody Chart
  • Flow and pressure drop through pipes
  • Single-phase and multi-phase flow
  • Flow measurement concepts and instruments
  • Fluid flow through porous media
  • Introduction to Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids

Heat Transfer

  • Introduction of heat transfer
  • Basic heat transfer mechanisms
  • Heat exchangers: introduction, types, and design basis
  • Introduction to Furnaces and Once-Through Steam Generators

Reactor Design and Reaction Kinetics

  • Chemical reactions: activation energy, reaction orders
  • Measuring the rate of reactions
  • Review of various types of reactors
  • Basic concepts of reactor design (batch versus continuous reactors)

Day 3

Unit Operations

  • Drying processes
  • Distillation operation
  • Gas processing operations (i.e. absorption and stripping)
  • Liquid-liquid extraction
  • crystallization

Chemical Engineering Project Economics

  • Economic feasibility of a project
  • Cost estimation for chemical engineering projects
  • Time value of the money and the impact of interest rate and inflationary trends
  • Break-even analysis
  • Capital depreciation
  • Income tax
  • Economics criteria for comparing projects

Process Control

  • Introduction to Process control narrative development
  • Dynamic behavior of linear, first-, and second-order systems

Process Safety

Sustainability

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SCHEDULED OFFERINGS

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Online, 2/23/2026

COURSE CREDIT

Almost all of EPIC's courses offer :

  • Continuing Education Units (CEUs) and
  • Professional Development Hours (PDHs)

These course credits will help attendees earn training requirements for their associations or provincial governing bodies.

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