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Overview

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

• Gain a good understanding of chemical engineering concepts, foundations of heat and mass transfer processes, the flow of single and multi-phase fluids and their measurement techniques, various separation and extraction process that are used in a wide range of industries, assessment of projects and selection of the most suitable ones based on engineering and economics principles. Above mentioned processes are widely used in petrochemical processes and refineries, the pharmaceutical industry, the semiconductor manufacturing industry, and the food industry, to name a few.

Description
This course provides a reliable basis and understanding for all non-chemical engineers involved in energy and environment, food processing, mining and extraction of rare metals, and all industries where any form of the separation process is needed.

Additionally, this course provides a good understanding of chemical engineering processes for managers and non-engineers who work with chemical engineers as part of their teams.

Course Outline

• Introduction to the profession
• Material and energy balance
• Chemical engineering thermodynamics
• Fluid mechanics
• Heat and mass transfer
• Reactor design and reaction kinetics
• Unit operations
• Chemical engineering project economics
• Process control
• Process safety
• Sustainability

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.

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Syllabus

Day 1

Introduction to Profession

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

 Material and Energy Balance

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

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)
• Properties of ideal and real fluids
• Phase transition and phase equilibrium
• Water-steam system (steam table)
• Introduction to thermodynamics cycles, heat engines and refrigeration cycles

Day 2

Fluid Mechanics

• Hydrostatics
• Applications of Bernoulli’s Equation
• 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 and Mass Transfer

• Introduction to the concept of heat and mass transfer
• Fick’s Law
• Basic heat and mass transfer mechanisms
• Heat exchangers: introduction, types, and design basis
• Introduction to design of furnaces and design of 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

• 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, the impact of interest rate and inflationary trends
• Depreciation
• Income tax
• Break-even analysis
• Economics criteria for comparing projects

Process Control

• Process control narrative development
• Dynamic behavior of linear, first-, and second-order systems
• Control strategies; design of feedback, feedforward, and other control structures
• Dynamics and stability of controlled systems

Process Safety

Sustainability

Instructor

Koorosh Asghari, Ph.D., MBA, P.Eng.

Koorosh is an accomplished university teacher and researcher with over 22 years of combined experience developing and delivering projects and courses in academia and industry settings.

An Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Regina, Canada (2000-2009), with experience in teaching various courses and developing leading-edge research programs collaboratively and collegially. He prepared and delivered courses on Engineering Management, Engineering Economy, Reservoir Engineering, Enhanced Oil Recovery, PVT of Hydrocarbon Fluids, Simulation, and Well Testing.

A Senior Manager of Reservoir Engineering with 10 years (2009-2019) of experience leading teams of highly educated and motivated engineers at Husky Energy, Canada. Developed and supervised evaluation and application of multiple new technologies, including reservoir simulation and modelling for utilization of CO2 for EOR and storage purposes, innovative chemicals for near wellbore stimulation, application of inflow control devices (ICD), Big Data and Analytics, and energy efficiency of thermal operations, to name a few. Adjunct Professor with the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Calgary (2020 – present), co-supervising several groups of students.

He is the Director and Principal Engineer of KA Energy Consulting Service Inc. (2019 – present), providing a wide range of consulting services and training in the sustainable development of oil and gas resources to Canadian and international energy companies.