From Beaker to Barrel: Chemical Engineering for Chemists

Overview

Learn how to apply chemical engineering knowledge to further your bench-grade process and understand important chemical engineering principals including thermodynamics, material balance, reactor design, and more. This course will be useful for those who need to negotiate and interact with chemical engineers and who need to appraise the industrial feasibility of their newly conceived chemical process.

When and Where

This course will meet online for 5 webcast sessions of 90 minutes each.

Key Topics

• Material balance, transport phenomenon, thermodynamics, and process control
• Cost engineering
• The chemical engineering design process

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How you will benefit from this course

• Learn how to apply chemical engineering knowledge to further your bench-grade process: design a pilot, and participate in the design of a full scale layout.
• Understand important chemical engineering principles--including thermodynamics, material balance, reactor design, separation processes, heat exchangers, scale-up techniques, pilot design, and simulation.
• Be able to appraise the feasibility of a newly formulated chemical process, estimate the cost of design, and construction of a pilot level as well as a full scale facility for your newly invented or modified chemical process.
• Acquire knowledge to use in negotiations with chemical engineers, overseeing their design, and insuring maximum benefit from their services.
• Know how to negotiate with chemical engineers, oversee their design, and get the maximum benefit from their services.

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Course Instructor

Gideon Samid is a chemical and a nuclear engineer with a broad experience (NASA, Exxon, DoD) specializing in the bench-to-production process, estimating the effort to achieve an R&D objective, and in mathematical engineering applications. Dr. Samid earned his degrees at the Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology, holds some patents, and published a critically acclaimed book: "Computer Organized Cost Engineering."

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Who Should Attend?

• Scientific professionals who wish to scale-up their bench process, build a pilot, and participate in designing a full-scale production line.
• This course will also be useful to those who need to negotiate and interact with chemical engineers and who need to appraise the industrial feasibility of their newly conceived chemical process.

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Agenda

Theory:

• Material balance
• Transport phenomenon
• Thermodynamics
• Process control
• Cost engineering

Conceptual cost estimation:

• VRM (Validity Resolution Methodology)
• KRM (Knowledge Realization Methodology)
• BiPSA (Binary Polling Scenario Analysis)

Practice:

• Getting materials together
• Reactor-mixer design
• Separating materials from each other
• Solid state separations
• Liquid state separations
• Distillation
• Gaseous state separations
• Multi-phase separation

Changing appearance of materials:

• Evaporation/sublimation
• Crystallization/solidification
• Storing materials
• Transporting Materials
• The chemical engineering design process
• Chemical engineering activity range

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System Requirements

You need a high-speed connection to the Internet and an up-to-date version of your web browser. For the audio portion of the live session, we will use a telephone conference call for attendees from the US and Canada. You will need a phone near your computer capable of making long distance phone calls to a 1-800 number. A hands-free or speaker phone is highly recommended.

International attendees may have access to a toll-free global call-in number or use VOIP, depending on their country. An ACS staff member will contact you to complete these arrangements. Contact shortcourses@acs.org, if you have any questions.

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Course Fees

Note: Each participant must register individually for this course.

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