UNIBEN 300 level Chemical Engineering courses (1st and 2nd semester)
Hi guys. Today on Uniben news, we’ll be taking a look at the courses offered by 300 level Chemical Engineering Uniben students.
If you’ve not seen the courses offered by 100 level engineering students in uniben, see it here – UNIBEN 100 level Engineering courses (1st and 2nd semester).
In addition to that, here are the courses offered by 200 level Chemical engineering students – UNIBEN 200 level Chemical Engineering courses (1st and 2nd semester)
In 300 level, chemical engineering students in uniben focus on chemical engineering courses like they have never done before. A whole lot of things about chemical engineering starts making sense. The total credit load for 300 level uniben chemical engineering student is 24.
In 300 level, each department face more of their courses than general courses.
Our emphasis on this article is on Chemical Engineering. Let’s take a look at the courses offered by 300 level Chemical engineering students in Uniben.
UNIBEN 300 level Chemical Engineering 1st-semester courses
| COURSE TITLE | CODE | CREDIT |
| Biochemical Engineering I | CHE 321 | 3 |
| Technical Report Writing and Communication | CHE 331 | 2 |
| Industrial Process Calculations | CHE 341 | 3 |
| Polymer Engineering I | CHE 351 | 3 |
| Fluid Flow for Chemical Engineers | CHE 361 | 3 |
| Engineering Mathematics III | EMA 381 | 3 |
| Chemical Engineering Laboratory | CHE 301 | 2 |
| Thermodynamics I | MEE 351 | 2 |
| Total | 21 |
UNIBEN 300 level Chemical Engineering 2nd-semester courses
| COURSE TITLE | CODE | CREDIT |
| Process Instrumentation & Control | CHE 322 | 3 |
| Chemical Reaction Engineering I | CHE 332 | 3 |
| Heat Transfer | CHE 352 | 3 |
| Mass Transfer | CHE 362 | 3 |
| Particle Technology | CHE 372 | 3 |
| Engineering mathematics IV | EMA 382 | 4 |
| Computer Applications in Chemical Engineering I | CHE 312 | 2 |
| Chemical Engineering Laboratory II | CHE 302 | 2 |
| TOTAL | 23 |
COURSE CONTENT FOR 300 level B.ENG (CHEMICAL ENGINEERING)
CHE321: CHEMICAL ENGINEERING THERMODYNAMICS I (3 CREDITS)
Chemicals of life. Kinematics of enzyme-catalyzed reactions. Applied enzyme catalysis. Metabolic stoichiometry and energetic. Molecular Genetics and control systems. Kinetics of substrate utilization. Product yield and biomass production in cell cultures. Transport phenomena in microbial system.
CHE331: TECHNICAL REPORT WRITING AND COMMUNICATION (2 CREDITS)
Principles of communication. Parts of technical reports: Introduction, Abstract, Main Body, Conclusions and Recommendations, Tables, Figures, Graphs and Illustrations, References, Appendices. Writing the first draft. Revising the first draft: Content and Structure. Audiences, Scientific and Technical prose: Spelling and Scientific terminology. Using numbers and symbols.
Data: Statistical analysis of data and display. Software support for various writing and graphic tasks. Use of Microsoft PowerPoint. Preparation of curricula vitae, research grant proposals, short talks and posters and feasibility report. Writing a thesis.
CHE341: INDUSTRIAL PROCESS CALCULATIONS (3 CREDITS)
Introduction to equipment of chemical plants equipment for movement and storage of material, heat transfer equipment, mass transfer equipment and equipment for physical processes. The Chemical equation and stoichiometry: limiting reactant, excess reactant, conversion, selectivity and yield. Material balances: Calculations for steady-state systems involving inert, recycle, by-pass and purges. Energy Balances: Forms of energy and overall energy balance for a chemical system. Heat capacities. Calculation of enthalpy changes: heats of fusion, vaporization, reaction, formation and combustion, solution and mixing. Combined material and energy balances. Enthalpy-concentration charts-application and construction.
CHE351: POLYMER ENGINEERING I (3 CREDITS)
Introduction to polymer and their characteristics. Source of monomers. Structure and physical properties of polymers: rheology, solubility and molecular weights. Plasticity and elasticity. The William Landel Ferry Equation.
CHE361: FLUID FLOW FOR CHEMICAL ENGINEERS (3 CREDITS)
Introduction: Definitions and principles. Fluid statics and its applications. The basic equation of fluid flow. Bernoulli’s equation. The flow of incompressible fluids. The flow of compressible fluids. Flow past immersed bodies. Fluid Friction in one- dimensional flow. The momentum balances. Transportation and metering of fluids. Agitation and mixing of fluids. Pumps, compressors and turbines. Flow-through porous media. Non- Newtonian fluids.
CHE312: COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING I (2 CREDITS)
Introduction: Structure and Parts of a computer. Input and output devices. Central Processing Unit. The spreadsheet. Menu and toolbars, cell and cell address. Absolute addressing. A range of cells. Design and creation of the template. Advantages of the spreadsheet. Copying, Function evaluation. What-if analysis, circular referencing. Matrix methods. Material and Energy balance calculations using a spreadsheet. Handling of recycling and purge using calculation options. Creation and use of scratchpad. Graphs plotting. Formatting of plots. Adding of trend lines, slope and correlation coefficient. Numerical differentiation and Integration using excel. Calculation of reactor volumes. Use of commercial software in solving material and energy balance problems e.g. Chem CAD and Hysys.
CHE322: PROCESS INSTRUMENTATION AND CONTROL (3 CREDITS)
Measuring instruments for level, pressure, flow, temperature and physical properties. Chemical composition analyses. Gas chromatography. Mass Spectrometry. Sampling Systems. Elements of Process Instrumentation Diagrams. (PID)
CHE332: CHEMICAL REACTION ENGINEERING I (3 CREDITS)
Classification and types of reactions. Kinetics of reactions. Homogenous reactions. Rate expressions Design equations for single reactions. Single ideal reactors: batch, mixed flow and plug flow reactors. Size companion of single reactors. Design for multiple reactions.
CHE352: HEAT TRANSFER (3 CREDITS)
Introduction and concepts on the mechanism of heat flow. Steady-state conduction – one dimension. Steady-state conduction – multiple directions. Heat transfer to fluids transfer. Heat transfer equipment. Calculation of heat transfer coefficients. Evaporators, reboilers, condensers and furnaces.
CHE362: MASS TRANSFER (3 CREDITS)
Boundary-Layer theory and turbulence. Navier-stokes equation. Numerical solution of Navier-stokes equation. Universal Velocity profile, Eddy diffusion.
Condensation and boiling. Theory of mass transfer. Fick’s Law. Maxwell’s law of diffusion. Mass transfer with Chemical reaction.
CHE372: PARTICLE TECHNOLOGY (3 CREDITS)
Properties of particles. The motion of particles in a fluid Stokes and Newton’s Law. Flow-through packed beds. Fluidization. Sedimentation and flocculation filtration. Screening. Classification. Size reduction.
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