Process Engineering (5 cr)

Objective

After completing this course, you will be able to
• describe the significance of process design in process integration
• present main processes and machinery of process industries
• work out the dimensioning of process machinery and compute steady states
• define dynamic flow, heat and mass balances for simulations
• identify authority obligations in process design.

Content

How are you able to design processes by taking into account technical, economic, safety-related and environment-related aspects?
What kinds of machines are used in processes and how do they work?
How do you compute the capacity of a process and its steady state?
How do you create a dynamic process model and make a simulation program?
Which processes need authority obligations?

Evaluation

Students can
-use professional vocabulary and concepts in an expert way in different situations.
-choose appropriate models, methods, software and techniques according to the purpose and justify these choices.

Course material

Learn materials
Learning Environment for Papermaking and Automation, KnowPap, AEL and Prowledge, 2015, Finland.
Learning Environment for Chemical Pulping and Automation, KnowPulp, AEL and Prowledge, 2015, Finland.
AutoCAD ja CADMATIC
Matlab Simulink

Study forms and methods

Scheduled track:
After completing this course, you will be able to
- describe the role of process design in process integration
- present main processes and machinery of process industries
- work out the dimensioning of process machinery and compute steady states
- define dynamic flow, heat and mass balances for simulations
- identify authority obligations in process design.
How are you able to design processes by taking into account technical, economic, safety-related and environment-related aspects?
What kinds of machines are used in processes and how are they working?
How do you compute the capacity of a process and compute its steady state?
How do you come to a dynamic process model and make a simulation program?
Which processes do need authority obligations?

Independent track:
Working as a process designer and portfolio

Blended track:
Exam and design project

Timing of exams and assignments

Exam 28.10.2020.
Resit exam 11.1.2021.

Student workload

20 h lectures
40 h supervised design and simulation exercises
75 h self-study

Further information

Prerequisite courses are:
Energy Engineering Mathematics 2
Technical visualisation and CAD
Statics and strength of materials
Thermodynamics and heat transfer
The participation in design and simulation exercises according to the schedule is required.

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment methods and criteria

Written exam, with grades 0-5, 60 %.
Project, with grades 0-5, 40 %.
Both should be accepted.