Transient kinetic analysis of multipath reactions: an educational module using the IPython software package
Publication date: Available online 13 January 2016 Source:Education for Chemical Engineers Author(s): Boris Golman A large number of industrial catalytic reactions proceeds via multiple pathways. A transient response method has been successfully utilized for the analysis of kinetics and mechanism of multipath reactions. In this paper, we describe an educational module for teaching kinetics of complex heterogeneously-catalyzed reactions based on the software package for simulation of transient responses in a tubular packed-bed reactor. The module includes the reactor model description, derivation and verification of k...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - January 14, 2016 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Teaching chemical product design
Publication date: Available online 31 December 2015 Source:Education for Chemical Engineers Author(s): Alirio Rodrigues, E.L. Cussler The chemical industry today includes both commodity products and higher value-added products. While the design of commodities is dominated by the process costs, higher value-added products also depend on product design, including discovery, product selection, and time-to-market. Chemical engineering education has sensibly begun to change toward courses on both process and product design. However, while there is an emerging consensus that these changes should take place, there is no c...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - January 11, 2016 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Integration between industry and university: Case study, Faculty of Engineering at Rabigh, Saudi Arabia
Publication date: Available online 11 December 2015 Source:Education for Chemical Engineers Author(s): Abdullah Alshehri, Saud A. Gutub, Mostafa A.-B. Ebrahim, Hani Shafeek, Mohamed F. Soliman, M.H. Abdel-Aziz Collaboration between university and industry has long existed, but the rapid increase of global knowledge has increased the demand for strategic relationships that go beyond the conventional funding of research projects. University research should be developed in future to play an important role in industry and in turn economic growth. For a successful collaboration, both sides should overcome the co...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - December 27, 2015 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Reflections on interdisciplinarity and teaching chemical engineering on an interdisciplinary degree programme in biotechnology
Publication date: Available online 17 December 2015 Source:Education for Chemical Engineers Author(s): Greg Foley Some reflections on interdisciplinarity are presented based on the author's experience of more than twenty years teaching chemical and bioprocess engineering as a minor subject of an interdisciplinary programme in biotechnology. Key literature on interdisciplinary education is reviewed and some generic challenges faced in the delivery of interdisciplinary programmes are outlined. Finally, specific challenges faced by chemical engineers teaching chemical engineering as a minor component of an interdiscipli...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - December 27, 2015 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Information Literacy: The impact of a hands-on workshop for international postgraduate students
This study examined the usefulness of integrating information literacy as an auxiliary workshop into a postgraduate Food Processing course, with the focus on course and subject related information. Given the diverse background of the students enrolled in this programme (86% are international students) and the importance of the skills to be acquired, it is crucial that these students are supported to be successful. Food Processing is a complex cross-disciplinary postgraduate programme and supporting the international students who take up this course is challenging. The workshop introduced the students to the special nature ...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - December 27, 2015 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
SigmaPipe as an education tool for engineers
Publication date: January 2016 Source:Education for Chemical Engineers, Volume 14 Author(s): Rod Dry, Hashil Rabadia, Diana Felipe, Gordon Ingram, Nicoleta Maynard, Esther Ventura-Medina Chemical engineering students are trained to solve problems involving pipe flow and heat transfer at a fundamental level. However, when they confront such problems as graduates, they often do not have time to perform such calculations. Although many commercial software packages exist, most (i) require licence fees and (ii) have a significant learning time. Consequently, commercial packages are generally not a realistic choi...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - December 27, 2015 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
A hundred years of chemical equilibrium calculations – The case of ammonia synthesis
Publication date: Available online 28 September 2015 Source:Education for Chemical Engineers Author(s): Mordechai Shacham, Neima Brauner An exercise that involves a process of great historical importance – that of synthesizing ammonia from its elements – is presented. In the exercise, the students are required to calculate the equilibrium conversion to ammonia using three mathematical models: a regression model which is based on experimental equilibrium data obtained by Haber and le Rossignol over a hundred years ago; a model based on the Gibbs energy and ideal gas conditions; and the Gibbs energy model with ga...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - October 2, 2015 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
A hundred years of chemical equilibrium calculations–the case of ammonia synthesis
Publication date: Available online 28 September 2015 Source:Education for Chemical Engineers Author(s): Mordechai Shacham, Neima Brauner An exercise that involves a process of great historical importance - that of synthesizing ammonia from its elements is presented. In the exercise, the students are required to calculate the equilibrium conversion to ammonia using three mathematical models: a regression model which is based on experimental equilibrium data obtained by Haber and le Rossignol over a hundred years ago; a model based on the Gibbs energy and ideal gas conditions; and the Gibbs energy model with gas phas...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - September 30, 2015 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Tangible Visualization of Molecular Dynamics Simulations using 3-D Printing
Publication date: Available online 29 July 2015 Source:Education for Chemical Engineers Author(s): Jason E. Bara, C. Heath Turner, Zhongtao Zhang, Christopher I. Hawkins Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are vital tools in modern research as they can provide molecular and atomic level insights into macroscopic behaviors of organic, inorganic, biological and hybrid materials. The analytical process of translating structural coordinates into a complex 3-D structure can be a challenging and engaging computational exercise for students. Here, we describe a detailed methodology for transforming the outputs of MD s...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - July 29, 2015 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
A Homogeneous Chemical Reactor Analysis and Design Laboratory: The Reaction Kinetics of Dye and Bleach
Publication date: Available online 2 July 2015 Source:Education for Chemical Engineers Author(s): Jason C. Ganley An experimental module for senior-level reaction engineering/reactor design students is described. The module is used to characterize the kinetics of dye (food coloring) neutralization by household bleach, and the reactor system is configurable for use in either batch reactor or continuous-stirred tank reactor (CSTR) modes. The reactor temperature, volume, reactant feed rates, and reactant concentrations may be adjusted to enable students to obtain a wide range of kinetic data. Dye concentrations in the re...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - July 3, 2015 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Real and virtual bioreactor laboratory sessions by STSE–CLIL WebQuest
Publication date: Available online 26 June 2015 Source:Education for Chemical Engineers Author(s): Serrano-Aroca Ángel An innovative teaching methodology, which incorporates all the advantages offered separately by WebQuest (an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web), CLIL (Content Language Integrated Learning) and STSE (Science, Technology, Society and Environment) was developed to integrate real bioreactor experiments to produce ecological bioethanol with virtual bioreactor computer simulation. Thus, by means of this type of WebQuest, it is pos...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - June 30, 2015 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Real and Virtual Bioreactor Laboratory Sessions by STSE-CLIL WebQuest
Publication date: Available online 26 June 2015 Source:Education for Chemical Engineers Author(s): Serrano-Aroca Ángel An innovative teaching methodology, which incorporates all the advantages offered separately by WebQuest (an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web), CLIL (Content Language Integrated Learning) and STSE (Science, Technology, Society and Environment) was developed to integrate real bioreactor experiments to produce ecological bioethanol with virtual bioreactor computer simulation. Thus, by means of this type of WebQuest, it is ...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - June 27, 2015 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Example of a micro-adaptive instruction methodology for the improvement of flipped-classrooms and adaptive-learning based on advanced blended-learning tools
Publication date: Available online 20 June 2015 Source:Education for Chemical Engineers Author(s): K.E. Kakosimos Despite the wide spread of modern teaching techniques such as the flipped classroom, adaptive e-learning, and active learning, still most of them provide limited and delayed feedback from the student to the instructor. Something, which could lower their efficiency and limit their applicability. This paper presents a teaching methodology and the development of the related tools. A key aspect, of this methodology, is the collection of students’ feedback prior to lecture and additional detailed information ...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - June 21, 2015 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Towards the implementation of a safety education program in a teaching and research institution
Publication date: Available online 17 June 2015 Source:Education for Chemical Engineers Author(s): Thierry Meyer Education is a continuing process for improving the level of knowledge including the process of learning and acquiring information. It is widely believed that constant exposure to new ideas and skills makes people better workers, thinkers, and societal contributors. This paper presents and discusses some safety education strategies that were implemented to improve the safety level in a research and teaching institution. They were applied to our Basic Sciences School where chemical engineering is belonging. ...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - June 18, 2015 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
On the Average Perception of Perceived Averages
Publication date: Available online 17 June 2015 Source:Education for Chemical Engineers Author(s): Vanessa C. Harvey , Patrice Farand , Robert Legros , Jason R. Tavares The Chemical Engineering curriculum at Polytechnique Montreal is structured to gradually provide more and more autonomy to the students. The third-year Unit Operations is taught using an outcomes-based approach and represents a turning point in the undergraduate curriculum where rubrics-based assessments overtake normative assessments. This begs the question: is it really necessary to divulge the average to students following assessments? Those from...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - June 18, 2015 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
