Lecture 14 Chemical Engineering

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Lecture 14Chemical Engineering

• Director of Undergraduate Studies
• Professor Kofke, 510 Furnas
• Director of Graduate Studies
• Professor Mountziaris, 905 Furnas
• Chair
• Professor Lund, 306 Furnas

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Looking Back to the Turn of the Last Century...

• Fear that soon it would not be possible to feed
  all the people in the world.
• Chemical Engineers solved the problem
• Haber (1918 Nobel Prize)/Bosch (1931 Nobel Prize)
• Process for synthesis of ammonia
• 350 to 500 ºC 1.1 Tons/in2
• And now at the turn of the 20th century
• Global warming
• Protection of the environment
• Depletion of natural resources (synthetic fuels)

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Ammonia Synthesis Plant
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Jobs CEs Do

• Flow (pump/compressor size, pipe size, pressure
  drops through equipment)
• Reactor Design/ Reaction Engineering
• Heating, Cooling, Refrigeration, Heat Transfer
• Materials (polymers, metals, ceramics, catalysts)
  synthesis and/or selection
• Separation (reactants, final products) by many
  methods (distillation, absorption, adsorption,
  crystallization, etc.)

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Jobs CEs Do

• Plant Design / Process Optimization
• Safety
• Plant Operation
• Environmental / Waste Treatment
• Sales, Marketing, Distribution
• Law, Medicine, Management
• Education

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Tools CEs Use

• Mathematics (algebra, calculus, differential
  equations, numerical methods)
• Chemistry (inorganic, organic, physical)
• Mass, Energy and Momentum Balances
• Thermodynamics and Kinetics
• Transport Phenomena / Transfer Operations
• Unit Operations
• Process Control Optimization
• Process Simulators
• Modeling and Computation

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Chemical Engineering Facts

• U.S. Initial Placement of CEs, 1998
• Industry 57.2
• Government 2.2
• Graduate School 14.4
• Returned Overseas 1.7
• Unemployed 6.6
• Other 4.2
• Unknown 13.6

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Industries that Employ CEs

• Petroleum, petrochemical, chemical
• Plastics / polymers
• Pharmaceutical
• Fine and high performance chemicals
• Food
• Microelectronics
• Biotechnology
• Automobile
• Education and Professional

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Industry Employment 1998

• Chemical 26.1
• Fuels 10.8
• Electronics 11.4
• Food/Consumer Products 14.6
• Design Construction 7.2
• Materials 6.0
• Biotechnology (Pharmaceuticals) 4.6
• Environmental 2.6
• Pulp Paper 2.9
• Public Utilities 0.8
• Other Industries 13

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The CE CurriculumFreshmen

• Fall
• Calculus I
• Chemistry
• Eng. Solutions
• General Education (2)

• Spring
• Calculus II
• Physics I
• Chemistry II
• General Education (2)

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The CE CurriculumSophomore

• Fall
• Calculus III
• Physics II
• Engineering Thermo
• CE 212 (Mass Energy Balances)
• General Education

• Spring
• Differential Equations
• Statics
• CE Thermo
• EAS 230
• Technical Elective (Communications)

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The CE CurriculumJunior

• Fall
• Organic Chemistry I
• CE Design
• Transport Processes I
• CE laboratory I
• General education

• Spring
• Organic Chemistry II
• Physical Chemistry lab
• CE Unit Operations I
• Transport Processes II
• CE laboratory II
• General education

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The CE CurriculumSenior

• Fall
• CE Unit Operations II
• CE Reaction Engineering
• Material Science Corrosion
• CE laboratory III
• CE Technical Elective
• General education

• Spring
• CE Plant Design
• CE laboratory IV
• CE Technical Elective
• Technical Elective
• Engineering Elective

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CE Electives (Courses)

• Rheology of fluids
• Introduction to polymers
• Engineering and process economics
• Process analysis and synthesis
• Process control
• Biochemical engineering
• Colloid and surface phenomena
• Frontiers of chemical technology

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CE Electives Programs

• Internship, ECI, Co-op
• Independent Study
• NSF REU in Environmentally Benign Processing
• BS/MEng dual degree program
• BS/MBA program

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CE Program Quality

• Student AIChE Chem-E Car Team
• First and Second Places in Northeast
• Compete at nationals in November
• Last year, 3rd at nationals in environmental
  design competition
• Most SUNY Chancellors Award Winners in EAS
• 4 of 8 tenured professors
• Nationally ranked 29th
• out of 93 that were ranked and 161 total
• Only CE in SUNY

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CE Faculty Quality

• AIChE Directory lists 161 Chem. Eng. Depts. ours
  is ranked 29th in most recent NRC
• NRC Ranking is 13th on per faculty basis (Chem.
  Eng. Ed. 33, 72, 1999)
• 10th in the world in publication records of
  Chem. Eng. Depts Korean Advanced Institute of
  Science and Technology
• 7th in the U.S. in citation impact Institute for
  Scientific Information (University Science
  Indicators)
• Externally Supported Research (1999-2000FY)1,224
  ,136

• U.S. Medal of Science winner
• National Academy of Engineering member
• National Society Awards
• 7 National Science Foundation (NSF) Young
  Investigator Awards (PYI, etc.), R. H. Wilhelm
  Award (AIChE), Alpha Chi Sigma Award (AIChE),
  National Science Foundation Creativity Award,
  Kendall Award (ACS), Walker Award (AIChE),
  Norman Hackerman Award in Solid State Science and
  Technology (Electrochemical Society), Langmuir
  Distinguished Lecturer Award (ACS), E. V.
  Murphree Award in Industrial Engineering
  Chemistry (ACS), ATT Foundation Award (ASEE),, 2
  National Institute of Health (NIH) First Awards,
  3 Dow Outstanding New Faculty Award (ASEE), Cray
  Research Award for Supercomputing Applications, 7
  SUNY Chancellors Awards for Teaching Excellence