GCH573Advanced Process Engineering Lab
GCH415Applied Organic Chemistry
3 credits | Pre-requisite: GCH310
This course looks at the organic chemistry industry. Topics covered include: major sources of raw materials (coal, oil and petrochemistry); classification of oils; fractional distillation of petroleum; the olefins; oxidized derivatives of ethylene; benzene hydrocarbons; production and processing; synthetic polymers; and the detergents.
GCH412Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
3 credits | Pre-requisite: (GCH355 Or GCH350) and GMC340 and MAT227
This course deals with the following topics: The fluid mixtures, fugacity and activity coefficients, the theory and applications of solution thermodynamics, chemical reaction equilibrium and multi-reaction equilibrium, phase equilibria including an extended treatment of vapor/liquid equilibrium, and adsorption and osmotic equilibria, the thermodynamics analysis of real processes.
GCH435Chemical Kinetics and Reactor Design
3 credits | Pre-requisite: GCH410 And (GCH350 Or GCH355) And GMC451
Chemical reaction engineering is a combination of chemical kinetics and design and analysis of reactors to apply and optimize the desired reaction. A thorough understanding of the numerical aspects of chemical kinetics is fundamental to designing and selecting the appropriate chemical reactor for the studied system. This course presents first the kinetics of homogeneous and heterogeneous systems, then kinetic rate expressions are developed and integrated for simple reactions, and multiple reaction systems. Adsorption isotherms may be introduced to develop kinetic rate expressions for heterogeneous catalytic systems. The course then proceeds with chemical reactor design of ideal, isothermal and non-isothermal reactors. The basic steady-state design principles and equations of different ideal reactors models (discontinuous, Continued Stirred Tank Reactor CSTR and plug flow) are covered. Selectivity is introduced to increase the yield of the desired product. The course discusses later the reactor safety through non-steady-state reactors. Throughout this course, the principles are illustrated using examples taken from organic chemistry, industrial, and/or catalytic reactions in the liquid phase and gaseous phase.
GCH465Design of Chemical Reactors
3 credits | Pre-requisite: GCH435 and GCH450
This course deals with the interpretation of the evolution of different systems (with one reactor or multiple reactors), the ideal reactor designs and the possible shifts from ideal behaviors, the effect of transport phenomena in reactive systems, the definition of steady state and stability analysis. Another part will deal with reactor optimization, analysis of heterogeneous reactors and an introduction on industrial reactive system simulation and modeling.
GEL211Electric Circuits
3 credits
This course presents the basics of electric circuits’ analysis: introduction to theory, circuit variables and elements (dependent and independent voltage and current sources, resistors, inductors, capacitors); basic analysis and design of resistive circuits and different analysis techniques (Node-Voltage analysis, Mesh-Current analysis, source transformations, Thevenin’s and Norton’s equivalent, maximum power transfer, and Superposition methods); an introduction to capacitance, inductance, and mutual inductance; current-voltage relation; RC, RL and RLC circuits analysis (natural and step responses). Topics also include ideal operational amplifiers circuit simplification, steady-state and transient analysis, phasors, frequency response, Kirchhoff’s laws and Thevenin’s and Norton’s equivalent represented in the frequency domain, Laplace transform and an introduction to Transfer functions.
GEL271Electric Circuits Lab
1 credits
Introduction to the laboratory devices. Introduction to Pspice (simulation software). Simple electric circuits like voltage and current-divider and resistance measurements are implemented and analyzed. Then, students are faced to Thevenin's theorem and Norton equivalent circuit. Ideal Operational Amplifier circuits like the inverting, non-inverting, integrator … are also studied. The Bode and phase diagrams of first order passive filters are determined and simulated. Finally, the Kirchoff's law in the frequency domain and Thevenin theorem and power measurement are done.
GCH440Environment and Security in Chemical Industry
3 credits | Pre-requisite: GCH355 Or GCH350
This aim of this course is to provide to students conceptual and practical tools to preserve the quality of the environment and avoid accidents in the industry. Topics covered include risks and environmental indicators of air pollution, water and soil quality criteria and standards, methods and procedures for characterizing environments. Also examined are risk analysis, evaluation procedures, fault tree analysis, risk reduction and preventive remedies levels, corrective and curative.
GCH596Final Project I
1 credits
This course pushes the students to demonstrate preparedness to start their careers as professional engineers by undertaking an investigation of a research topic relevant to the profession and by appraising its practical experience. The research topic will give the students the opportunity to marshal the relevant knowledge and skills from various courses and laboratories of the program and apply them to the investigation of an approved research topic and then to produce a report of a professional standard.
GCH597Final Project II
3 credits | Pre-requisite: GCH596
This course pushes the students to demonstrate preparedness to start their careers as professional engineers by undertaking an investigation of a research topic relevant to the profession and by appraising its practical experience. The research topic and applied developed product or study will give the students the opportunity to marshal the relevant knowledge and skills from various courses and laboratories of the program and apply them to the investigation of an approved research topic and then to produce a report of a professional standard. This course requires students to exhibit/develop a proactive approach to manage, orient and present a project.
GMC471Fluid and Thermal Lab
1 credits | Pre-requisite: GMC435 And GMC451
The objective of this laboratory is to show the students different experiments in thermal sciences. The students will investigate the laws and theories of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer using diverse methods of measurements including limitations and boundaries of each theory.
GMC430Fluid Mechanics
3 credits | Pre-requisite: GMC340
This course provides a concise and clear presentation of fundamental topics in fluid mechanics, which deals with energy transportation by a fluid. These topics concern the development and application of control volume and differential form analysis and applications of fluid flows. Topics include fundamental concepts, basic equations in integral form for a control volume, introduction to differential analysis of fluid motion, potential flow, incompressible flow, and internal and external viscous flows including boundary layer concepts.
GMC451Heat Transfer
3 credits | Pre-requisite: GMC430
The objective of this course is to extend the knowledge of thermodynamics and fluid analysis by considering the rates of the heat transfer modes, namely, conduction, convection, and radiation and their applications. Thus, the course will cover steady and transient heat conduction, extended surfaces, external and internal forced convection of laminar and turbulent flows, natural convection, heat exchanger principles, thermal radiation, view factors and radiation exchange between diffuse and gray surfaces. Further, numerical simulations in one and two-dimensional problems will be developed.
GMC435Hydraulics
2 credits | Pre-requisite: GMC430
This course deals with basic concepts of hydraulics, namely, the continuity, energy and momentum equations. This includes hydrostatics, internal viscous with application of Bernoulli equation and losses. Further, it covers physical modeling (dimensionless analysis and similarities), hydraulic pumps, and turbines.
GCH480Internship I
1 credits | Pre-requisite: GCH450 and GCH435
In order to register for this course, the students first spend a minimum of two months experience in the industry or a company and live a real life experience in the field of practice that they have chosen. Afterwards, the students present their “job” and what they learned from it in a well-structured and well-written scientific report.
GCH581Internship II
1 credits
In order to register for this course, the students first spend a minimum of two months experience in the industry or a company and live a real life experience in the field of practice that they have chosen. Afterwards, the students present their “job” and what they learned from it in a well-structured and well-written scientific report.
GIN221Introduction to Programming
3 credits
This introductory course in programming enables engineering students to learn the methods of rigorous software development solutions in the object-oriented paradigm. The course is supplemented by laboratory sessions for the application of programming concepts studied in the Eclipse integrated development environment.
GEL425Linear Control Systems
3 credits | Pre-requisite: GEN428
This course is designed to provide the student with the fundamental principles of the control of dynamical systems. It covers the following topics: Linear system modelling (electrical systems, mechanical systems, electro-mechanical systems), transfer function and state space modelling; time response of first order and second order linear systems and error calculation; Frequency response, Bode and Nichols diagrams, Nyquist diagram; System stability technics (Routh, Nyquist, placement of poles and zeros of the closed loop); Root locus analysis; System behaviour in frequency domain (phase and gain margins, robustness); Correction of linear systems, P, PI, PD and PID corrections; lead and lag correctors, correction via state space.
GCH434Mass Transfer Operations
3 credits | Pre-requisite: GMC451
The objective of this course is to provide a means to teach undergraduate chemical engineering students the basic principles of mass transfer and to apply these principles to the design of equipment used in separation processes. This course will cover the fundamental principles of mass transfer in the steady-state, unsteady state and convective mass transfer. The course will also presents an advanced perspective of the mass transfer phenomena and its application in separation unit.
GCH347Materials Sciences
3 credits | Pre-requisite: CHM212 Or CHE212
This course introduces fundamental concepts in materials science. The main purpose of this course is to provide a good understanding of materials science and engineering. Topics covered include: an introduction to materials science, atomic structure and interatomic bonding, crystalline structure, crystal defects, diffusion, phase diagrams, mechanical properties of metals, ceramics, polymers and composite materials, corrosion and degradation of materials.
GCH310Organic Chemistry
3 credits | Pre-requisite: CHM212 Or CHE212
The aim of the course is to give students a basic knowledge of the nomenclature, the molecular structures and the reaction mechanisms of organic chemistry, as well as methods of organic synthesis. The following topics are covered: the structure of organic molecules, the geometry of organic molecules, stereoisomerism, the electronic structure of molecules, reactions and their mechanisms, nomenclature, alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, Aromatic hydrocarbons, derivatives halogens, aldehydes, ketones and carboxylic acids.
GCH371Organic Chemistry Laboratory
1 credits | Pre-requisite: CHM270
This course provides students with the principal techniques in organic chemistry. The experiments concern many examples of reactions, having a particular relevance to industrial organic chemistry.
GCH410Physical Chemistry
3 credits | Pre-requisite: GMC340
This course covers the following topics: real gas (intermolecular interactions, molecular collisions, the critical temperature, the real gas state’s equation, gases liquefaction); the first principle of thermodynamics (definition of enthalpy, enthalpy of formation, enthalpy of chemical transformations); the second principle of thermodynamics (entropy, spontaneous transformation, the Gibbs energy, the equilibrium reactions); the equilibrium phase change (phase diagrams, properties of non-electrolytes, phase diagrams of mixtures); fundamental links between electrochemistry and thermodynamics redox reaction, and electrochemical affinity electrode potential.
GCH525Plant Design
GCH355Principles of Chemical Engineering
3 credits | Pre-requisite: (CHM212 Or CHE212) and MAT217
This course deals with the following topics : it starts with flow sheet symbols and drawings, followed by the mass and energy balances for steady-state reacting and non-reacting systems; composition variables and mass and energy flow rates; material balances in non-reacting systems and in systems with one or more chemical reactions; degree of freedom analysis for non-reacting and reacting systems; enthalpy of chemical reaction, heats of formation, heat capacities, dew points and bubble points; and numerous examples with process flow sheets to illustrate each topic. The students will learn to draw a flow sheet and construct it to solve chemical balance equations around multi-unit systems, and then extend this to other units.
GCH475Process Control Laboratory
1 credits | Pre-requisite: GCH470
In this lab students will learn about process control using computer simulation. They will develop mathematical models of chemical processes by writing unsteady state mass and energy balances, and examine transient response of closed loop sampled data systems. Analysis and design of sampled data controllers, digital PI and PID controllers are also covered.
GCH470Process Design and Control
3 credits | Pre-requisite: GEL425 And GCH450 And GCH435
A course covering the concepts of feedback control systems in the chemical and process industry. The course involves dynamic modeling, design and analysis of dynamic control systems.
GCH472Process Engineering Laboratory
1 credits | Pre-requisite: GCH450 and GCH435
This laboratory offers to the students the opportunity to use all the basic knowledge to design, explore and optimize many basic operations. During this laboratory, the students will study the effect of corrosion on metals and desalting water by ion exchange columns. The students will use chemical reactors (tubular, continuous and discontinuous), and will learn how to control temperature, pressure and flows (manually and using digital programs). Another part of this lab deals with a deep bed filtration apparatus to study the pressure drop.
GCH474Process Instrumentation and measurements
3 credits | Pre-requisite: GCH470
The aim of this course is to provide information about the standard feedback control algorithms, all components of the feedback control loop, control system instrumentation and process safety. All types of sensors used in chemical engineering are introduced. The sensors will be used in the chain acquisition-instrumentation. An introduction of LABVIEW is also presented.
GCH562Process Simulation Lab
1 credits | Pre-requisite: GCH465
This laboratory offers to the students the opportunity to use the ProSim program, a computer-based process simulator, to study different industrial processes. These include: the dehydration of natural gas, LPG recovery, bioethanol production plant, naphthalene separation, heterogeneous extractive distillation, biofuel production plant, production of ethanol and production of cyclohexane.
GEN499Seminars and Conferences
Each semester, the Faculty of Engineering organizes several seminars and conferences in which leading figures in the professional and academic world target future engineers with a speech presenting scientific, technical, and/or industrial topics, etc. and showing them the various aspects of the engineering profession.
GCH471Separation and Spectroscopic Techniques Lab
2 credits | Pre-requisite: GCH310
This module provides an overview of the current methods of analysis in diverse sectors such as the chemical and food industries, medical analysis laboratories, and environmental sciences. The idea is to connect the practical aspects of each studied method to its basic scientific concepts. Students will learn good laboratory practice through this module as well as the various separation methods (different chromatographic techniques) and spectroscopic techniques (IR, UV, NMR, fluorescence, atomic absorption and emission).
GCH450Separation Processes
3 credits | Pre-requisite: (GCH410 Or GCH412) And GMC451
The main topics discussed in this course represent the core unit operations in the Engineering fields. Beginning with the distillation process (atmospheric and vacuum distillations, rectification), the graphic method of McCabe Thiele is thoroughly discussed and applied with material balance equations. In the Liquid – Liquid Extraction process (binary and ternary mixtures and diagrams), McCabe Thiele methods are used to estimate the total number of theoretical successive extractions. The course then looks at filtration: the different types of filtrations and the mechanisms occurring and the parameters to control to achieve it. There is a detailed examination of deep bed filtration and cake filtration. Decantation operations will also be introduced.
GMC340Thermodynamics
3 credits | Pre-requisite: CHM212 Or CHE212
This course is designed to provide a fundamental understanding of the transformation of thermal energy and the behavior of its physical quantities. Such transformation is the conversion of heat into work. Engineers are generally interested in studying systems and how they interact with their surroundings. Its use becomes indispensable in our society.
GCH451Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering
3 credits | Pre-requisite: (GCH434 Or GMC462) and GCH450
The students taking this course have already learned the basic principles of mass transfer in the course “Mass Transfer for Chemical Engineers” as a prerequisite of this course. They have also acquired the basics of heat transfer from the course ‘Heat Transfer” during their studies at the chemical Engineering department. This course is a complementary to separation processes, and presents an advanced application of heat and mass transfer in the main unit operations in the Process Engineering. The main topics discussed in this course are related to the main principles of unit operations in the Engineering fields: Fixed and Fluidized beds, Crystallization, Liquid-Liquid extraction, Evaporation (cooling towers and condensers), Drying, Fluid-solid separation, osmosis and reverse osmosis (Membrane separation). Other processes such as, Absorption, Adsorption, chromatography and ion exchange (agitated vessels) will be presented.