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| Old Course Code | Subject Area | Catalogue Number | Long Title | Units | Description |
| 1E201 | CHEE | 2001 | Process Principles | 2 | Basic principles of process engineering including development or conservation principles applied to mass & energy, illustrated on a small process plant. Construction, operation & analysis of plant & teamwork principles needed to achieve goals. |
| 1E202 | CHEE | 2002 | Process Systems Analysis | 2 | Unit operations in process engineering & their analysis in terms of degrees of freedom & solvability. Computer-aided flowsheeting tools for process analysis & application to economic & environmental impacts. Techniques for decomposition of large, complex |
| 1E203 | CHEE | 2003 | Fluid & Particle Mechanics | 2 | Application of conservation laws, continuity, momentum & energy balances. Fluids statics, Bernoulli equation, pipe flow. Experimental techniques, viscosity, flow measurement, pumps. Non-Newtonian behaviour. Solids characterisation, drag, settling & flow. |
| 1E204 | CHEE | 2004 | Principles of Molecular Biotechnology | 2 | Introduction to biochemical & microbiological principles of relevance to engineers: cell biology, metabolism, molecular aspects of gene expression, structure & functions of biological molecules. Applications to industrial processes. |
| 1E301 | CHEE | 3001 | Engineering Investigation & Analysis | 1 | Project-based investigation of engineering operations. Effective quantitative sampling. Statistical analysis of data. Technical reporting & project management skills. |
| 1E302 | CHEE | 3002 | Heat & Mass Transfer | 2 | Fundamentals of hear & mass transfer. Concepts of heat exchange & heat exchanger selection. Differential & stage-wise mass transfer processes. Case studies of equipment for heat & mass transfer unit operations. |
| 1E303 | CHEE | 3003 | Process Engineering Thermodynamics | 2 | 1st and 2nd laws of thermodynamics for steady & unsteady systems. Exergy analysis. Equations of state. Gibbs free energy, fugacity & activity. Phase equilibria, vapour-liquid equilibria. Pure components & mixtures. Chemical reaction equilibria. |
| 1E304 | CHEE | 3004 | Unit Operations | 2 | Selected important unit operations in solids handling (hopper design, solid-fluid separations, particle size reduction & enlargement) & heat & mass transfer (furnaces, distillation, drying, membrane separation, leaching, bioprocess separation). Process in |
| 1E305 | CHEE | 3005 | Reaction Engineering | 2 | Reaction kinetics & mechanisms. Design of batch, flow & multiple reactors. Residence time distribution & nonideal flow reactors. Nonisothermal reactors. Catalytic & non-catalytic heterogeneous reactions. Transport effects. Multiple reactors. |
| 1E306 | CHEE | 3006 | Process & Control System Synthesis | 2 | Synthesis of a process flowsheet & control system. Flexibility & operability of design. Control system synthesis for an entire flowsheet, basic instrumentation, feedback & feedforward control & discrete event system design. Integration of process modelling |
| 1E307 | CHEE | 3007 | Process Modelling & Dynamics | 2 | Mathematical process modelling for design, control & optimisation of process systems. Conservation principles, development of constitutive equations in models & analysis of resultant models for use in control & diagnosis of process faults. Model verification |
| 1E402 | CHEE | 6000 | Applied Environmental Chemistry | 2 | Issues of pollution & pollution control, including industrial pollutants sources, potential hazards, life span, toxicity, characterisation of waste, both municipal & industrial, water treatment, hazardous waste, air pollution control, waste disposal, stra |
| 1E405 | CHEE | 4005 | Advanced Polymer Rheology & Processing | 2 | Basic rheology & rheometry. Tensor analysis. Constitutive equations. Analysis & modelling of industrial polymer processing operations. Modelling polymer flows. |
| 1E406 | CHEE | 4006 | Individual Inquiry A | 2 | Self-directed learning under supervision by an academic staff member. Students arrange topic with supervisor & prepare an outline of proposed work, which must be accepted by the subject coordinator prior to semester start. |
| 1E407 | CHEE | 4007 | Individual Inquiry B | 2 | Self-directed learning under supervision by an academic staff member. Students arrange topic with supervisor & prepare an outline of proposed work, which must be accepted by the subject coordinator prior to semester start. |
| 1E408 | CHEE | 4008 | Cell & Tissue Engineering | 2 | Introduction to cell & tissue engineering for human therapeutic applications. Engineering analysis of physico-chemical processes that affect, limit & govern the function of cells & tissues. Design of functional tissue units. Clinical applications & regula |
| E1381 | CHEE | 4010 | Occupational Health & Toxicology | 1 | Engineering controls on hazards in the workplace; emergency planning; non-toxic chemical hazards; transport, storage & use of dangerous chemicals; occupational health programs; acute & chronic effects; exposure limits; dose to risk conversion; toxicology |
| E1449 | CHEE | 4009 | Transport Phenomena | 2 | Various first principles encountered in various engineering areas. Examples cover momentum, heat & mass transfer demonstrating utility of first principles. |
| E1455 | CHEE | 4011 | Process Dynamics & Control II | 1 | Determination of optimal operating conditions, constraint control. Interaction analysis, multivariable & decoupling control strategies. Step testing & time series analysis. Batch plant control systems. Alarms & interlocks. |
| E1468 | CHEE | 4013 | Loss Control Engineering | 1 | Legislation, safety, design, pressure systems, emissions, commissioning, operation, maintenance, modifications, loss control, hazop, hazan. |
| E1482 | CHEE | 4015 | Special Topics VII | 1 | Special topics in a field relevant to chemical engineering |
| E1486 | CHEE | 4016 | Special Topics IV | 1 | Special Topics related to specific technologies in chemical engineering. |
| E1489 | CHEE | 4108 | Combustion Science | 1 | Combustion: flame aerodynamics, homogeneous, heterogeneous flames, pulverised coal ignition & combustion. Radiative heat transfer, furnaces, flames; furnace modelling. Formation, effects of pollutants. |
| E1492 | CHEE | 4019 | Optimisation in Process Engineering | 1 | Introductory concepts; optimality criteria. Typical chemical engineering problems. Single & multivariable unconstrained optimisation. Linear programming with applications. Single & mutivariable constrained optimisations. |
| E1830 | CHEE | 7101 | Interaction of Physical, Chemical & Biological Processes | 2 | Coupling of chemical, physical & biological systems; material & energy balances; steady state & unsteady state processes; industrial case studies. Emphasis on environmental & industrial applications. |
| E1832 | ENVM | 7101 | Regulatory & Legal Aspects of Sustainable Development | 2 | International conventions & laws relating to environment, sustainable development & interaction with trade (WTO) & Australian legal system. Introduction to law, history of law & various legal systems & notion of legal law. Major international conventions, |
| E1833 | CHEE | 7317 | Assessment of Environmental Impacts | 2 | Problem solving related to industrial-environmental issues; environmental impact assessment requirements; audit of pollution abatement strategies & environmental impacts of particular industries; group project. |
| E1835 | CHEE | 7318 | Environmental Management Project | 4 | Project on issue related to a particular industry or industry sector. |
| E1852 | CHEE | 7314 | Modelling of Environmental Systems | 2 | Principles of model development & solution for aquatic, atmospheric & other systems of environmental interest; lumped parameter & distributed parameter models; model validation; river modelling, estuary modelling; chemical equilibrium aspects; biological |
| E1858 | CHEE | 7303 | Modern Control Theory | 2 | Optimal control theory; adaptive control theory & applications; state space & matrix fraction description of multivariable systems; state estimation & stochastic control; singular value analysis & operability considerations; current trends in process cont |
| E1861 | CHEE | 7306 | Special Topics VI | 2 | Special topics in Chemical Engineering. |
| E1862 | CHEE | 7307 | Special Topics VII | 2 | Special topics in Chemical Engineering. |
| E1863 | CHEE | 7308 | Special Topics VIII | 2 | Special topics in Chemical Engineering. |
| E1864 | CHEE | 7309 | Special Topics IX | 2 | Special topics in Chemical Engineering. |
| E1865 | CHEE | 7310 | Special Topics X | 1 | Special topics in Chemical Engineering. |
| E1866 | CHEE | 7311 | Special Topics XI | 1 | Special topics in Chemical Engineering. |
| E1867 | CHEE | 7300 | Principles of Adsorption | 2 | Fundamental aspects of adsorption in porous media. Structure of adsorbent & mechanism of mass transfer within porous adsorbent. Kinetics of sorption in batch systems & dynamics of adsorption columns including chromatography. |
| E1889 | CHEE | 7312 | Combustion Engineering Science | 2 | Combustion: flame aerodynamics, homogeneous, heterogeneous flames, pulverised coal ignition & combustion; radiative heat transfer, furnaces, flames; furnace modelling; formation, effects of pollutants. |
| E1893 | CHEE | 7411 | Project or Thesis | 2 | Project or thesis in an area of chemical engineering. Students commencing in Sem 1 must enrol in CHEE7401. Students commencing in Sem 2 must enrol in CHEE7411. |
| E1893 | CHEE | 7401 | Project or Thesis | 2 | Project or thesis in an area of chemical engineering. Students commencing in Sem 1 must enrol in CHEE7401. Students commencing in Sem 2 must enrol in CHEE7411. |
| E1895 | CHEE | 7403 | Project or Thesis | 4 | Project or thesis in an area of chemical engineering. Students commencing in Sem 1 must enrol in CHEE7403. Students commencing in Sem 2 must enrol in CHEE7413. |
| E1895 | CHEE | 7413 | Project or Thesis | 4 | Project or thesis in an area of chemical engineering. Students commencing in Sem 1 must enrol in CHEE7403. Students commencing in Sem 2 must enrol in CHEE7413. |
| E1896 | CHEE | 7415 | Project or Thesis | 8 | Project or thesis in an area of chemical engineering. Students commencing in Sem 1 must enrol in CHEE7405. Students commencing in Sem 2 must enrol in CHEE7415. |
| E1896 | CHEE | 7405 | Project or Thesis | 8 | Project or thesis in an area of chemical engineering. Students commencing in Sem 1 must enrol in CHEE7405. Students commencing in Sem 2 must enrol in CHEE7415. |
| E1897 | CHEE | 7416 | Project or Thesis | 2 | Project or thesis in an area of chemical engineering. Students commencing in Sem 1 must enrol in CHEE7406. Students commencing in Sem 2 must enrol in CHEE7416. |
| E1897 | CHEE | 7406 | Project or Thesis | 2 | Project or thesis in an area of chemical engineering. Students commencing in Sem 1 must enrol in CHEE7406. Students commencing in Sem 2 must enrol in CHEE7416. |
| E1898 | CHEE | 7407 | Project or Thesis | 10 | Project or thesis in an area of chemical engineering. Students commencing in Sem 1 must enrol in CHEE7407. Students commencing in Sem 2 must enrol in CHEE7417. |
| E1898 | CHEE | 7417 | Project or Thesis | 10 | Project or thesis in an area of chemical engineering. Students commencing in Sem 1 must enrol in CHEE7407. Students commencing in Sem 2 must enrol in CHEE7417. |