Chemical and Thermal Processes
Introduction
Chemical and Thermal Processes starts with the basics of stoichiometry and thermodynamics as covered in many Introduction to Chemical Engineering courses. It continues with topics typically covered in an advanced Engineering Thermodynamics course and in a Chemical Reactor Engineering course. The course material tied to copyrighted texts and commercial software was developed over a number of years, but development accelerated during the end of the 2019/2020 academic year, and the 2020/2021 academic year. During this time, the COVID pandemic forced the need for remote and asynchronous instruction for students stuck at home in almost every state in the United States and other countries throughout the world.
The existing course websites, with links to the videos, are:
- E82, Chemical and Thermal Processes
- E133, Chemical Reaction Engineering
- E134, Advanced Engineering Thermodynamics
- The Stats parts of E80
We are planning on rescripting and reshooting all of the videos, reorganizing and rewriting the websites, and converting all of the examples, problem sets, projects, and solutions to creative commons and open-source software.
The link to the Chemical and Thermal Processes website is here. It is currently a very rough skeletal outline but will see rapid development over the next several months.