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Mathematical principles of process dynamics and control. Derivation and solution of differential equations describing the behaviour of typical chemical engineering process units. Mathematical analysis and design of control systems. Digital and sampled data control systems.

Application of chemical engineering principles to selected operations encountered in industrial waste water treatment. The course highlights the removal of suspended solids biological treatment, and chemical treatment methods.

Development of desalination technology. Basic principles of desalination. Theory and practice of the following desalination plants: Multistage flash distillation, multiple effect boiling, Reverse osmosis, electrodialysis, solar distillation, freezing. Dual-purpose desalination plants. Main problems in desalination (e.g. scale formations and corrosion). Cost considerations, comparative studies of some desalination plants.

Gas-liquid systems, solid-liquid systems, homogeneous slurries, heterogeneous slurries, long distance transportation in pipelines, gas-solid pneumatic transportation. Complex flow systems. Modelling and computational aid in multiphase flow.

Layout of local petroleum industry, phase equilibria concepts, water-hydrocarbon systems, hydrate formation, amine treatment, carbonate treatment, liquifaction, liquids recovery.

Advanced treatment of corrosion engineering with emphasis on industrial local problems. Atmospheric and seawater corrosion. Cathodic and anodic protection. Corrosion: Protection and inhibition.

This course focuses on the design and modeling of various types of catalytic reactors used in Petroleum Refining Industry. Emphasis will be focused on the following refining operations: Catalytic cracking, catalytic hydrocracking, catalytic hydrotreating, catalytic reforming, catalytic isomerization, catalytic alkylation, and catalytic polymerization.

Types of membrane separation processes. Gas permeation in a membrane. Dialysis. Reverse osmosis. Ultrafiltration membrane process. Gel permeation chromatography. Membrane manufacture. Membrane physical and chemical properties.

An upper division of graduate technical elective treating topics in Engineering mostly not covered in other courses, chosen at the discretion of the Graduate Program Committee.

Introduction to statistical mechanical theories. Borownian motion. Dynamics of flexible polymers in ideal solutions. Multichain systems. Visoelasticity theories. Dynamic of a Polymer in a fixed network. Ridged rodlike polymers in ideal solutions. Ridged rodlike polymers in semidilute solutions. Ridged rodlike polymers in concentrated solutions.

Thermodynamics and energy conservation, energy and separation processes, optimization of heat exchanger systems, thermally coupled distillation systems, heat pumps, hybrid desalination systems, economic analysis of technical solution to energy conservation problems, term paper.

Refinery configurations. Characterizations of crude oils and products. Coking. Catalytic cracking. Catalytic hydrocracking. Hydroprocessing and Hydrotreating. Reforming. Product blending. Computer simulation of refinery processes.

Estimation procedures for properties of gases and liquids. Critical properties PVT, heat capacities. Thermodynamic properties, vapor pressure, surface tension, viscosities, thermal conductivities and diffusion coefficients. Application to industrial problems.

Essence of the problem. Thermodynamics of phase equilibrium. Fugacity calculation of thermodynamic properties of fluids using equation of state. Intermolecular forces and theory of corresponding states. Property changes on mixing phase rule. Gibbs Duhem equation. Fundamental equations of, calculation of vapor liquid, liquid- liquid-solubility stability. Application and impact of data precision on design.

An upper division of graduate technical elective treating topics in mostly not covered in other courses, chosen at the discretion of the Graduate Program Committee.