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  • 1.00 - 3.00 Credits

    Students register for this course each semester that they officially participate in a full-time cooperative work experience.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Original research or design in chemical engineering or related field.
  • 1.00 - 3.00 Credits

    Restricted to students in the Honors Program working on an honors degree. Prerequisites: Instructor Consent.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Introductory course in biochemical engineering and bioprocessing. Cell biology, enzyme kinetics, bioreactors, bioseparations and bioprocessing in relation to the medical, pharmaceutical, environmental, and biochemical industries. Prerequisites: 'C' or better in (CHEM 2310 OR CHEM 2311) AND Full Major status in Chemical Engineering Corequisites: 'C' or better in CH EN 3603
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course focuses on atmospheric-pressure, industrial combustion. Topics include safety, environmental impact, energy efficiency, fuels, combustion chemistry, fluid flow, and heat transfer. Advanced topics include computational fluid dynamics, atomization of liquid fuels, noise, and testing. Applications include flare gas recovery, biogas flaring, process flares, process heaters and burners, boiler burners, thermal oxidizers, metallurgy, and equipment fabrication. Prerequisites: "C" or better in (CH EN 3353 AND CH EN 3453) AND Full Major status in Chemical Engineering.
  • 3.00 Credits

    A broad introduction to combustion including stoichiometry, equilibrium, mixing, heat transfer, kinetics, heterogeneous combustion, flames, confined flames, and practical applications. Extensive use is made of computer programs for calculation of equilibrium, kinetics, and confined flames. Factors affecting pollutant formation and control are emphasized. Prerequisites: "C" or better in (CH EN 3603 AND CH EN 3553) AND Full Major status in Chemical Engineering.
  • 3.00 Credits

    The first part will involve characterization of the reservoir from analysis of logs, geostatics, and simple modeling. The second part will involve detailed simulation based on the governing equations for flow in porous media, discretization methods, implicit and explicit solutions, matrix assembly and linear solvers, well models, single-phase flow, two-phase flow, three-phase flow, assembling a simulator, geological models and upscaling, commercial simulators, and examples.
  • 3.00 Credits

    The relationship of energy to our economy and society, including its environmental impacts. The nature of energy-related impacts, their sources, and existing and evolving strategies for their abatement and control. Environmental consideration in the production, transportation, and processing aspects of coal and petroleum. Topics include energy sources, consumption, economic and environmental impacts, including: air pollution, surface water pollution and subsurface pollution analysis. Public-domain software will be used to study realistic environmental problems. Prerequisites: "C" or better in (MATH 2250 AND PHYS 2220 AND CH EN 2300 AND CH EN 2450 AND CH EN 2800) AND Full Major status in CH EN.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Provides petroleum-engineering students with the ability (1) to understand the fundamental terms principles, and tools of petroleum geoscience in order to communicate with other professionals and to comprehend petroleum geoscience reports and discussions, and (2) to understand how various disciplines and methods of geoscience are integrated to characterize and evaluate hydrocarbon basins and prospects.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course covers oil and gas separation, processing, transportation, and refining. An introduction to petroleum characterization is provided, along with methods of petroleum classification. Technologies for oil and gas separation are reviewed, along with required processing for transport by pipeline, rail, truck, and ship. Pipeline design for transport of oils, natural gas, and refined products will be discussed. Introductory reviews of petroleum refining processes will be covered, including: distillation, catalytic and thermal cracking, hydroprocessing, alkylation, reforming, and isomerization. Prerequisites: "C" or better in (CH EN 3353 AND CH EN 3453 AND CH EN 3853) AND Full Major status in CH EN.