Daily Schedule:
8:00am - Registration and coffee (1st day only)
8:30am - Session begins
5:00pm - Adjournment
Breakfast, two refreshment breaks and lunch are provided daily.
Description
Chemical engineering is at the heart of much of the chemical, oil, gas, and petrochemical industries. The chemical engineer is interested in the transportation and transformation of solids, liquids and gases, but must also be familiar with many of the other engineering disciplines including mechanical, electrical and instrumentation. Thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, mass transfer, and reaction engineering form the fundamentals of chemical engineering. Without these fundamentals, chemical engineers may not be able to understand the operation of process units and succeed in the proper design of chemical processes.
Objective
This course is designed to cover the basic concepts and fundamentals of chemical engineering and provide a basic understanding of these fundamentals to non-specialist, and a refresher to practising engineers, with examples that will be drawn from a range of process industries including oil and gas processing, petrochemicals, and chemical manufacturing.
Target Audience
Practising or lapsed chemical engineers wanting to refresh their fundamental knowledge.
All those working in the chemical, petrochemical, oil and process industries with a need to understand and discuss fundamental chemical engineering and technology issues with the chemical engineering specialists or other professionals. These will include:
- Process Development Engineers
- Manufacturing and Industrial Engineers
- Electrical Engineers
- Petroleum Engineers
- Process Engineers
- Mechanical Engineers
- Plastics & Material Engineers
- Civil Engineers
- Production Engineers
- Maintenance Engineers
- Food Scientists
- Environmental Engineers
- Chemists
- Chemical Engineering Technologists
- Environmental Technicians
- Maintenance Supervisors
- Laboratory Technicians
- Chemical Plant Operators
- Project Managers and Engineers
Program Outline (1.8 CEUs / 18 PDHs)
Day 1: Stoichiometry and Thermodynamics
- Dimensions and units
- Processes and process variables
- Basic chemical calculations
- Material balance
- Energy balance
- Combustion
- The laws of thermodynamics
- Thermodynamic properties
- Phase behaviour
- Equations of State
- Phase equilibriums
- Applications of thermodynamics
Day 2: Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer
- Fluid statics and its applications
- Basic equations and fluid flow
- Flow of compressible fluids
- Multiphase Flow
- Transportation of fluids
- Agitation & Mixing
- Conductive heat transfer
- Convective heat transfer
- Heat transfer to fluids
- Radiation heat transfer
- Heat-exchange applications
- Evaporation
Day 3: Mass Transfer and Chemical Reaction Engineering
- Diffusive mass transfer
- Convective mass transfer
- Mass transfer between phases
- Distillation
- Leaching & Extraction
- Adsorption
- Drying of solids
- Basic definitions of kinetics and reactions
- Introduction to reactor design
- Design for single reactions
- Mixing of fluids
- Fluid Particle reactions
- Solid-catalyst reactions
After Attending This Course You Will Be Able To:
- Understand the principles upon which the basic chemical engineering operations are based
- Make basic chemical engineering calculations on simple operations
- Recognise how the basic principles can be applied to more complex and unfamiliar chemical engineering operations and processes
- Develop systematic approaches to the solutions of chemical engineering problems
- Discuss fundamental chemical engineering and technology issues with the chemical engineering specialists or other professionals
Required Material
InstructorKamran Akbarzadeh, PhD, P.Eng., PMP
Dr. Kamran Akbarzadeh is a Senior Research Scientist and Flow Assurance Research Team Leader at Schlumberger. He has over 12 years of research and industrial experience in fluid flow, phase behavior, and flow assurance with over 20 journal publications and conference presentations. Over his 6-year career with Schlumberger, Dr. Akbarzadeh has managed many commercial and research projects.
Dr. Akbarzadeh is able to transfer the technical knowledge in a simple language that is understandable by both technical and non-technical audience. He has taught Chemical Engineering courses such as Fundamentals of Thermodynamics, Applied Thermodynamics, Applied Mathematics, and Transport Phenomena to undergraduate students. He has also taught short courses and seminars related to flow assurance and phase behavior at his work place.
Dr. Akbarzadeh is a Professional Engineer licensed with APEGGA and a Project Management Professional licensed with PMI. He holds B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. all in Chemical Engineering.
Toastmasters International Organization recognizes Dr. Akbarzadeh as an advanced communicator and advanced leader. Dr. Akbarzadeh’s vision is to passionately add value to people around the world and inspire them to live and lead on purpose.
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