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Programme: B.Eng. Petrochemical Engineering ×
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PCE 302
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At the end of this course, the students should be able to: 1. develop rate expressions for different chemical reactors; 2. determine reaction order and activation energy; 3. apply the theories of reaction rates and their...
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Rate expressions for chemical reactions law of mass action. Constant volume reversible,
irreversible, parallel and consecutive reactions. Reaction order and its determination.
Variable volume reactions Arrhenius equation and activation energy. The theories of
reaction rates, especially the collision theory and theory of absolute reaction rates.
Homogeneous and heterogeneous catalytic reactions and their kinetics. Kinetics of
electrochemical processes. Equilibria in ionic solutions.
PCE 301
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At the end of this course, the students should be able to: 1. apply first, second and third law to ideal and real gases; 2. calculate heat requirements for reacting and non-reacting systems; 3. apply the concept of fugac...
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First law and the energetics of chemical reactions. Second law, calculation of entropy
changes. Definitions of thermodynamic potentials. Heat of mixing. Fugacity, free energy
and work function. Chemical potentials and affinity of reactions. Equilibrium in chemical
reaction systems. Equilibrium constant of a reaction. Third law. Thermal data.
thermodynamics of electrochemical cells. Work production from chemically reacting
systems. Phase relations and thermodynamics of solutions. Equilibrium in
heterogeneous reactions.
PCE 501
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At the end of this course, the students should be able to: 1. apply fundamental skills in performing synthesis of organic compounds listed in the course content above; 2. apply fundamental skills in the isolation and pur...
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above;
3. can prepare a flow diagram and identify critical/important points in an organic synthesis
procedure of the process listed above; and
4. can prepare reaction schemes using the appropriate software.
Course Contents
Raw materials and their processing techniques for ethylene, acetylene, synthesis gas,
and liquid hydrocarbons; properties of olefins, thermo-dynamic stability of hydrocarbons,
olefin production; use of polymerization reactions, raw materials from aromatic
hydrocarbon, chlorination, nitration, oxidation, hydrogenation aromatization,
isomerization reactions. Synthesis on basis of acetylene, carbon monoxide, and synthesis
gas.