CHEMMAT 205 : Process Design 1
Engineering
2025 Semester Two (1255) (15 POINTS)
Course Prescription
Course Overview
This is a core course for the Chemical and Materials Engineering degree and covers the following three major sections:
(1) Unit Operations, Process Diagrams, Health & Safety in Chemical Engineering: Introduction to Chemical Engineering Design, Economics and sustainability considerations in chemical process design. Introduction to Unit Operations, Block flow diagrams, process flow diagrams. Safety in Chemical engineering.
(2) Mechanics of Materials in Process Design: In this section, students will learn the important concepts and techniques involved in solving common design problems highly relevant to chemical and process engineering industry. The topics include design of axially loaded members, circular members in torsion, thin-wall pressure vessels, members in bending. It also cover stress analysis under combined loadings and stress transformation.
(3) Introduction to Materials Selection: in this section, the methods involving materials selection during the design process is presented. Students will learn to perform a material selection for designing a load-bearing system by balancing the m materials processability, its properties and cost.
The course will be delivered through lectures, tutorials and group discussions.
Capabilities Developed in this Course
| Capability 1: | People and Place |
| Capability 3: | Knowledge and Practice |
| Capability 6: | Communication |
| Capability 7: | Collaboration |
Learning Outcomes
- Use the fundamentals of unit operations and flow sheeting to create new process diagrams and evaluate existing process diagrams of chemical processing plants. (Capability 3.1)
- Illustrate and analyse health and safety concepts and issues in process design. (Capability 1.1)
- Solve static mechanics problems to be able to perform a mechanical safety analysis and critically evaluate the design of process equipment. (Capability 3.1 and 3.2)
- Use the fundamentals of solid mechanics to design engineering components and evaluate the existing design of chemical processing components. (Capability 3.1)
- Perform a basic materials selection for a given design by balancing the material process-ability, its properties, and cost. (Capability 3.2)
- Demonstrate through actual application and practice the ability to work in teams, write technical reports and make presentations. (Capability 3.2, 6.1 and 7.1)
Assessments
| Assessment Type | Percentage | Classification |
|---|---|---|
| Tests | 20% | Individual Test |
| Project | 30% | Group & Individual Coursework |
| Online homework | 10% | Individual Coursework |
| Final exam | 40% | Individual Examination |
| 4 types | 100% |
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |||||
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Students must sit the exam to pass the course. Otherwise, a DNS (did not sit) result will be returned.
Students must achieve overall marks of 50% or higher to pass the course.
Late submissions are not allowed for the Quizzes, Tests, and the Final Exam. Late submission penalties will be applied for Project Reports. The penalties will be listed on Canvas.
Workload Expectations
This course is a standard 15 point course and students are expected to spend 10 hours per week involved in each 15 point course that they are enrolled in.
For each week in this course, you can expect 36 hours of lectures, 4 hours of tutorials, 60 hours of reading and thinking about the content, and 50 hours of work on assignments and test/exam preparation.
Delivery Mode
Campus Experience
Attendance is expected at scheduled activities including labs/tutorials to complete components of the course.
Lectures will be available as recordings. Other learning activities including tutorials/labs will not be available as recordings.
The course will not include live online events including group discussions/tutorials.
Attendance on campus is required for the test.
The activities for the course are scheduled as a standard weekly timetable.
Learning Resources
Course materials are made available in a learning and collaboration tool called Canvas which also includes reading lists and lecture recordings (where available).
Please remember that the recording of any class on a personal device requires the permission of the instructor.
Textbook: Mechanics of Materials, by Russell Hibbeler.
Health & Safety
Students must ensure they are familiar with their Health and Safety responsibilities, as described in the university's Health and Safety policy.
Student Feedback
At the end of every semester students will be invited to give feedback on the course and teaching through a tool called SET or Qualtrics. The lecturers and course co-ordinators will consider all feedback and respond with summaries and actions.
Your feedback helps teachers to improve the course and its delivery for future students.
Class Representatives in each class can take feedback to the department and faculty staff-student consultative committees.
SET-2024 shows 100% GA, largely positive.
One student suggested perhaps too many assessments. Another requests daily practice and model answers in Module 2, which will be considered in 2025. We will see how we better deal with this next year.
Otherwise, no major changes will be made in 2025.
Academic Integrity
The University of Auckland will not tolerate cheating, or assisting others to cheat, and views cheating in coursework, tests and examinations as a serious academic offence. The work that a student submits for grading must be the student's own work, reflecting their learning. Where work from other sources is used, it must be properly acknowledged and referenced. A student's assessed work may be reviewed against electronic source material using computerised detection mechanisms. Upon reasonable request, students may be required to provide an electronic version of their work for computerised review.
Class Representatives
Class representatives are students tasked with representing student issues to departments, faculties, and the wider university. If you have a complaint about this course, please contact your class rep who will know how to raise it in the right channels. See your departmental noticeboard for contact details for your class reps.
Inclusive Learning
All students are asked to discuss any impairment related requirements privately, face to face and/or in written form with the course coordinator, lecturer or tutor.
Student Disability Services also provides support for students with a wide range of impairments, both visible and invisible, to succeed and excel at the University. For more information and contact details, please visit the Student Disability Services’ website http://disability.auckland.ac.nz
Special Circumstances
If your ability to complete assessed coursework is affected by illness or other personal circumstances outside of your control, contact a member of teaching staff as soon as possible before the assessment is due.
If your personal circumstances significantly affect your performance, or preparation, for an exam or eligible written test, refer to the University’s aegrotat or compassionate consideration page https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/academic-information/exams-and-final-results/during-exams/aegrotat-and-compassionate-consideration.html.
This should be done as soon as possible and no later than seven days after the affected test or exam date.
Learning Continuity
In the event of an unexpected disruption we undertake to maintain the continuity and standard of teaching and learning in all your courses throughout the year. If there are unexpected disruptions the University has contingency plans to ensure that access to your course continues and your assessment is fair, and not compromised. Some adjustments may need to be made in emergencies. You will be kept fully informed by your course co-ordinator, and if disruption occurs you should refer to the University Website for information about how to proceed.
Student Charter and Responsibilities
The Student Charter assumes and acknowledges that students are active participants in the learning process and that they have responsibilities to the institution and the international community of scholars. The University expects that students will act at all times in a way that demonstrates respect for the rights of other students and staff so that the learning environment is both safe and productive. For further information visit Student Charter https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/forms-policies-and-guidelines/student-policies-and-guidelines/student-charter.html.
Disclaimer
Elements of this outline may be subject to change. The latest information about the course will be available for enrolled students in Canvas.
In this course you may be asked to submit your coursework assessments digitally. The University reserves the right to conduct scheduled tests and examinations for this course online or through the use of computers or other electronic devices. Where tests or examinations are conducted online remote invigilation arrangements may be used. The final decision on the completion mode for a test or examination, and remote invigilation arrangements where applicable, will be advised to students at least 10 days prior to the scheduled date of the assessment, or in the case of an examination when the examination timetable is published.