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Process Analysis and Synthesis
- Developed & delivered materials from 10-years experience
- Developed a categorized list of 1,000 published references in process design and taught students how to access them
- Developed software in FORTRAN and BASIC for
execution on six dedicated workstations in a purpose-created room
Process Design Project
- Rather than all students doing the same project, each team was given their own industry sector process plant.
- Examples of plants chosen were relevant to
NZ's resources: e.g. aluminum from alumina, phosphate fertilizer,
dairy milk processing, oil and gas processing, steel by electric
furnace from ironsands, cement-making, pulp & paper, oil refining
- Over the academic year, the teams each had
to produce Process Flow Diagrams, Heat and Material Balance, size
major equipment, propose control schema, do screening-level Hazard
Analysis, present their project to Faculty
- Had each team of four choose their own lead
to coordinate the division of tasks. I met weekly with just the 12
leads, to make them accountable to consolidate questions, but
accompanying lectures & tests were for the whole class
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