SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry · Courses
ECH
22 courses with the subject ECH, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
ECH 132Orientatn&Intro to Chem Eng I1
One hour lecture per week or three-hour lab/field trip per week. Introduction to chemical engineering as a general field of study and broad career path. Topics covered include broad field and applications of chemical engineering. sustainability, engineering ethics, laboratory and process safety, resumes and interviewing, and teamwork.
One hours of lecture or three hours of workshop per week. Introduction to chemical engineering as a general field of study and broad career path. Topics covered include basic engineering calculations, statistics, engineering design, computer programming (MATLAB) and process simulators, ethics, sustainability and professional responsibility. The place of experiential learning such as research experience or industrial internships and co-op programs will be covered.
Principles of classical thermodynamics applied to engineering practice. First and second laws; heat effects; property functions and their correlation; physical and chemical equilibrium; fugacity; solutions and mixtures; power and refrigeration cycles. Thermodynamic analysis of chemically reacting processes and systems via case studies and computer simulation applied to various types of reactor systems. Prerequisites: FCH152, ECH202.
Field. Twelve weeks full time employment approved by the department with an industrial or research partner acquired through on-campus interviews or other means. The student and the supervisor set goals and expectations for the internship. The students and supervisors also provide feedback on the performance of the student.
Three hours of lecture per week. Thermodynamic properties of pure fluids and mixtures of fluids; vapor-liquid equilibrium, theory and applications of solution thermodynamics, chemical reaction equilibria, and colloidal systems. Prerequisite: ECH 212 Engineering Thermodynamics Credit will not be given for both ECH 312 and ECH 512
This course covers fluid statics, principles of continuity and momentum equation, energy balance and Bernoulli’s equation, and friction in fluid flow. Students will learn how to apply energy balance and momentum balance to flow systems including laminar and turbulent pipe flows, steady and unsteady flow of liquids and gases in pipelines, ducts, and porous media. Students will learn pumps, their characteristics and calculations. Flow measurement devices, Non-Newtonian fluids and flow, and movement of particles in fluid media will also be covered. Prerequisites: ECH 202, APM 485
Three hours of lecture per week. Principles of heat and mass transfer as applied to the bioprocess industries. Topics include conduction, convective heat and mass transfer, diffusion of both steady-state and transient situations, analogies for heat and mass transfer, boundary layers, porous media transport, heat and mass transfer analyses. Discussion of specific bioprocess examples. Prerequisites: ECH202, ECH322.
1.5 hours of lecture and 4.5 hours of laboratory per week. Experiments on fluid mechanics like pressure drop and flow rate measurement in pipe flow, downstream units such as centrifugal pump operation, membrane filtration, adsorption/chromatography, centrifugation/ sedimentation, extraction, and other process operation including heat exchange, drying, etc. Data acquisition and parametric analysis. Planning and execution of laboratory experiments. Report writing and seminar presentation. This course is a junior-level course in the PSE and BPE fields of study, which makes use of campus resources available to ensure academic success. The course is designed for students to gain practical knowledge in the areas of transport phenomena and unit operations by performing experiments. The skills and information learned in this class will help students in many of their future courses and in their professional careers. Prerequisites: ECH 212.
Three hours of lecture per week. Fundamental concepts in chemical engineering reactions, basic reaction rate theory, steady-state approximation, transition-state theory, reaction mechanisms of chemical reactions, analysis of kinetic data. Prerequisites: APM 485 and ECH 312.
Three hours of lecture per week. Steps of process design, engineering economic analysis, estimation of capital investment, operating costs, profitability measures, evaluation of alternatives, inflation. Modeling and computer simulation of process units and systems; use of software. Design exercises and case studies. Prerequisites: APM 485 and ECH 202 SUNY ESF | 322 | Course Catalog
Presents an introduction to the principles of process control. Linear analysis, LaPlace transforms, and nonlinear simulation are presented and applied to feedback, and feedforward control. Examples of process simulation, accuracy and stability of control are drawn from paper industry processes. Prerequisite: APM 485
Three hours of lecture per week. This course will provide the basics of design and modeling of chemical and bioprocess systems. Student will learn use of software packages (e.g., SuperPro Designer, Aspen Plus) to design, model and simulate chemical and bioprocess flow sheets, model complex process simulations under continuous or batch mode, accessing databases for properties of chemicals, equipment sizing, material and energy balances of integrated processes, throughput analysis, detailed cost analysis, overall techno-economic evaluation and sensitivity analysis. Spring. Prerequisites: BPE 300 and ECH202, OR Instructor's Permission Note: Credit will not be given for both ECH 380 and ECH 580
Three hours of lecture per week. Topics include fluidization, equilibrium stage operation, distillation, evaporation, gas absorption, design of packed and tray towers, use of process simulation software (e.g. CHEMCAD). Prerequisite: ECH 322
Main topics of coverage include conversion and reactor sizing, isothermal and non-sothermal reactor peration/design for flow and batch systems, multiple reactions, introduction to heterogeneous reactor design, sustainability and stability, reactor runaway, reactive hazard and process safety.
Three hours of lecture per week. Quality by design of chemical engineering products range from specialty chemicals to devices that perform chemical transformations. This course integrates the steps of product design from brainstorming and concept selection through design and manufacturing. Students will be taught and practice using the basic tools and principles of chemical / biochemical product design, including TRIZ, house of quality, robust design, design for manufacturability, FMEA and Six Sigma. Other topics include multi-generational product planning, sustainability and life cycle analysis, basic economic evaluations, risk management, an introduction to entrepreneurship and new business development, as well as intellectual property and freedom-to-operate assessments. Case studies drawn from industry will also be illustrated.
1.5 hours of lecture per week and 4.5 hours of laboratory per week. Experimental design, data acquisition, and statistical analysis and interpretation of data. Professional communications with lab reports and presentations. The course is designed to help students acquire practical engineering knowledge in the areas of transport phenomena and unit operations by designing and performing experiments on material covered in earlier courses. Prerequisites: ECH 324, ECH 422, and ECH 442.
Individual study, lecture and/or lab, 1 to 12 hours per week. The student is assigned a research problem in chemical engineering. The student must make a systematic survey of available literature on the assigned problem. Emphasis is on application of correct research technique rather than on discovery of results of commercial importance. The information obtained in the literature survey, along with the data developed as a result of the investigation, is to be presented as a technical report. Prerequisites: consent of instructor
Three hours of lecture per week. Thermodynamic properties of pure fluids and mixtures of fluids; vapor-liquid equilibrium, theory and applications of solution thermodynamics, chemical reaction equilibria, and colloidal systems. Statistical mechanics preliminaries. Spring. Credit will not be given for both ECH 312 and ECH 512
Three hours of lecture per week and one hour of discussion every two weeks. This course will provide the basics of design and modeling to conduct commercial scale feasibility and techno- economic analysis of agricultural, chemical and bioprocess systems. Student will learn use of software packages (e.g., SuperPro Designer, Aspen Plus) to design, model and simulate chemical and bioprocess flow sheets, model complex process simulations under continuous or batch mode, accessing databases for properties of chemicals, equipment sizing, material and energy balances of integrated processes, throughput analysis, detailed cost analysis, overall techno- economic evaluation and hot spot analysis. Spring. Prerequisites: Mass and Energy Balance, Heat Transfer & Unit Operations, OR Instructor's Permission Note: Credit will not be given for both BPE 380 and BPE 580 EFB - ENVIRONMENTAL AND FOREST BIOLOGY