Catalog information

• Prerequisites: CHME-200
• Corequisites: MATH-203
• Credit hours: 4 contact, 4 credit
• Terms offered: Winter, Spring
• Description: An introduction to chemical engineering thermodynamics. This course will focus on developing the theory of thermodynamics and its applications to chemical engineering. Energy and entropy balances will be utilized for analyzing small and large scale processes with multiple streams to compute workloads, energy exchange, and energy efficiency. Beginning with small unit operations, including pumps, compressors, turbines, and heat exchangers, larger systems will be developed and analyzed including power cycles and refrigeration cycles. Computation of thermodynamic properties for ideal and non-ideal systems will be discussed using charts, tables, and equations of state. The course is designed for the sophomore level and will continue with a secondary thermodynamics course during the junior year.