Announcements
11/19: Soemantri Widagdo's presentation from Monday has been
posted on the Handouts page. An article by Michael Levin regarding ethics courses has also been posted.
11/16: The key for the heat integration study problem has been posted.
11/12: Solutions for problems 1-4 for HW
#6 (PFR with direct distillation) have been posted. Section homework sets S3-S6
and the heat integration study problem are available on the homework page.
Also, the HDA process information (under HW #4) has been updated.
11/10: Statistics for HW #4 have been posted.
10/29: Section Homework set #2 has been posted. The base case specifications for the final design project have been posted on the handouts page.
10/28: Section Homework set #1 (will be handed out in section tomorrow and due in section on 11/10) has been posted.
10/28: Homework #6 has been posted. The updated HDA process information (handed out in lecture on 10/26) can be accessed on the Homework page under Homework #4.
The final design project guidelines handed out in yesterday's recitation have been posted on the Handouts page. The revised base case specifications
for the final design project will be posted later today.
10/23: The reactor problems from recitation have been posted.
10/23: Statistics for Midterm #1 are the following:
- Avg:65.4 Std Dev:11.1 Max:93.0 Min:32.0
10/21: The revised version of Homework #5 has been posted. Also, solutions to Homework #4 have been posted.
10/19: Homework #5 has been posted.
10/13: The handouts page has been updated.
10/13: Ground rules for Midterm #1 are the following:
- Closed book
- Calculator and 8.5" X 11" paper with notes written on front and back allowed
- Material through 10/09 lecture is fair game. This includes decision-making and materials balances for Levels 1-3, financial basics such as NPV and DCFRR, sizing a reactor and consideration
of heat effects, material in handouts (e.g. mechanical energy balance, sizing a compressor), and vapor recovery systems (e.g. flash separator).
10/12: Homework #4 Problem #6 has a typo- in the flow rate
specifications, the first component is listed as benzene, C6H6. It should actually
be ethane, C2H6. This makes the component list identical to what is found in
the tutorial.
10/07: General comments regarding Homework #2 are available on the Homework page.
10/06: Clarifications have been added to HW #4. Please see the Homework link for the revised problem statement.
10/06: All of the Douglas chapters and appendices that will be needed for the course are now posted.
10/05: Homework #4 Has been posted. Note that supplemental process information that is needed to complete the homework has also been posted.
9/28: Access to HYSYS has been restored. The last day to turn in Homework #2 is this Friday, October 2nd.
9/28: Homework #3 has been posted. The assigned reading from Douglas is also available. See the handouts page for material that has been distributed during
recitation. Also, please welcome our 4th TA, Pornkamol "Apple" Unrean. Her office hours and contact information has been posted.
9/23: Homework #2 has been posted. Handouts from lecture are also available.
9/15: Most office hours have been posted. Homework #1 is also available.
9/9: Office hours will be announced soon.
Lead Instructor and Office Hours
Jeffrey J. Derby derby@umn.edu TBD
Lecture Hours
MWF 9:05 AM - 9:55 AM, AmundH B75
Recitation Instructors and Office Hours
Lanny D. Schmidt schmi001@umn.edu TTh 9:00 - 10:30 AmundH 439
Lloyd R. White white006@umn.edu MWF 10:30 - 11:30 AmundH 354
Scott A. Roberts roberts@cems.umn.edu M 1:30 - 3:30, W 10:30 - 12:00 AmundH 282
Recitation Hours
Section 2 9:05-9:55 TTh AkerH 215 White
Section 3 10:10-11:00 TTh CivE 212 Derby
Section 4 8:00-8:50 TTh AmundH 156 Schmidt
Section 5 2:30-3:20 TTh Kolthoff 132 Roberts
Teaching Assistants and Office Hours
Reetam Chakrabarti chakr027@umn.edu T 4:00 - 6:00 AmundH 432
Elizabeth Mallon mallo066@umn.edu TTh 3:30 - 4:30 AmundH 219
Ana Torres Rippa torres@cems.umn.edu F 3:00 - 5:00 AmundH 282
Pornkamol "Apple" Unrean unrea001@umn.edu T 12:00 - 2:00 AmundH 210