Heat and Mass Transfer -- Fall 2002

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MWF 10:30-11:20,  5403 Wean Hall

Prof. Jim Schneider

Heat and Mass Transfer in Chemical Engineering

To design effective chemical processes, chemical engineers must be able to understand and predict the flow of fluids, heat, and solutes in unit operations.  The study of these transport phenomena is a cornerstone of the chemical engineering discipline, and it sets our curriculum apart from those of related disciplines like chemistry and physics.  We will build on concepts developed in your Fluid Mechanics course (control volumes, constitutive equations, dimensional analysis) to describe the flow of heat and material in unit operations.  A complete understanding of heat and mass transfer processes requires mastery of the physics that underlie constitutive equations and mathematical methods required to solve systems of mass, energy, and momentum balances.  You will find that many similarities exist when formulating and solving heat and mass transfer problems.   Special emphasis will be placed on molecular-level insight in transport processes, computer-aided numerical methods (MathCad, etc.), and heat and mass transfer issues in semiconductor processing and biological systems.