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Introduction to Chemical Engineering (E20) Stanford

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Description: Overview of chemical engineering through discussion and engineering analysis of physical and chemical processes. Topics: overall staged separations, material and energy balances, concepts of rate processes, energy and mass transport, and kinetics of chemical reactions. Applications of these concepts to areas of current technological importance: biotechnology, energy, production of chemicals, materials processing, and purification.
Resources: OpenCourseware from MIT, UC Berkeley, Stanford & many other of the World's finest University's.

Language: English

Professors: Michael Williams

Units: 21

Lesson content
  • Lec 1 Introduction to Chemical Engineering  
  • Lec 2 modern oil refinery  
    • Refinery Crude Oil Distillation Process  
  • Lec 3 comparing the different methods and systems ...  
  • Lec 4 balancing equations and the conservation of mass  
  • Lec 5 design and function of an apheresis machine.  
  • Lec 6 overview of the apheresis machine.  
  • Lec 7 process of making high fructose corn syrup  
  • Lec 8 development and design of a glucose isomerase plant used to make high fructose corn syrup.  
  • Lec 9 isomeriser and chemical reactions within a glucose isomerase plant.  
  • Lec 10 energy conservation in relation to the high fructose corn syrup plant  
  • Lec 11 energy conservation & design of heat exchangers  
  • Lec 12 conduction, convection & actual design of the heat exchanger  
  • Lec 13 scaling, focusing on dimensionless analysis.  
  • Lec 14 scaling by touching upon a pharmacokinetics problem  
  • Lec 15 pharmacokinetics by using a virtual human body  
  • Lec 16 pharmacokinetics model using a virtual human "tank"  
  • Lec 17 biomedical engineering and the functions and anatomy of the kidney  
  • Lec 18 functioning of the kidney, focusing upon the single nephron glomeruli filtration rate, SNGFR.  
  • Lec 19 kidney dialysis machine and clinic.  
  • Lec 20 interactions between chemical engineering and the environment.  
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