Transport Process I (ChE 330):

Course Syllabus

Winter 2003

Instructor: René M. Overney, Office Benson 245

e-mail: roverney@u.washington.edu; phone 543-4353

Teaching Lan Cao, Office Benson 321

Assistants: e-mail:, lcao@u.washington.edu; phone 685-2440

Jon Ladd, Office Benson 320

e-mail: jnseagul@u.washington.edu; phone 685-3627

Course Textbook: "Transport Phenomena", 2nd Ed., R.B. Bird, W.E. Stewart and E.N. Lightfoot, John Wiley, New York 2002

Schedule:

Lecture: M-W-Fr: 9:30-10:20, RAI 121

Recitation Session Tuesday 9:30-10:20, RAI 121

Office Hours: Overney: W 12:30-2:00

Fr 12:30-2:00

Lan: Tu 13:30-3:00

Fr 13:30-3:00

Jon: Mo 2:30-4:00

W 2:30-4:00

Jan. 20 Holiday

Jan. 24 (RAI 121) First Hour Exam

Feb. 17 Holiday

Feb. 21 (RAI 121) Second Hour Exam

Mar. 14 (RAI 121) Third Hour Exam

Examinations: 3 one-hour comprehensive exams (open books). All examinations are required and there will be no make-ups. Missing an examination or not turning one in is graded as a failure (0.0).

Homework: weekly, assigned on Mondays (see course WEB page: http://courses.washington.edu/overney/ChemE330.html), due the following week on Tuesday at the beginning of the class, and returned (graded) in the following recitation session. Solutions will be posted on the course WEB page. Late homework will not be accepted for credit.

Problem Session (Tuesday): Attendance is mandatory.

During the Problem Session, homework sets and exams will be worked and discussed, and new material will be presented.

Grading:

Homework 10 %

Exam 1-3 each 30 %

Remarks:

If any student has a learning disability or other special needs, please inform the instructor the first week of class so we can make special arrangements to accommodate you.

Teaching Goals and Objectives

Course Objectives

• Understand the physics of the molecular transport processes and the rate laws; understand and know how to exploit the analogies between the diffusive transport phenomena of viscous flow, heat conduction and species diffusion.
• Understand the construction and use of shell balances for setting up and solving transport problems, particularly those involving viscous flow
• Understand the origin and use of the Navier-Stokes equations and their simplification to specific flow situations.
• Understand the concepts of turbulence, friction and drag and their application to flow in conduits, packed beds and around submerged objects.
• Understand the application of mechanical energy balances (Bernoulli analysis) to practical piping, pumping and flow problems.

Topics Covered

1. Transport Processes for Heat, Mass and Momentum
1. Modes of transport: diffusion, convection and radiation
2. The phenomenological Rate Laws for diffusive transport
3. The transport coefficients
4. The conservation principles: "shell balances" for flux distributions and profiles
5. Examples of steady, one-dimensional transport problems
6. Extension of rate equations to three dimensions and curvilinear coordinates
7. Extension of conservation equations for heat and mass to three dimensions and curvilinear coordinates

2. Fluid Mechanics
1. General differential equations of fluid mechanics (Navier-Stokes equations)
2. Some solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations (by eliminating terms)
3. Turbulence
4. Dynamic similarity and dimensional analysis
5. Bernoulli analysis and application