(541d) Incorporating Laboratory Pilot Plant Data and Customized Software Simulations into Chemical Engineering Design Education at Vanderbilt
AIChE Annual Meeting
2018
2018 AIChE Annual Meeting
Education Division
Workshop: Teaching Design (Products, Processes, and Industry Involvement)
Wednesday, October 31, 2018 - 1:36pm to 1:58pm
Russell F. Dunn, Ph.D., P.E.
Professor of
the Practice
Department of Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering
Vanderbilt
University
Nashville,
TN 37235-1604
Ph:
615-343-4268
Matt J. Lang, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering
Vanderbilt
University
Nashville,
TN 37235-1604
Ph:
615-345-7493
Bryan R. Beyer
Adjunct
Instructor
Department of Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering
Vanderbilt
University
Nashville,
TN 37235-1604
Ph:
615-343-4268
Incorporating
Laboratory Pilot Plant Data and Customized Software Simulations into Chemical
Engineering Design Education at Vanderbilt
Integrating
unit operations laboratories with scale-up design assignments offers unique
perspectives for the students to connect equipment pilot equipment operation to
industrial scale design. Two-week
laboratory modules involving reverse osmosis and distillation technology,
respectively, are currently run by undergraduates students at Vanderbilt as
part of their senior unit operations laboratory course. Students then use this pilot scale data to
generate a traditional laboratory report covering these respective
technologies. An additional week is
then spent by the students using customized water network design software is
coupled with the reverse osmosis technology to design an industrial scale water
interception and recycle network.
Likewise, customized heat exchange network software and Aspen
simulations are coupled with the distillation technology to design an
industrial scale distillation column with heat integration. Two examples illustrating these approaches
will be shown.