Chemical Engineering Refresher Training Course

Course Overview

Learning Objectives

• Review the role of chemical engineering fundamentals in process design, operation, and troubleshooting on Day 1.
• Apply unit conversions and process calculations accurately and consistently.
• Perform material balances for systems with recycle, bypass, purge, and chemical reaction.
• Perform energy balances and apply thermodynamic properties, equations of state, and phase equilibria, including flash calculations.
• Apply fluid mechanics principles to calculate pressure drop and evaluate pumps, compressors, control valves, and two-phase flow.
• Apply heat transfer principles to evaluate heat exchanger performance, fouling, and heat exchanger design methods.
• Apply mass transfer principles to distillation, absorption, stripping, extraction, adsorption, and membrane separation.
• Apply chemical reaction engineering principles, including kinetics, conversion, selectivity, catalysis, and reactor types.
• Explain process control fundamentals, including feedback control, PID controllers, and control valves.
• Interpret process design documentation and apply process simulation to evaluate process performance.
• Apply process safety principles, energy efficiency and pinch analysis, and process economics to engineering decisions.
• Apply a structured approach to process troubleshooting and optimization by the end of Day 5.

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Learning Outcomes

• By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
• Apply chemical engineering fundamentals confidently in their daily work.
• Carry out process calculations accurately with correct units.
• Solve material balances for real process systems.
• Solve energy balances and apply phase equilibria.
• Calculate pressure drop and evaluate pumping and compression requirements.
• Assess heat exchanger performance and fouling effects.
• Evaluate separation equipment such as distillation and absorption columns.
• Understand reactor behavior and factors that affect conversion and selectivity.
• Explain how process control loops work.
• Use process documentation and simulation effectively.
• Integrate safety, energy efficiency, and economics into engineering decisions.
• Troubleshoot process problems using a structured method.

Course Outline