Engineering Future Chemical Engineers: Incorporation of Process Intensification Concepts into the Undergraduate Curriculum

工程-化学（53）过程强化包括广泛的活动，重点是确定化学生产路线中的基本限制，开发或组合工艺，以最大限度地减少资源利用并优化工艺质量。过程强化对工业竞争力至关重要，因为它可以提高安全性，提高运营效率，降低能源使用，降低资本成本，减少废物排放，并减少过程危害。通过过程强化来改进工艺要求化学工程师整合许多基本概念并超越传统的单元操作。目前，化学工程师被教导如何通过将标准单元操作连接在一起来开发工艺，但通常没有经过培训，以新的方式合成新的和有效的工艺设计的基本概念。通过这一项目，正在开发教育模块，通过引入关键概念和原型应用，为强化流程提供必要的基础。化学工程的四门课程正在改革：流体流动、传热、传质和化学反应器设计。这一系列课程允许早期引入和垂直整合关键过程强化概念到本科化学工程课程。这些模块正在进行严格的评估，以确定其对学生学习的影响，其结果正在通过论文，网络和化学工程学院的研讨会广泛传播。

Engineering - Chemical (53)Process intensification encompasses a broad spectrum of activities focused on identifying fundamental limitations in a chemical production route and developing or combining processes to minimize resource utilization and optimize process quality. Process intensification is essential to industrial competitiveness as it can enhance safety, increase operating efficiency, lower energy usage, reduce capital costs, reduce waste emissions, and reduce process hazards. Improving processes by process intensification requires chemical engineers to integrate many fundamental concepts and go beyond traditional unit operations. Currently chemical engineers are taught how to develop a process by linking together standard unit operations, but are frequently not trained to synthesize fundamental concepts in new ways for novel and efficient process designs. Through this project, educational modules are being developed to provide the necessary foundation for process intensification through the introduction of key concepts and prototype applications. Four courses in chemical engineering are being transformed: Fluid Flow, Heat Transfer, Mass Transfer, and Chemical Reactor Design. This sequence of courses allows both early introduction and vertical integration of key process intensification concepts into the undergraduate chemical engineering curriculum. The modules are being rigorously assessed to determine their impact on student learning and the results are being broadly disseminated through papers, the Web, and workshops for chemical engineering faculty.