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fundamentals of thermodynamics, chemistry, flow and transport processes as applied to energy systems, analysis of energy conversion in thermomechanical, thermochemical, electrochemical, photoelectric processes in transportation systems, efficiency, environmental impact and performance, fossil fuels, hydrogen, nuclear and renewable resources, fuel reforming, hydrogen and synthetic fuel production, fuel cells and batteries, combustion, hybrids, catalysis, supercritical and combined cycles, photovoltaics, different forms of energy storage and transmission and optimal source utilization and fuel-life cycle analysis

various chemical engineering problems in an industrial context, integration of fundamentals with material property estimation, process control, product development, computer simulation, integration of societal issues such as engineering ethics, environmental & safety considerations, impact of technology on society in the context of case studies: tools

experimental & theoretical aspects of chemical reaction kinetics, including transition-state theories, molecular beam scattering, classical techniques, quantum & statistical mechanical estimation of rate constants, pressure-dependence & chemical activation, modeling complex reacting mixtures, uncertainty/sensitivity analyses, reactions in gas phase, liquid phase, on surfaces with examples from atmospheric, combustion, industrial, catalytic, biological chemistry: readings, study materials

concepts of reaction rate, stoichiometry and equilibrium applied to the analysis of chemical and biological reacting systems, derivation of rate expressions from reaction mechanisms and equilibrium or steady state assumptions, design of chemical and biochemical reactors via synthesis of chemical kinetics, transport phenomena, and mass and energy balances: readings

fundamentals of chemical reaction engineering (rate laws, kinetics, mechanisms of homogeneous and heterogeneous reactions, analysis of rate data, multiple reactions, adiabatic and non-adiabatic reactors and multiple reactions with heat effects), Emphasis on logic rather than memorization of equations and the conditions to which they apply

dynamic processes & engineering tasks of process operations & control, modeling static & dynamic behavior of processes (control strategies, design of feedback, feedforward, other control structures, model-based control, applications to process equipment): study materials

focuses on use of modern computational & math, linear systems as basic computational unit in scientific computing, methods for solving sets of nonlinear algebraic equations, ordinary differential equations, differential-algebraic (DAE) systems, probability in physical modeling, statistical analysis of data & parameter estimation, finite difference & finite element techniques for converting partial differential equations: syllabus, readings, tools