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Chemical Engineering Education

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Jason Ganley

ChE laboratory PRESSURE SWING ADSORPTION IN THE UNIT OPERATIONS LABORATORYJason C. GanleyPColorado School of Mines • Golden, CO 80401 ressure swing adsorption (PSA) is an industrial process adsorption occurs. The selection of a particular type of ad- typically used for the bulk separation of gas mixtures. sorbent may allow one component of a gas mixture to be An outgrowth of temperature swing adsorption, PSA preferentially adsorbed, the nature of surface and/or pore dif-is one of only a few gas-surface adsorption processes that fusion effects may vary for each gas in the mixture, and so on.allows for the separation of mixtures of gaseous

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Chemical Engineering Education

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Enrico Martinez; Shelby Mullen; Brent Rogers; Haley Worman

ChE laboratory THE DRYING OF APPLES IN A LABORATORY TRAY DRIERShelby Mullen, Brent Rogers, Haley Worman, and Enrico N. MartinezTPurdue University • West Lafayette, IN 47907 he Chemical Engineering Laboratory is a senior-level laboratory equipment and experiments designed for today’s course at Purdue University. Looking back, the need industrial reality. The Allan H. Fox Unit Operations Labora- for the laboratory first emerged in the summer of 1935 tory now provides an industrial setting for seniors in chemicalwhen a required set of two unit operations laboratory courses engineering to sharpen their skills and apply their theoreticalwas introduced by Prof

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Chemical Engineering Education

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Lynn Heasley

. Wankat ASSOCIATE EDITOR  Graduate Education Donald P. Visco, Jr. 52 A Graduate Class in Research Data Management ASSISTANT EDITOR Lawrence O. Schmidt and Joseph H. Holles Joseph H. Holles  laboratory MANAGING EDITOR 9 The Drying of Apples in a Laboratory Tray Drier Lynn Heasley Shelby Mullen, Brent Rogers, Haley Worman, and Enrico N. Martinez PROBLEMS EDITOR 44 Pressure Swing Adsorption in the Unit Operations

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Chemical Engineering Education

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P.R Naren; N.R. Subathra

© Copyright ChE Division of ASEE 2018ChE teaching tips Demonstrating Mixing Time Estimation in a Mechanically Agitated Contactor Simple demonstration experiments integrated into the curricu-lum will aid understanding and facilitate learning. As part of theChemical Reaction Engineering Laboratory course for the final yearchemical engineering degree program, a simple experiment basedon pH response is described to quantify mixing in stirred tanks.Hydrodynamics and the resulting fluid-flow pattern significantlyaffect the performance of a given reactor. Typically, residence timedistribution and mixing time

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Chemical Engineering Education

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Joseph Holles; Lawrence Schmidt

Curation Profile.[17] Krier and Strasser’s Data Managementone of two approaches: stand-alone courses or seminars/work- for Libraries: A LITA Guide was also used to develop severalshops. The stand-alone course has been used by information lectures.[18]science programs,[10,11] while the workshop/seminar approach Pre-course and post-course assessment was performedis commonly offered through libraries.[12] The stand-alone to determine the students’ knowledge about their currentcourse offers the advantage of in-depth material coverage laboratory RDM practices and eight specific areas of RDM.while the workshops require less time. However, workshops For assessment of current laboratory practices, the

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Chemical Engineering Education

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L.T. Biegler; I.E. Grossmann; N.V. Sahinidis

collaborations with the National Energyrange of areas in Process Systems Engineering that extends Technology Laboratory (NETL), which has led to a numberfar beyond traditional chemical process design. With the of projects related to modeling, optimization, and controladdition of Erik Ydstie in 1992, process control became a for energy systems. The Energy Systems Initiative (ESI)focus research area. The addition of Nick Sahinidis in 2007 comprises projects related to energy systems, and includesand Chrysanthos Gounaris in 2013 brought further strengths topics ranging from solar cell research to technologies for CO2in core optimization areas, as well as new applications at the capture and sequestration, and advances in

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Chemical Engineering Education

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MUJAN SEIF; MATTHEW BECK

ChE laboratory SHAPE MEMORY POLYMERS: A JOINTCHEMICAL AND MATERIALS ENGINEERING HANDS-ON EXPERIENCEMujan N. Seif and Matthew J. BeckSUniversity of Kentucky • Lexington, KY 40506 tudent retention is an ongoing area of concern for en- Addressing this need for engaging and cross-disciplinary gineering programs nationwide.[1-5] Although it is gen- student experiences, we describe a joint chemical and materi- erally accepted that both the difficulty of engineering als engineering hands-on experience centered on the synthesiscoursework and changes in student career interests decrease and physical characterization of a shape-memory polymer.engineering retention rates, these are not factors

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Chemical Engineering Education

Authors

Dorothy Skaf

, a lower student-to-faculty ratio in the classroom. Three or sequence, the Augustinian Culture Seminars, which combines 2018built in 1974 and named after Robert E. White, a long- (anticipated) 69 44 four sections of laboratory classes and senior design have aspects of literature and writing classes in a small seminarserving chair of the department who was renowned for been offered to accommodate limitations of experimental

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Chemical Engineering Education

Authors

Satyen Gautam; Sachin Jangam; Kai Chee Loh

Peer Review in the Undergraduate Laboratory” Eur. J. Eng. Educ., 35, 17 (2009) CEE, 32(3), 194 (1998) 23. Orsmond P, S. Merry, and K. Reiling, “A Study in Self-Assessment: 8. Mio, C., and E. Ventura-Medina, “How to make the most of Peer- Tutor and Students’ Perceptions of Performance Criteria,” Assessment Assessment,” IChemE-EdSIG, Nov 2016 4, 330 (2007) 9. Nulty, D.D., “A Guide to Peer and Self-Assessment Approaches 25. Falchinov, N., “Peer Feedback Marking: Developing Peer Assessment,” and Practice Strategies for Academics