10.10 Class Home

10.10 Introduction to Chemical Engineering

Spring 2007

Instructors: Kristala L Jones Prather, Earl Solis, Paula T Hammond, George Stephanopoulos

TA: Jason Walther

Lecture: MWF1-2pm, T11am-12pm (66-110)
TA Office Hours: TR3-6pm (66-064)

Information:

The overarching objective of the course is to instill interest, excitement, and understanding of the field of Chemical Engineering. To achieve this goal, diverse applications of Chemical Engineering are explored through a series of example problems. Their solution requires application of fundamental concepts of mass and energy conservation to both batch and continuous systems. In addition, the solution to these problems relies on the computer-aided implementation of numerical methods, several of which are also covered in this course. Finally, programming skills and elements of engineering design are taught in the context of these example problems.

Announcements

Final Exam Information

Just a reminder that the 10.10 final exam will take place this afternoon from 1:30-4:30pm in Walker Memorial (building 50). You may use any books, class notes, or other printed or written material on this exam. You are also permitted to use a calculator. However, the use of other electronic devices (e.g., computers or PDAs) is not permitted. The final exam will be worth 30 percent of your final grade. Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,
Jason

Announced on 22 May 2007 10:12 a.m. by Jason Walther

No formal office hours today

I am assuming that there won't be high demand for office hours this week so we won't be holding formal office hours this week on Tuesday or Thursday. I'll be around and available, though, so if you want to meet and review any of the material, contact me and we can set up a time to meet.

Thanks,
Jason

Announced on 15 May 2007 11:49 a.m. by Jason Walther

Error in Supplied Code

Two of the groups caught a large error in the presupplied code. Line 28 of waste_treatment.m reads

vapor_wastes_treatment_cost = liquid_amount * Vapor_waste_treatment_cost;

when in fact it should read

vapor_wastes_treatment_cost = vapor_amount * Vapor_waste_treatment_cost;

The waste_treatment.m code shown in the lecture notes has this correct, but the code supplied on the stellar site does not. If you have already completed a significant portion of your project and don't want to go back and change all of you results, that is fine, since this bug was obviously not your fault. However, if you do want to go back and change this, feel free to do so.

Jason

Announced on 14 May 2007 7:55 a.m. by Jason Walther

Calculating Break-Even Price

For your final report, when you ar trying to see what product price leads to a profit of zero, you should reoptimize your process parameters every time you try a new price.

Jason

Announced on 12 May 2007 4:49 p.m. by Jason Walther

Template in .doc form

I was dumb and posted the template for the final report as a pdf file. It's up now as a word document as well.

Thanks,
Jason

Announced on 12 May 2007 1:57 p.m. by Jason Walther

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