University of Calgary : Chemical Engineering ENCH

Chemical Engineering ENCH

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For more information about these courses, see the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering: schulich.ucalgary.ca/chemical-petroleum.

Senior Courses

Chemical Engineering 300

Introduction to Chemical Engineering

Introduction to chemical engineering as a profession. Introduction to material and energy balances in chemical engineering applications, including energy, environmental, and biological systems. Engineering problem solving, critical thinking, and creative thinking. Modelling and Simulation. Introduction to chemical process equipment and the development and analysis of sustainable chemical processes.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-2)
Prerequisite(s): Engineering 201 or 212.

Chemical Engineering 307

Numerical Methods, Data Analysis, and Simulation

The theory and use of numerical computational procedures to solve design and analysis problems. Methods for solution of nonlinear equations; solution of simultaneous linear equations; regression, curve fitting, and interpolation; optimization; numerical differentiation and integration; solution of ordinary differential equations; introduction to linear programming.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-2T)
Prerequisite(s): 3 units from Engineering 233, Digital Engineering 233 or 440; and Mathematics 331 or 375.
Antirequisite(s): Credit for Chemical Engineering 307 and any of Engineering 407 or Digital Engineering 407 or Chemical Engineering 407 will not be allowed.

Chemical Engineering 315

Chemical Engineering Process Calculation

Material and energy balances of physical and chemical systems for steady state and transient conditions. Introduction to analysis and synthesis of chemical processes.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-2)
Corequisite(s): Engineering 311.

Chemical Engineering 317

Materials Science for Chemical Engineers

Classes of inorganic and polymeric materials and their applications, crystal structure determination, phase diagrams and phase transformation, defects and material properties, materials processing methods, characterization tools for materials engineers, nanotechnology.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-1T)
Prerequisite(s): Engineering 202 and Mathematics 275.
Corequisite(s): Chemistry 357.

Chemical Engineering 327

Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics

Review of first and second law principles; application to the properties of fluids and solutions; vapour liquid equilibria; the third law; applications to chemical equilibrium and chemical reactions.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-1T-1)
Prerequisite(s): Engineering 311.
Corequisite(s): Chemical Engineering 350.
Antirequisite(s): Credit for Chemical Engineering 327 and 427 will not be allowed.

Chemical Engineering 331

Process Fluid Dynamics

Fluid Properties; Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids. Fluid statics. Bernoulli equation; derivation and applications. Control volume and system representation. Differential analysis of Flows. The Navier-Stokes equation; applications. Dimensional analysis. Flow in conduits; laminar and turbulent flows; single-pipe and multiple-pipe systems. Forces on immersed bodies; fluidization. Metering.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-1T-3/2)
Prerequisite(s): Engineering 201 or 212; and Engineering 202; and Mathematics 375.

Chemical Engineering 350

Introduction to Process Analysis and Design

Strategies for the solution of engineering problems involving material and energy balances of physical and reactive chemical systems in steady state and transient conditions. Introduction to phase equilibria for multicomponent systems. Design and analysis of a large-scale process.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-2)
Prerequisite(s): Chemical Engineering 300.
Corequisite(s): Engineering 311.
Antirequisite(s): Credit for both Chemical Engineering 315 and 350 will not be allowed.

Chemical Engineering 400

Design for Economics and Sustainability

Design of chemical processes, emphasizing trade-offs between technical, economic, and sustainability considerations. Measures of economic profitability and environmental impact. Markets and price formation. Estimation of capital investment, cost of production, taxes, depreciation, and cash flows. Sensitivity analysis and optimization techniques. Basic concepts in industrial ecology. Comparison of alternatives and decision making under uncertainty.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-2)
Prerequisite(s): Chemical Engineering 315 or 350.
Antirequisite(s): Credit for Chemical Engineering 400 and either Chemical Engineering 423 or Petroleum Engineering 423 will not be allowed.

Chemical Engineering 401

Partial Differential Equations in Transport Processes

Modelling of transport phenomena. Partial differential equations in different co-ordinate systems. Approximate and exact methods of solving equations. Similarity transform, Separation of variables. Laplace transform. Fourier series and Sturm-Liouville systems. Analysis and solution of steady state and transient diffusion problems including Fourier, Darcy and Fick's law analogies. Application to energy transfer in solids and pressure propagation in reservoirs.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-1)
Prerequisite(s): Chemical Engineering 331 and Mathematics 375.
Corequisite(s): Chemical Engineering 403.

Chemical Engineering 403

Heat Transfer

A study of concepts involved in heat transfer. Applications of continuity and energy equations. Boundary layer theory. Conduction, convection and radiation heat transfer. Analogies among heat, mass, and momentum transfer. Boiling, condensation and evaporation. Heat exchanger calculations.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-1T-4/2)
Prerequisite(s): Mathematics 375 and Chemical Engineering 331.

Chemical Engineering 405

Fundamentals of Mass Transfer and Separation Processes I

Diffusion and convective mass transfer, mass transfer rates, and mass transfer coefficients. Analysis and modelling of separation processes involving phase equilibria and mass transfer. Batch and continuous separations. Tray and packed columns for distillation, absorption and stripping and other unit operations.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-1T-2)
Prerequisite(s): Chemical Engineering 403; and Chemical Engineering 327 or 427.
Corequisite(s): Chemical Engineering 421.

Chemical Engineering 407

Numerical Methods in Chemical and Oil & Gas Engineering

The theory and use of numerical computational procedures to solve chemical and oil and gas engineering problems. Methods for solution of nonlinear equations, solution of simultaneous linear equations, regression, curve fitting, optimization, interpolation, differentiation, integration, solution of ordinary differential equations and partial differential equations are included.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-2T)
Prerequisite(s): 3 units from Engineering 233, Digital Engineering 233 or 440; and Mathematics 375 or 331.
Antirequisite(s): Credit for Chemical Engineering 407 and either Engineering 407 or Digital Engineering 407 will not be allowed.

Chemical Engineering 417

Materials Engineering

Classes of inorganic and polymeric materials and their applications, crystal structure determination, phase diagrams and phase transformation, defects and material properties, materials processing methods, characterization tools for materials engineers, nanotechnology, composites, electronic materials, and construction materials
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-1T)
Prerequisite(s): Engineering 202 and Mathematics 275.
Corequisite(s): Chemistry 357.

Chemical Engineering 421

Chemical Reaction Engineering

Kinetics of homogeneous reactions and the interpretation of kinetic data; design of single and multiple reactors for simple, simultaneous and consecutive reactions; influence of temperature, pressure and flow on reactions and reactor design; introduction to heterogeneous reaction systems and catalyzed fluid reactions.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-1T-2)
Prerequisite(s): Chemical Engineering 403; and Chemical Engineering 307 or 407
Corequisite(s): Chemical Engineering 405.

Chemical Engineering 423

Chemical Engineering Process Development

Design of chemical processing units and plants; cost estimates and chemical process economics; optimization techniques; introduction to linear programming. Safety and environmental considerations in process design.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-1)
Prerequisite(s): Chemical Engineering 315.
Antirequisite(s): Credit for Chemical Engineering 423 and Petroleum Engineering 423 will not be allowed.

Chemical Engineering 427

Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics

Chemical Engineering 429

Process Dynamics and Control

Mathematical models describing transient response characteristics of basic process elements; design and analysis of feedback control systems, digital process control hardware and software; process automation and information flow in industrial plants; introduction to advanced control strategies; process control applications.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-2T-3/2)
Prerequisite(s): Mathematics 375; and Chemical Engineering 315 or 350.
Corequisite(s): Chemical Engineering 405.

Chemical Engineering 450

Chemical Process Design and Simulation

Process selection and synthesis; process engineering drawings; process modelling and simulation. Design of process equipment such as heat exchangers, pumps, piping, and separation units. Plantwide process control. Safety and hazard assessments. Completion of an open-ended design project involving the use of a steady-state process simulator to solve problems related to chemical processing, energy, and sustainability.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-2)
Prerequisite(s): Chemical Engineering 400 or 423.
Antirequisite(s): Credit for both Chemical Engineering 450 and 510 will not be allowed.

Chemical Engineering 500

Chemical Engineering Design I

Team design project in which students integrate creative and critical thinking skills with the knowledge and experience gained from earlier courses to solve open-ended design problems while refining their skills in teamwork and project management. Preparation of a feasibility study of a chemical process or product including supply and demand forecasts, estimation of capital and operating costs, process drawings and recommendation as to the viability of the project.
Course Hours: 3 units; (2-4)
Prerequisite(s): Chemical Engineering 405, 421, 429, and 450.
Antirequisite(s): Credit for both Chemical Engineering 500 and 511 will not be allowed.
Notes: Chemical Engineering 500 and 550 are a required two-course sequence that shall be completed in the same academic year. Concurrent enrolment in Chemical Engineering 500 and one or more of Internship 513.01, 513.02, 513.03, and 513.04 will not be allowed.

Chemical Engineering 501

Transport Phenomena

Simplification, scaling and dimensional reasoning. Error estimation. Heat, mass and momentum transfer analyses. Convective-Diffusive transport in open and porous media. Systems and process modelling. Analytical solutions by the lumped, integral and differential techniques.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-1T-1)
Prerequisite(s): Chemical Engineering 401.

Chemical Engineering 503

Crude Oil Upgrading and Refining

Upgrading objectives; analysis and composition of non-distillable material and its relationship to upgrading; upgrading processes; refinery products and specifications. Conventional, heavy oil and bitumen upgrading technology.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-1T)
Prerequisite(s): Third-year standing, or higher, in Chemical Engineering or Oil and Gas Engineering.

Chemical Engineering 505

Separation Processes II

Concepts in mass transfer including molecular diffusion, mass transfer rates, and mass transfer coefficients. Application of these and other fundamental concepts in chemical engineering to develop process design specifications for various unit operations which may include: crystallization, humidification and cooling, drying, adsorption, and membrane processes.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-1T-1)
Prerequisite(s): Chemical Engineering 405.

Chemical Engineering 510

Chemical Process Design and Simulation

Process selection and synthesis; use and recognition of the limitations of process simulation software; block diagrams, process flow diagrams and piping and instrumentation diagrams; shortcut methods for sizing process equipment; optimizing the design of distillation columns, reactors, etc., via steady-state simulation; economic design trade-offs between plant reaction and separation sections; plantwide process control; safety and hazard assessments; completion of open ended design projects.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-2)
Prerequisite(s): Chemical Engineering 405, 421, 423, 429 and admission to the Chemical Engineering program.

Chemical Engineering 511

Chemical Process Design I

Team design project applying principles of process engineering and project management; Gantt charts; critical path method; process simulation, degrees of freedom analysis; considerations in process selection; plant location; block flow diagrams; process flow diagrams; short cut process equipment design/sizing procedures; preliminary equipment cost estimating techniques.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-4)
Prerequisite(s): Chemical Engineering 405, 421, 423, 429 and admission to the Chemical Engineering program.
Antirequisite(s): Credit for Chemical Engineering 511 and Petroleum Engineering 511 will not be allowed.
Notes: Chemical Engineering 511 and 531 are a required two-course sequence that shall be completed in the same academic year. Concurrent enrolment in Chemical Engineering 511 and one or more of Internship 513.01, 513.02, 513.03, and 513.04 will not be allowed.

Chemical Engineering 519

Special Topics

Current advanced topics in Chemical Engineering.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-1T) or (3-0)
Prerequisite(s): Consent of the Department.
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT

Chemical Engineering 530

Electrochemical Engineering

Electrochemical kinetics and thermodynamics. Mass transport in electrochemical cells. Design and modelling of electrochemical cells. Application of electrochemistry to fuel cells, batteries, and water treatment.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-1T)
Prerequisite(s): Chemical Engineering 421; and Chemical Engineering 327 or 427.
Antirequisite(s): Credit for Chemical Engineering 530 and any of 519.13, 519.14 or 651 will not be allowed.

Chemical Engineering 531

Chemical Process Design II

Team design project continuing from Chemical Engineering 511. Detailed design of large commercial plants involving the preparation of a process and instrumentation diagram; emphasis on computer design procedures; specification sheets for chemical processing equipment such as separators, pumps, compressors, columns and process piping. Other topics include operational considerations in design, plant safety; relief system design; waste treatment and pollution control processes; plant and equipment plot plans; control and computer simulation.
Course Hours: 3 units; (2-6)
Prerequisite(s): Chemical Engineering 511.
Notes: Chemical Engineering 511 and 531 are a required two-course sequence that shall be completed in the same academic year. Concurrent enrolment in Chemical Engineering 511 and one or more of Internship 513.01, 513.02, 513.03, and 513.04 will not be allowed.

Chemical Engineering 535

Principles of Biochemical Engineering

Introduction to biochemistry, enzyme kinetics and cell growth and metabolism. Aspects of mass transfer, heat transfer and fluid flow related to the design of biological process equipment. Fermentations, sterilization and extraction techniques. Treatment of effluents. Introduction to bio-reactor design and scale-up. Introduction to process instrumentation and control.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-2/2)
Prerequisite(s): Chemistry 357.

Chemical Engineering 537

Computational Thermodynamics

Amalgamation of thermodynamic models and computational techniques with application to industrially important thermodynamic problems such as multi-component flash calculations, reacting systems, phase stability and gas hydrates.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-1T)
Prerequisite(s): Chemical Engineering 327 or 427.

Chemical Engineering 539

Polymer Engineering

Introduction to polymer science and technology. Molecular structure, processing, rheology, thermal, physical and mechanical properties. Synthetic polymers used in biomedical, manufacturing and other advanced technological applications.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-1T)
Prerequisite(s): Chemical Engineering 403 or Biomedical Engineering 455.
Corequisite(s): Prerequisite or Corequisite: Chemistry 357.

Chemical Engineering 550

Chemical Engineering Design II

A continuation of the Chemical Engineering 500 capstone design project, where student teams build on their design work done in Part I. Focus may include detailed design, prototyping, pilot scale demonstration, hazard analysis, identification and mitigation of design inefficiencies and risks, process operability, and energy optimization
Course Hours: 3 units; (2-4)
Prerequisite(s): Chemical Engineering 500.
Antirequisite(s): Credit for both Chemical Engineering 550 and 531 will not be allowed.
Notes: Chemical Engineering 500 and 550 are a required two-course sequence that shall be completed in the same academic year. Concurrent enrolment in Chemical Engineering 550 and one or more of Internship 513.01, 513.02, 513.03, and 513.04 will not be allowed.

Chemical Engineering 551

Chemical Engineering Laboratory

Experiments which demonstrate the operation of chemical process equipment involving heat and/or mass transfer, or kinetics. Lectures will cover experimental design and applied statistics.
Course Hours: 3 units; (2-4/2)
Prerequisite(s): Chemical Engineering 405.
Corequisite(s): Chemical Engineering 505.
Antirequisite(s): Credit for Chemical Engineering 551 and Petroleum Engineering 551 will not be allowed.

Chemical Engineering 561

Machine Learning for Energy Systems

Applications of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Optimization in Energy Systems. Review of Statistics, Probability and Data Science Concepts; Supervised and Unsupervised Learning in Python including Regression and Clustering; Data Engineering for Data Filtering and Feature Selection; Optimization. Focus on Application to Problems in the Energy Industry.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-1)
Prerequisite(s): Engineering 319 or Digital Engineering 319; and 3 units from Engineering 407, Digital Engineering 407, Chemical Engineering 307 or 407.
Antirequisite(s): Credit for Chemical Engineering 561 and Petroleum Engineering 519.11 (Machine Learning-Energy Syst) will not be allowed.

Chemical Engineering 565

Process Sensors and Data Acquisition

Introduction to chemical engineering sensors and information processing techniques. Basic concepts of process measurement methods and signals. Data acquisition hardware and software. Identifying errors and uncertainties in process measurements. Filtering and smoothing of process signals. Introduction to Fourier analysis. Devices for measuring temperature, pressure and chemical composition. Common failure modes and error sources. Process instrument calibration.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-0)
Prerequisite(s): Engineering 319 or Digital Engineering 319; and 3 units from Engineering 407, Digital Engineering 407, Chemical Engineering 307 or 407.
Antirequisite(s): Credit for Chemical Engineering 565 and 519.16 (Proc Sensors and Data Acquis) and will not be allowed.

Graduate Courses

Chemical Engineering 607

Natural Gas Processing Principles

Physical and chemical properties of natural gases; vapour-liquid equilibrium data and computations; flow of gas and gas-liquid mixtures; separation of gaseous mixtures; heat transfer in gas processing; production of natural gas and its associated liquids.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-0)
Notes: This course does not count towards the degree requirements of MSc and PhD students.

Chemical Engineering 609

Natural Gas Processing Technology

Design and operational criteria in transporting and processing of natural gas; refrigeration and compression; cryogenics; hydrocarbon dew point control; LPG recovery; sulphur recovery; mechanical flow diagrams; process simulation.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-0)
Prerequisite(s): Chemical Engineering 607 or an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering.

Chemical Engineering 613

Advanced Topics in Mass Transfer

Advanced concepts in mass transfer in multiphase systems. Mass transfer with simultaneous chemical reaction and heat transfer.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-0)

Chemical Engineering 615

Model Predictive Control

Review of process dynamics and control fundamentals (step response curves, PID control structures and PID controller tuning). Identification of finite impulse response models from plant data. Model Predictive Control (MPC) algorithms (e.g. Dynamic Matrix Control). Applications of Linear Programming to determine optimal MPC setpoints respecting unit constraints. Computer simulation using the MATLAB MPC toolbox. Introduction to univariate controller performance assessment techniques.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-1.5)

Chemical Engineering 617

Modelling and Identification Advanced Control

First-principles dynamic models of complex chemical processes. Comparison of dynamic simulation models generated using MATLAB/Simulink with those imbedded in commercial process simulators. Consideration of operability in plant design. Introduction to time series analysis and closed-loop identification. Causality versus correlation. Multivariate regression methods for soft sensor design.

Course Hours: 3 units; (3-1.5)

Chemical Engineering 619

Special Problems

Advanced studies on specialized topics in chemical, petroleum, biochemical and environmental engineering.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-0)
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT

Chemical Engineering 620

Graduate Project

Individual project in the student's area of specialization under the guidance of a faculty member. A written proposal, one or more written progress reports, and a final written report are required. An oral presentation is required upon completion of the course. Open only to students in the MEng (course-based) program.
Course Hours: 6 units; (0-4)
Prerequisite(s): Consent of the Department.
Antirequisite(s): Credit for Chemical Engineering 620 and 699 will not be allowed.

Chemical Engineering 621

Reservoir Simulation

Enhanced recovery modelling (generalized black-oil models, compositional and miscible), well treatment, grid orientation. New developments in gridding, thermal models, naturally fractured reservoirs, modelling of induced fractures (hydraulic and waterflood), reservoir geomechanics, and practical aspects of conducting simulation studies.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-0)
Prerequisite(s): Petroleum Engineering 429 or 523, or admission to Master of Engineering with Reservoir Characterization specialization.

Chemical Engineering 623

Chemical Reactor Design

Advanced study of design and operation of chemical reactors for both homogeneous and heterogeneous systems, batch, continuous flow stirred tank, tubular and multibed adiabatic reactors. Cold shot cooling in reactors. Optimal temperature gradients and yields. Catalyst effectiveness factors and optimal control with decaying catalysts. Analysis of sulphur plant reactor design including cost optimization.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-0)

Chemical Engineering 625

Advanced Topics in Heat Transfer

Diffusive and convective transport of heat. Analytical and approximate solutions to steady state and transient conduction and convection problems. Superposition techniques. Forced convection of heat in laminar and turbulent regimes.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-0)

Chemical Engineering 627

Chemical Process Simulation

Object oriented programming applied to the design of a steady state chemical process simulator via the sequential modular approach and by the equation-based approach. Material and energy balances for systems of process units.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-1.5)

Chemical Engineering 629

Secondary and Tertiary Recovery

Displacement processes for improved recovery of hydrocarbons. Waterflooding, gas flooding, solvent flooding and chemical flooding. Performance prediction techniques. Comparative economics.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-0)
Prerequisite(s): Petroleum Engineering 525.

Chemical Engineering 630

Electrochemical Engineering

Electrochemical kinetics and thermodynamics. Mass transport in electrochemical cells. Design and modelling of electrochemical cells. Application of electrochemistry to fuel cells, batteries, and water treatment.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-1T)
Antirequisite(s): Credit for Chemical Engineering 630 and any of 519.13 (Electrochemical Engineering), 519.14 (Fuel Cell Technology) or 651 will not be allowed.

Chemical Engineering 631

Advanced Topics in Fluid Mechanics

Constitutive equations for viscous flow and methods of solution. Laminar, transition and turbulent flows. Hydrodynamic stability. Vortices. Boundary layers.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-0)

Chemical Engineering 633

Chemical Thermodynamics

Advanced application of thermodynamic principles. Calculation of thermodynamic properties; ideal and non-ideal solution theory; calculation of phase equilibria; properties of reacting mixtures.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-0)

Chemical Engineering 638

Polymer Science and Engineering

Introduction to polymer science, molecular structure, processing, rheology, thermal, physical and mechanical properties; synthesis methods, molar mass distributions, polymer analytical techniques, solution and blend thermodynamics, lattice models, polymer processing, rubber thermodynamics; fluid mechanics/heat transfer fundamentals of melt processing operations, anomalies arising from melt elasticity; and advanced technological applications.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-0)
Antirequisite(s): Credit for Chemical Engineering 638 and 539 will not be allowed.
Also known as: (formerly Chemical Engineering 619.38 Polymer Engineering)

Chemical Engineering 639

Applied Numerical Methods in Engineering

Numerical solution of systems of linear and non-linear algebraic equations, eigenvalue problems. Numerical solution of systems of ordinary and partial differential equations. Initial value and boundary value problems. Finite difference and finites element methods. Numerical stability.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-0)
Notes: Knowledge of a programming language and undergraduate-level numerical methods is necessary.

Chemical Engineering 643

Air Pollution Control Engineering

Introduction to air quality and air pollution. Energy and air pollution. Fossil fuel combustion and related air pollution. Industrial air pollution control. Control of particulate matter. Control of VOCs, SOx, and NOx. Adsorption, absorption and biofiltration of air pollutants. GHG emission control. Recent advances on related topics.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-0)
Antirequisite(s): Credit for Chemical Engineering 643 and Environmental Engineering 641 will not be allowed.
Also known as: (Environmental Engineering 641)

Chemical Engineering 645

Industrial and Produced Wastewater Treatment

Sources and characterization of industrial wastewater. Treatment objectives and regulations. Unit and process design. Physical/chemical treatment including sedimentation, coagulation, filtration, absorption, adsorption, ion exchange, membrane processes and pH adjustment.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-0)
Notes: Credit for Chemical Engineering 645 and Environmental Engineering 661 will not be allowed.
Also known as: (Environmental Engineering 661)

Chemical Engineering 647

Thermal Recovery Methods

Oil sands and heavy oil resources. Fluid and rock properties. Heat transfer processes in porous media. Comparative analysis of viscous oil recovery methods: steam flooding, cyclic steam stimulation, in-situ combustion and steam-assisted-gravity-drainage. Surface equipment and operation. Laboratory and field performance evaluation of thermal recovery methods. Process economics.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-0)
Prerequisite(s): Petroleum Engineering 429, 523 or 621, or admission to Master of Engineering with Reservoir Characterization specialization.

Chemical Engineering 649

Naturally Fractured Reservoirs

Classification and characterization of naturally fractured reservoirs. Drilling and completion methods. Production characteristics. Tight gas reservoirs. Reserve estimation. Emphasis is placed on the relationship between geology, log interpretation, well testing, and primary-secondary recovery of hydrocarbons from naturally fractured reservoirs.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-0)

Chemical Engineering 650

CO2 Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS): Principles, Technologies, and Analysis

Introduction to the concepts of carbon cycle and sustainable development. Study principles, design, and application of various CCUS technology streams such as absorption, adsorption, membranes, oxy-fuel combustion, chemical looping combustion, and CO2 conversion. Overview of geological sequestration of CO2 and negative emission technologies such as DAC (Direct Air Capture), BECCS (Bio-Energy with CCS) and Indirect Ocean Capture. Introduction to the concepts of Life cycle and techno-economic assessment to analyze the feasibility of CCUS technologies. Discussion on sustainability aspects of CCUS with focus on policy & regulatory landscape for CCUS in Canada.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-0)
Also known as: (formerly Chemical Engineering 619.66 (CO2 Capture:Sci, Engg, Society))

Chemical Engineering 653

Horizontal Wells for Petroleum Production

Drilling and completion methods for horizontal wells; mathematical analysis of steady state flow to horizontal wells and well combinations; pseudo steady state and constant well bore pressure models; theoretical comparisons of predicted performance and coning behaviour of horizontal and vertical well patterns; performance in fractured reservoirs; potential for horizontal wells in heavy oil and bitumen production; basic conceptual ideas of steam-assisted gravity drainage.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-0)
Prerequisite(s): Petroleum Engineering 429 or Petroleum Engineering 523.

Chemical Engineering 657

Advanced Reservoir Engineering

Formulation and solution of reservoir-engineering problems including combination of variables, Laplace transform, approximate Integral methods, and solution methods of moving boundary problems. Examples from thermal processes (e.g. hot waterflooding, SAGD), different recovery mechanisms (e.g. imbibition, expansion drive, solution-gas drive), well testing problems and naturally fractured reservoirs.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-0)
Prerequisite(s): Petroleum Engineering 429 or Petroleum Engineering 523, or admission to Master of Engineering with Reservoir Characterization specialization.
Notes: Prior knowledge of reservoir engineering and analytical solution methods of differential equations is necessary.

Chemical Engineering 659

Advanced Cell and Tissue Engineering

Current challenges in tissue engineering. Focus on specific tissues. Course topics include a brief biology review, cell fate processes, stem cells, tissue microenvironments and mass transfer, biomaterials, bioreactors, and clinical delivery of tissue engineered constructs.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-0)
Prerequisite(s): Consent of the Department.
Notes: Credit for Chemical Engineering 659 and Biomedical Engineering 619.06 (Adv Cell & Tissue Engineering) will not be allowed.

Chemical Engineering 661

Geostatistics for Reservoir Characterization

Statistical/probability concepts, exploratory data analysis, spatial structural analysis, estimation theory (Kriging), integration of auxiliary information and conditional stochastic simulation. Special emphasis on reservoir characterization and the particular problems encountered in that area. The geostatistical methodology for reservoir characterization will be demonstrated on a fluvial reservoir example.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-0)
Prerequisite(s): Petroleum Engineering 429 or Petroleum Engineering 523, or admission to the Master of Engineering or the Master of Science, with a specialization in Reservoir Characterization.

Chemical Engineering 665

Wastewater Issues for the Oil and Gas Industry

Produced water characteristics, regulations governing produced water management, management options. Technologies used for produced water treatment, novel/emerging technologies. Process design approaches and comparative evaluation of various technologies. Case Studies.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-0)
Notes: Credit for Chemical Engineering 665 and Environmental Engineering 665 will not be allowed.
Also known as: (Environmental Engineering 665)

Chemical Engineering 669

Fundamentals of Transport Phenomena

Differential and integral descriptions of both steady state and transient heat, mass and momentum transfer. Application of transport phenomena to chemical engineering problems. Introduction to the use of commercial numerical software for solving transport phenomena problems.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-0)
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MEng in Chemical & Petroleum Engineering, with a specialization in Chemical Engineering or Engineering, Energy & Environment.

Chemical Engineering 671

Science and Technology of Catalysis

Catalytic Science and Kinetic Analysis, Thermodynamically and kinetically controlled catalytic processes, reaction modelling and catalyst deactivation. Essential techniques of catalysts preparation and characterization. Thermocatalysis, photocatalysis, electrocatalysis, biocatalysis, and hybrid systems will also be introduced.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-0)
Also known as: (formerly Chemical Engineering 619.56 (Science&TechnologyOfCatalysts))

Chemical Engineering 673

Engineering Principles in Biotechnology

Introduction to industrial microbiology, cell biotechnology, cell growth, kinetic of biochemical reactions, bioreactor kinetics and scale-up of bioprocess. Cell culture bioprocesses and Biomanufacturing. Synthetic biotechnology. Bioproducts recovery and chromatographic operations in bio separation.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-0)
Also known as: (formerly Chemical Engineering 619.68 (Principles of Biochem Eng))

Chemical Engineering 675

Data Science and Machine Learning in Chemical Engineering

Structure and techniques of machine learning, optimization deep learning, and reinforcement learning. Supervised and unsupervised learning. Supervised and unsupervised learning. Regression and clustering. Application to problems in chemical engineering.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-0)
Also known as: (formerly Chemical Engineering 619.89 (Dir & Hori Drilling Technology))

Chemical Engineering 677

Advanced Oil and Gas Engineering

Problems related to production of conventional oil, heavy oil and natural gas; analysis of the interactions of oil, water and gas, effects of fluid properties, rock structure and capillary, gravity and viscous forces acting on the reservoir system; application to the design of improved oil and gas recovery methods. New processes in oil and gas recovery.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-0)
Prerequisite(s): Petroleum Engineering 429 or Petroleum Engineering 523.

Chemical Engineering 687

Energy System Economics

Economic principles and risk management practices in the energy industry. Project selection; investment ranking; budgeting; and portfolio development. Fiscal regimes, royalties, credits and taxes. Decision making under uncertainty and risk.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-0)
Antirequisite(s): Credit for Chemical Engineering 687 and Petroleum Engineering 626 will not be allowed.
Also known as: (formerly Chemical Engineering 619.87 (Petroleum Economics))

Chemical Engineering 689

Drilling Advances, Modelling and Simulation

Application of drilling optimization simulator tools to optimize rate of penetration and minimize cost. Drilling hydraulics simulation, directional drill string torque and drag calculations, drilling fluid selection and analysis and real time drilling rate analysis.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-0)
Antirequisite(s): Credit for Chemical Engineering 689 and either Chemical Engineering 619.91 (Adv Drilling Optimization) or Petroleum Engineering 627 will not be allowed.

Chemical Engineering 698

Reservoir Characterization for Field Development

A team-based, integrated reservoir description experience working with geophysical, geological, petrophysical, and engineering data to produce a field development plan.
Course Hours: 6 units; (3-0)
Prerequisite(s): Chemical Engineering 621, Geology 697 and Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources 789 and admission to the Master of Engineering with Reservoir Characterization Specialization.
Antirequisite(s): Credit for Chemical Engineering 698 and either 619.95 (Res Characterization Fld Dev I) and 619.96 (Res Characterization Fld DevII) will not be allowed.
Also known as: (Geology 698)

Chemical Engineering 699

Special Project

Project study conducted under the guidance of a faculty member and intended to expose the student to the tools, techniques and basic aspects of research. A written comprehensive report and one or more written progress reports are required.
Course Hours: 3 units; (0-4)
Prerequisite(s): Consent of the Department.
Antirequisite(s): Credit for Chemical Engineering 699 and 620 will not be allowed.
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT

Chemical Engineering 701

Experimental Design and Error Analysis

Statistical analysis and design of engineering experiments. Random variables and sampling distributions; estimation and hypothesis testing; concepts of central tendency, variability, confidence level; correlation, regression and variation analysis; robust estimation; experiments of evaluation; experiments of comparison; factorial experiments (analysis of variance); experimental designs (involving randomization, replication, blocking and analysis of covariance).
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-0)
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MSc or PhD in Chemical and Petroleum Engineering or consent of the Department.
Also known as: (Environmental Engineering 621)

Chemical Engineering 703

Advanced Mathematical Methods in Engineering

Review of theory of linear algebra. Review of ordinary differential equations: linear, non-linear; series solutions; special exact solutions; applications. Partial differential equations: geometric interpretation; characteristic curves; separation of variables; the Sturm-Liouville problem and Fourier series; eigenfunction expansion; Fourier, Laplace and Hankel transforms; self-similarity; Green's function; applications.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-0)
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MSc or PhD in Chemical and Petroleum Engineering or consent of the Department.

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