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Chemical Engineering
607
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Natural Gas Processing Principles
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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.
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Chemical Engineering
609
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Natural Gas Processing Technology
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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.
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Chemical Engineering
613
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Advanced Topics in Mass Transfer
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Advanced concepts in mass transfer in multiphase systems. Mass transfer with simultaneous chemical reaction and heat transfer.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-0)
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Chemical Engineering
615
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Model Predictive Control
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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)
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Chemical Engineering
617
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Modelling and Identification Advanced Control
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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)
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Chemical Engineering
619
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Special Problems
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Advanced studies on specialized topics in chemical, petroleum, biochemical and environmental engineering.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-0)
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT
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Chemical Engineering
620
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Graduate Project
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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.
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Chemical Engineering
621
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Reservoir Simulation
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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.
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Chemical Engineering
623
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Chemical Reactor Design
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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)
Prerequisite(s):
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Chemical Engineering
625
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Advanced Topics in Heat Transfer
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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)
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Chemical Engineering
627
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Chemical Process Simulation
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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)
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Chemical Engineering
629
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Secondary and Tertiary Recovery
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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.
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Chemical Engineering
630
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Electrochemical Engineering
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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.
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Chemical Engineering
631
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Advanced Topics in Fluid Mechanics
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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)
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Chemical Engineering
633
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Chemical Thermodynamics
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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)
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Chemical Engineering
638
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Polymer Science and Engineering
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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)
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Chemical Engineering
639
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Applied Numerical Methods in Engineering
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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)
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Chemical Engineering
643
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Air Pollution Control Engineering
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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)
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Chemical Engineering
645
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Industrial and Produced Wastewater Treatment
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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)
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Chemical Engineering 645 and Environmental Engineering 661 will not be allowed.
Also known as:
(Environmental Engineering 661)
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Chemical Engineering
647
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Thermal Recovery Methods
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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.
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Chemical Engineering
649
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Naturally Fractured Reservoirs
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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)
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Chemical Engineering
650
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C02 Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS): Principles, Technologies, and Analysis
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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 C02 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)
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Chemical Engineering
653
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Horizontal Wells for Petroleum Production
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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.
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Chemical Engineering
657
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Advanced Reservoir Engineering
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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.
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Chemical Engineering
659
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Advanced Cell and Tissue Engineering
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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.
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Chemical Engineering 659 and Biomedical Engineering 619.06 (Adv Cell & Tissue Engineering) will not be allowed.
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Chemical Engineering
661
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Geostatistics for Reservoir Characterization
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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.
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Chemical Engineering
665
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Wastewater Issues for the Oil and Gas Industry
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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)
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Chemical Engineering 665 and Environmental Engineering 665 will not be allowed.
Also known as:
(Environmental Engineering 665)
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Chemical Engineering
669
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Fundamentals of Transport Phenomena
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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 and Petroleum Engineering, with a specialization in Chemical Engineering or Engineering, Energy & Environment.
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Chemical Engineering
671
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Science and Technology of Catalysis
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Catalytic Science and Kinetic Analysis, Thermodynamically and kinetically controlled catalytic processes, reaction modeling 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)
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Chemical Engineering
673
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Engineering Principles in Biotechnology
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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)
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Chemical Engineering
675
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Data Science and Machine Learning in Chemical Engineering
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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)
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Chemical Engineering
677
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Advanced Oil and Gas Engineering
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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 523.
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Chemical Engineering
687
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Energy System Economics
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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))
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Chemical Engineering
689
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Drilling Advances, Modelling and Simulation
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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 or Petroleum Engineering 627 will not be allowed.
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Chemical Engineering
698
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Reservoir Characterization for Field Development
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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 or 619.96 will not be allowed.
Also known as:
(Geology 698)
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Chemical Engineering
699
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Special Project
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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
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Chemical Engineering
701
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Experimental Design and Error Analysis
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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)
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Chemical Engineering
703
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Advanced Mathematical Methods in Engineering
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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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