ChE 333 Chemical Engineering Laboratory I

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ChE 333Chemical Engineering Laboratory I
Instructors Dr. J. Soltan Dr. C. Kotikalapudi

• January 13, 2011

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Contact info

• Instructors Dr. J. Soltan
• Engineering 1C117
• J.soltan_at_usask.ca ph 966-5449
• Dr. C. Kotikalapudi
• Engineering 1C145
• chk880_at_mail.usask.ca ph966-6511

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Contact Info

• Coordinator Dale Claude
• Engineering 1D43
• dale.claude_at_usask.ca ph 966-4707

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Contact info

• Demonstrator/TA Glyn Kennell
• Engineering 0D137
• gfk328_at_mail.usask.ca
• Demonstrator/TA Francisco Sanchez
• Engineering 1C103
• fjs695_at_mail.usask.ca

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Course information

• Website
• http//engrwww.usask.ca/classes/CHE/333/
• Lab location Engineering 1D25
• Lab time
• Monday 1430 1730
• Thursday 1300 1600

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• Text
• - ChE 333.2 Laboratory Manual
• (available online on the course website)
• - S. Jeter, J. Donnell. (2004) Writing style and
  standards in undergraduate reports
• Office Hours open door / email

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What Labs ?

• Fluid Friction in Pipes, Valves and Fittings
• Ion Exchange in Water Softening
• Viscosity
• Centrifugal Pump
• Fluid Metering

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What Courses related?
1. Fluid Friction in Pipes, Valves and Fittings
CHE 210, 320 (Fluid Mechanics) 2. Ion
Exchange in Water Softening 3. Viscosity CHE
210,320 (Fluid Mechanics) 4. Centrifugal Pump
CHE 210, 320 (Fluid Mechanics) 5. Fluid
Metering
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COURSE OBJECTIVES
Develop skills in - Equipment operation -
Data recording - Analysis of the data using
academic theory - Technical report writing in
the selected typical Chem. Eng. processes
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Marking

• Lab performance (4X2.5)
• Lab notebook 10
• Technical letters (2X10)
• Brief report 25
• Formal report 35
• Overall mark 100

No exam
90 - 100 80 - 89 70-79 60-69 50-59 lt50
Exceptional Excellent Good Satisfactory Minimal Pass Failure
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• Plagiarism is DEFINITELY NOT acceptable!
• Copy other peoples report
• Citing without referencing the source
• Plagiarism results in 0 mark for the report
• Be aware of Follow the new University of
  Saskatchewan Academic Honesty/Dishonesty
  definitions, rules and procedures
  www.usask.ca/honesty.

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Due Date and Overdue Penalty

• Due date for the reports
• - 2 weeks after the experiment date.
• - The date of submission is counted by the date
  on which the hard copies of your reports are
  handed in to and signed by Dale Claude.
• AND
• - Electronic copies of the reports must be sent
  to both Dale and instructor by email on the same
  day for verification.
• - When submission on weekends, the date of
  submission of reports by email can be counted,
  however, the hardcopies of your reports must be
  handed in to Dale on the following Monday to
  avoid extra delay penalty.
• - 7 free late hand-in days for the whole course
  
• - Must indicate on your reports when use it to
  avoid late penalty.

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Due Date and Overdue Penalty
Penalty - 10 of the full marks of each report
per week (1.4/day, including weekends, but not
including other statuary Holidays) will be
deducted from the late reports. - Submissions
including lab notebooks will NOT be accepted
after April 8, 2011.
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Requirements

• Lab performance
• Write-ups technical writing
• Fundamentals of each lab

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Laboratory procedure(This slide is courtesy to
J. Wiens ChE333 Conference Notes 2007)
Pre-lab
Lab notebook
Lab notebook
preparation
completion
2 weeks
Lab day
Report due
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Lab performance

• Be prepared for
• Objectives
• Theory / knowledge
• Design of experiment
• Parameters to be measured
• Apparatuses, procedures and principles
• Find out what to learn
• Initiate the contact for the pre-lab help
• with the demonstrators the lab coordinator

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Lab performance
During the experiments

• Follow the experimental procedures
• Record observations in Lab Notebook
• Test the validity of data and/or results
• Pay attention to SAFETY issues
• personnel
• equipment

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Write-ups / Reports

• Technical memo
• Brief report
• Formal report
• Lab notebook during the experiments

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Write-ups / Reports

• Evaluate
• - understanding from the experimental labs.
• - technical writing skills
• Technical content academic theory, results.
• Writing organized, neat
• Language no grammar or typographic error
• Communication clearly delivery

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Write-ups / Reports

• One student is required to hand in
• 2 technical letters
• 1 brief report
• 1 formal report
• 1 lab notebook

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Write-ups / Reports

• No repetition in each group for
• formal report
• brief report
• technical letters

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Write-ups / Reports
You Your partner
Tech. letters Labs A and B Labs C and D
Brief report Lab C Lab A
Formal report Lab D Lab B
Lab notebook Labs A,B,C,D Labs A,B,C,D
In one group, you may label the 4 labs by A, B,
C, and D in your own order. Each member of the
group should keep the same order.
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Lab Notebook

• No sheets of paper
• Permanently bounded recorded
• Briefly outline the title, date performed, names
  of group members, objectives, apparatus,
  experimental conditions and procedures before
  labs
• Suggest making table for recording data
• Record clearly all original observations, simple
  calculations of data, graphs or tables showing
  salient conclusions from the experiments.
• MUST be examined, dated and initialed by the TAs
  before leaving the laboratory

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Lab Notebook

• Refer to ChE 333 class website for
• RULES FOR LABORTORY NOTEBOOKS
• Submit the lab notebook
• at the end of the term for marking

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Technical Memorandum

• Body of text maximum two pages  (single spaced)
• Introduction
• - concise introduction of the system used
• - a brief statement of the objectives of the
  experiment
• - a general description of the procedure
  followed
• Results
• - discussions and comparison of all required
  results with values from literature
• - major equations used, but not mixed with text
  in the same paragraph
• - a brief table of results or major graphs
  attached to support the conclusions. 
• Conclusions and recommendations
• Sign your memo on the last page below the text

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To From (your name, group X) Re (Lab
name) Date (of the preparation of the memo)
Your group logo (optional)
The text of memo is put here below the line.
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ChE 414 - TECHNICAL MEMORANDUM GRADE
SHEET Student ___________________________________
___ Experiment __________________________________
____ Due Date ___/___/___ Date Recd
___/___/___ Late Penalty ___
MAX MARK
PRESENTATION (FORMAT) 3
READABILITY 3
TECHNICAL CONTENT (RESULTS CONCL.) 4
Total 10
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Formal Technical Report(double spaced)

• Title page and Table of Contents
• Abstract
• Table of contents, table of figures, table of
  tables
• Introduction
• Review of theory or literature
• Experimental Section apparatus and procedure
• Results and Discussion
• Conclusions
• Recommendations
• Nomenclature
• References
• Appendices

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Formal Technical Report

• Title page
• Course number
• Name (Your name and state the partners name)
• Lab title
• Prepared for (instructors name)
• Date lab done
• Date report due
• Table of contents

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Formal Technical Report

• Abstract
• State briefly the purpose of the investigation
• Describe briefly how the results are obtained
• Give all required results in a concise and
  quantitative format if possible.
• Use words, no tables, figures and equations
• Normally no more than 250 words.

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Formal Technical Report

• Introduction
• Include information on the subject of the
  investigation and its importance in industry
• Cite the references
• Describe clearly the objectives of the lab.

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Formal Technical Report

• Literature review or theory
• Provide sufficient theoretical background
• to the particular experiments
• Develop the equations or models to correlate your
  experimental data. Number the equations.
• detailed derivation placed in Appendix
• Describe how to obtain the model parameters and
  predict the particular system
• Cite the references

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Formal Technical Report

• Apparatus and Experimental Procedures
• Specify the main apparatuses used
• make, model and use
• Describe the procedures
• Highlight important experimental conditions
• Give the names of quality of the materials.
• Make sure other people can repeat your work and
  obtain the same results if they follow your
  description.

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Formal Technical Report

• Results and Discussions
• Present the significant experiment results
• required in the Lab Manual in words and graphs.
• State the data treatment processes and the
  outcomes.
• Discuss the results of experiments and model
  simulations or predictions.
• Compare your results with that in literatures if
  available.
• Logically discuss and lead to conclusions.

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Attention

• Consistent format
• The unit for every parameters in the equations
  has to be conformed.
• Figures or Tables in the body of text
• Titles of figures, axes, and tables
• Briefly state the experimental conditions
• Experimental data represented by unique symbol
  for each group of data in figures
• Modeling curves different lines with legends
• Show model significance when fitting models

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error bar 95 confidence interval
Modeling the effect of IS on Cr uptakes401 mg
AWUS, 200.2 mL solution
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Formal Technical Report

• Conclusions and Recommendations
• Conclusions should be summarized following the
  discussions.
• Lists your suggestions on how we can improve the
  labs.

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Formal Technical Report

• Nomenclature
• Completely lists the symbols that appear in your
  report, their definition and unit in a
  professional and consistent format.
• Refer to a published paper.

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Formal Technical Report

• References
• Completely lists every reference cited, mentioned
  or used in the text of the report in a
  professional and consistent format.
• Follows either the number order or the
  alphabetical order.

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Formal Technical Report

• Reference format examples
• In the text
• Adams concluded that 1. However, that
  conclusion may be suspicious because 2
• In the Reference section
• References
• 1. Adams, A. B. title of publication.
• 2. Cook, H. M., Author 2,
• Ref Industrial and Engineering Chemistry
  Research
• or in the text
• It was concluded ( Adams, 2001) that .
  However, that conclusion may be suspicious (Davis
  and Volesky, 2001) because (Niu, et. al., 2005)
• References
• Adams, A. B. year, title of publication,
  publisher, page (book)
• Davis, T. and B. Volesky, year, title of paper,
  volume, issue, pages (paper)
• Niu, C., M. Huang and B.Volesky, year .

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Formal Technical Report

• Appendices
• Raw data (neat with tables)
• Calculated data
• Sample calculation (using a set of data to show
  the steps of calculations)
• Tables and Figures

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Appendices(Courtesy to Jason Wiens ChE333
Conference Notes 2007)

• Raw Calculated data in tables
• Sample Calculations
• For example
• 1. Calculation of the volumetric flow rate of air
  through the absorption column

Descriptive title
Equation used
Keep units
Result with proper sig figs
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Brief Technical Report

• Title page and Table of contents
• Summary
• a brief introduction stating the nature and
  purpose of the investigation
• a brief explanation of the procedures and
  apparatuses
• a summary of all the required most significant
  quantitative results 
• Results and Discussion include major graphs or
  tables
• The most important theory should be mentioned
  here.
• Conclusions
• Nomenclature
• Recommendations
• Appendices raw and calculated data and a sample
  calculation
• Absence of abstract, introduction,
  theory/literature review, materials and methods
  sections. No more than 15 pages (double spaced).

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A good report

• Careful measurements
• Correct calculations
• Understanding and use of the theory or models
• Logical discussions
• Correct conclusions
• Organized
• Clarity
• No grammar typographical errors
• References

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Important dates

• 17 Jan First day of labs
• 18 Jan Last day for making changes in
  registration for second-term classes
• 21-26 Feb No classes, Midterm break
• 15 March Last day for withdrawing from
  second-term classes without academic penalty
• 8 Apr Last day of classes
• 8 Apr Last day to hand in laboratory reports and
  laboratory notebooks for marking

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Summary

• Academic theory understanding
• Lab performance
• WRITEUPS
• Successful!