CM3110: Transport/Unit Operations I
Fall 2017

Instructor: Dr. Faith A. Morrison, Professor of Chemical Engineering
Office:     Chemi Sci 304A, 906-487-2050
Email:     fmorriso@mtu.edu

*GENERAL REQUIREMENTS:

Textbooks: 

Required:  Faith A. Morrison, An Introduction to Fluid Mechanics, Cambridge University Press, New York (2013), (available at the bookstore, or $95.26 on amazon.com)
Required:  One of the following:

Christie J. Geankoplis, Transport Processes and Unit Operations, 4th Edition, Prentice Hall, New York (2003).
Christie J. Geankoplis, Transport Processes and Unit Operations, 3rd Edition, Prentice Hall, New York (1993).
Bird, R. B., W. E. Stewart, and E. N. Lightfoot, Transport Phenomena, 2nd edition, Wiley, NY, 2002.  Widely known as “BSL,” the first edition of this book came out in 1960 and the second edition 42 years later, a testimony to the enduring value of this resource.
Bird, R. B., W. E. Stewart, and E. N. Lightfoot, Transport Phenomena, 1st edition, Wiley, NY, 1960.
Welty, James R., Gregory L. Rorrer, and David C. Foster, Fundamentals of Momentum, Heat, and Mass Transfer, 6th edition, Wiley, New York, 2015.

Supplemental:

• Richard Felder and Ronald Rouseau, Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes, 3rd Edition, Wiley, New York, 2005.  (If there is one book you do not sell back to the book store, make it this one; see also my notes on the energy balance information you should retain from having passed CM2110/CM2120: Energy_Balance_Notes_2008.pdf)
• Perry's Handbook of Chemical Engineering, 8th Edition (McGraw-Hill Professional, New York, 2007).  Note that if you join the AIChE (at the national level) you receive access to the online Perry's free.  See the AIChE officers for more information.

Additional, supplemental, reading materials are given on the class website at this link:  www.chem.mtu.edu/~fmorriso/cm310/handouts.html

I strongly recommend that you print and use the unit conversion and physical property sheet I have prepared.  It is available on the supplemental handout page.  The inside front and back covers of the fluids textbook also have important formulas (note there is one typo in the third equation on the inside front cover (Fanning friction factor); see the text's errata page: http://www.chem.mtu.edu/~fmorriso/IFM.html).  The equations on the inside covers are given on the handout page as well.  I recommend that you become accustomed to having these sheets handy and learn to work your problems using them.  These sheets are provided during the exams.

Prerequisites: Differential Equations (MA3520 or MA3521), Calc 3 (MA 3160) and Chemical Engineering Fundamentals II (CM2120) and Physics II (PH2100).  PH2200 is also recommended as it provides problem-solving practice.

This course will make intensive use of all of your math background (units, algebra, calculus, differential equations, vectors, partial derivatives), your physics background (Newton's laws, forces, torques, angular rotation, sig figs), and your chemical engineering background (mass and energy balances, macroscopic energy balances, heat exchangers, friction in flow, pumps).  For a handy sheet of commonly used integrals, see the supplemental handouts link. The first exam is week 2 and it is on prerequisite material.

Class hours: MW 3:05-4:20pm, Fisher 139

Dr. Morrison's office hours: posted on web; other times by arrangement - request by email.

TA:  Mr. Sandeep Challa, office 19-202P, sandeepc@mtu.edu, office hours: tba  and by appointment.  Sunday Evening (6:30-7:30) homework discussion sessions with the TA in Chem Sci 211 are scheduled for each homework and before each exam.

*COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to
1.    Successfully apply the principles governing the transport of momentum (fluid flow) and energy (heat transfer) to chemical engineering systems;
2.    Successfully apply the principles governing momentum and energy balances to simple systems;
3.    Successfully apply the principles governing dimensional analysis to non-simple systems through the use of data correlations.
4.    Successfully apply the general differential balance equations to steady momentum and heat-transfer problems;
5.    Demonstrate familiarity with and the ability to use the solutions of unsteady-state momentum and heat-transfer problems;
6.    Demonstrate familiarity with and the ability to use techniques to apply these subjects to areas such as pump analysis, flow through porous media, fluid meters, heat-exchanger design, and evaporator design.

The Department of Chemical Engineering has adopted Program Educational Objectives that are to be met by your Michigan Tech experience.  These are listed on the Departmental web page and are part of our accreditation program with ABET:  http://www.mtu.edu/chemical/undergraduate/accreditation/. The Chemical Engineering Program Educational Objectives are listed here:

Michigan Tech Chemical Engineering alumni:

1. are successful early and have sustained success in their professional careers;
2. are valued for their hands-on engineering ability and safety culture;
3. have effectively communicated their technical knowledge via publications, reports, the Internet, and other media;
4. are providing service to society;
5. are earning or have earned advanced degrees or have participated in continuing education; and
6. have achieved leadership positions in their chosen professions.

*SYLLABUS The subjects to be covered are indicated in the syllabus:  http://www.chem.mtu.edu/~fmorriso/cm310/schedule.html. The timing of the subjects is approximate and is subject to change.  The subjects are mapped to the Department's ABET program outcomes as shown below.

List of Topics: (CM Department ABET accreditation outcomes addressed as indicated)

(a)              Intro to transport phenomena, turbulence

(a,b)           Fundamentals viscosity

(a)              Velocity distributions in laminar flow

(a,e)           Control volume

(a,e)           Non-Newtonian fluids

(a,e,k)        Navier-Stokes equation

(a,b,e,i)      Dimensional analysis of the Navier-Stokes equation

(a,e)           Macroscopic momentum balances

(a,e)           Compressible fluid flow

(a,e)           Flow past immersed bodies

(a,b,e)        Flow through packed beds

(a,b,e)        Fluidization

(a)              Fans, blowers, compressors

(a)              Agitation and mixing

(a,e)           Introduction to heat transport

(a,b,e)        Fourier's law/calculating temperature profiles

(a,e)           Calculating temperature profiles/flux/boundary conditions

(a,b,e)        Overall heat transfer coefficients

(a,c,e)        Introduction to heat exchangers; derive DT_lm

(a,e)           Calculate temperature profiles with heat generation

(a,e)           Energy equation

(a,e,i,k)      Dimensional Analysis of the energy equation/heat transfer coefficients

(a,e)           Heat transfer coefficients natural convection

(a,e)           Heat transfer coefficients phase change

(a,e)           Heat exchanger Design/fouling

(a,e)           Unsteady state heat transport

(a,e)           Radiation

(k)              Comsol FEM software

*READING: 

The reading assignments are listed on the website.   It is expected that this material will be read prior to class time.  There are "Week 0" readings to assist you in reviewing the prerequisite material (mechanical energy balance, fluid statics, and pumps).  There are also "stretch" readings if you wish to learn more and if you wish to perform near the top of the class.

*EXAMS

There will be four 1.5 hour (90 minute) evening exams plus a two-hour final exam.  The exams will be closed book, closed notes with one 8.5 by 11 sheet, both sides, allowed for formulas.  All exams include some instructor-produced handout tables and formula sheets as well.   An exam may include any topic covered in the course up to the section indicated in the syllabus for that exam.  Prerequisite material may appear on any of the exams.  Last year's exams and solutions and the handout sheets given are posted on the web.  Students who have registered their need for accommodations with the Dean of Students (Disability Services) will be accommodated as appropriate.  University policy requires 5 day advance notice of a request for accommodation.  Note that the first exam is 6 days from the first day of class; please file your accommodation paperwork before the first day of class in order to receive accommodation for the first exam.

Make-up exams will not be given except under extraordinary circumstances and when appropriate documentation is provided (medical, for example). Check the exam schedule and your final exam schedule early and report any conflicts as soon as possible.  There is an exam conflict with Exam 4 and an exam in PH2200.

No cell phone use or internet use of any sort allowed during exams.

*COMPUTER PROJECT 

The Department has the software Comsol Multiphysics 5.2 (www.comsol.com), which is a state-of-the art program for solving differential equations.  It is designed to calculate solutions to the equations of motion and energy that we study in CM3110 and CM3120.  We introduce a computer project after the halfway point of the course.

*GRADING:

First exam: 15%; Second exam: 20%; Third exam: 20%; Fourth exam 20%; Final exam: 25%;
Computer Project (Comsol): 5% 

Scale: 90-105 %A; 86-89 AB; 80-85 B; 76-79 BC; 70-75 C; 66-69 CD; 60-65 D; Less than 60% F

*HOMEWORK

Homeworks are assigned All assigned homeworks are already posted on the web.  The homeworks are designed to focus your attention on the types of calculations that will improve your comprehension of fluid mechanics and heat transfer.  Answers to homeworks are provided on the website; solutions to homeworks are not provided.  The problems on the exams are not modeled on the homework problems, but the homework problems are designed to employ the same problem-solving skills as will be needed to do well on the exam.  Your aim is meant to be to develop those problem-solving skills.  One of these skills is to read the problem carefully and ask appropriate questions to determine how to frame the solution to the problem.  Significant figures always count.

You may work on homeworks with your classmates.  You may ask for homework help from the TA or from the instructor or from anyone else.  The TA will hold evening homework discussion sessions as scheduled on the syllabus and posted in the course announcements. Our TA will also hold office hours and accept appointments with students or student groups.

Homework problem of two types have been assigned:  basic and stretch.  Stretch homework problems are provided for students who aspire to top comprehension and top class performance.  Your best preparation for the exams is to attend lectures, do the readings, do the homework, see the professor or TA with questions you have on the homeworks and lectures.  Starting the problem (setting it up) is typically the hardest part of a flow/heat-transfer modeling problem.  Simply reading over solutions is not good preparation for actually carrying out a calculation yourself.

*STUDY GROUPS 

You are encouraged to work together in study groups to trade ideas on how to solve problems and to help to teach each other the subject.  The students who have done best in the past formed a study group (4-8 students) and met regularly to work on the homework.  They came to instructor office hours regularly with any questions they could not resolve themselves.

In Fall 2017 I'm piloting using a Google Sheet to exchange emails among students who wish to form a study group.  The link is here.  Give it a try.

I recommend that you form a group and select a weekly meeting time in advance of the TA's homework sessions (select Sundays, 6:30-7:30pm).  Then, come to the homework sessions and ask questions about the problems you had trouble with.  This is more effective than coming to the homework sessions without having worked on the homeworks.

OXE is sponsoring a Chemical Engineering Learning Center on Mondays and Wednesdays.  Their first day is 11 September 2017  from 5-7 p.m. in Chem. Sci. 215.  Except during Thanksgiving Break, from that point on, the Learning Center will be open Mondays and Wednesdays from 6-7 in Chem. Sci. 215.  Contact Dillon Gronseth (dcgronse@mtu.edu) for more information.

*CHEATING

Cheating of any form will not be tolerated.  All exam work must be your own; what you submit for your Comsol project must be your own work.  Any student found to be cheating would be reported to the Dean of Students. The punishment for plagiarism ranges from an F in the course to expulsion.

Working together on homeworks is permitted and encouraged; homeworks are not submitted.

*ADDITIONAL  READING

CM3110 only covers the most basic aspects of fluid mechanics and heat transfer. If you are interested in pursuing graduate school upon graduating from Michigan Tech, I encourage you to pursue additional readings on fluid mechanics and heat transport while taking this course. I recommend that you read the unassigned chapters of our text; for heat transfer you may find the following text to be useful:

Frank P. Incropera, David P. DeWitt, Theodore L. Bergman, Adrienne S. Lavinem, Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer, Wiley, New York (2006).

I also encourage you to take the graduate transport course CM5300, if possible. If you are interested in learning more about non-Newtonian fluids, consider taking CM4650 Polymer Rheology (www.chem.mtu.edu/~fmorriso/cm4650/cm4650.html); which I teach in the spring, alternate years (spring 2018 is the next offering).  CM4650 also gives additional background on Newtonian fluid mechanics; it is a heavily mathematical course.

*EMERGENCY EVACUATION PROCEDURES

Important: The Michigan Bureau of Fire Services has adopted new rules for colleges and universities effective 2015

1.  Only residence halls are required to hold fire and tornado drills.
2.  In lieu of fire drills in other university buildings all faculty and instructional staff are required to do the following on the first day of class:
     - Explain the university fire evacuation procedures to the class (see below).
     - Explain the locations of the primary and secondary exit routes for your class location.
     - Explain your designated safe location where the class will meet after evacuating the building.
3.  The class instructor is responsible for directing the class during a building evacuation.

General evacuation procedure:
- Use the nearest safe exit route to exit the building.  The nearest safe exit from room 15-139 is the front (south) entrance that is close to highway 41.  The secondary exit is the campus (north) exit, that connects to the main path through campus.
- Close all doors on the way out to prevent the spread of smoke and fire.
- After exiting, immediately proceed to a safe location at least 100 feet from the building.  Our designated safe location is east of Fisher, in the parking lot of the Center for Diversity and Inclusion.
- Do not re-enter the building until the all-clear is given by Public Safety or the fire department.

*UNIVERSITY POLICIES

The Michigan Tech University Senate Policy states that this course syllabus must provide information on university policies, including those related to academic integrity, disability services and institutional equity. Since policies and web links to these policies could change over time,we have been encouraged to include the following web link to provide up-to-date information:  http://www.mtu.edu/ctl/instructional-resources/syllabus/policies.html.

Assessment:
www.admin.mtu.edu/usenate/policies/p312-1.htm
Student work products (exams, essays, projects, etc.) may be used for the purposes of university, program, or course assessment. All work used for assessment purposes will not include any individual student identification.

*FINAL STATEMENT