MATERIAL, ENERGY AND ENTROPY BALANCES (CHME-2010)

FALL 2014
Primary Instructor: Prof. Pankaj Karande
Co-Instructors:

Prof. Jonathan Dordick

Prof. Shekhar Garde

Contact:

Office: 3217 CBIS

E-mail: karanp@rpi.edu

Class Hours:

Monday 2:00 3:50 pm

Thursday 2:00 3:50 pm

Course Location:

Eaton 214

TAs:

Christine Lee, 4216 CBIS, E-mail: leec19@rpi.edu

Eugene Wu, 3231 CBIS, E-mail: wue2@rpi.edu

Office Hours:

Tuesday:
4:00-5:30 pm, Coonley Lounge (Ricketts)
Wednesday: 10:45 am-12:15 pm, Coonley Lounge (Ricketts)
Friday:
1:00-2:30, Coonley Lounge (Ricketts)

Texts:

R. M. Felder and R.W. Rousseau, Elementary Principles of Chemical

Processes (3rd Edition), Wiley, New York
J.M. Smith, H.C. Van Ness, and M.M. Abbott, Introduction to Chemical
Engineering Thermodynamics (7th Edition), McGraw-Hill, New York

Required tools to bring to each class:

Calculator, IClicker Remote, Textbooks

Essential Background for Course

First-year college mathematics, first-year college chemistry, and a semester of college physics.
We assume proficiency in basic differential and integral calculus, including the ability to deal
with functions of several independent variables.
Course Learning Outcomes
The concepts of material and energy balances are pervasive to the engineering sciences. In this
course, we will teach students how to develop equations of balance for mass, moles, energy,
and entropy, and apply them to problems and processes of interest to chemical & biological
engineers. On successful completion of the course, the student should be able to perform the
following:

To prepare and use elementary process flow sheets for solving material balance
problems
To solve material balance problems using appropriate equations of state and application
of Raoult's law
To use the laws of thermodynamics to perform energy balances
To use the laws of thermodynamics to perform entropy balances

Attendance
This is not a correspondence course. Lectures will contain substantial explanatory and/or
motivational material, and will in no way constitute blind regurgitations of the texts. Attendance
is therefore essential, and expected. Each student is responsible for all materials presented and
all announcements made in class.
Homework
Doing promotes learning. Hence, homework will be assigned on a regular basis but will not be
collected each week. Instead, students will grade their own homework and bring all homeworks
they chose to report to the review session before each exam to show the TAs. On the first page
of the collection of homeworks, the students must write: I have tried all problems that I am
reporting without first consulting the solutions, I have completed each problem that I am
reporting, and I have confirmed that each problem that I am reporting is correct. The students
must also sign their name below this statement, as well as assign themselves a grade (X
problems completed / Y problems assigned, which does not include extra problems that are
assigned). The day of the review session is the only day homeworks can be reported to the TA
for a grade.
Quizzes (and IClickers)
We will give a quiz at the end of most lectures to evaluate your understanding of material.
These quizzes will utilize IClickers. Therefore, you are required to bring your IClicker remote to
every
class.
Moreover,
you
need
to
register
your
remote
ASAP
at
http://www.iclicker.com/registration/ to your RCS ID, NOT YOUR RIN. IClickers must be
registered every semester. Thus, everyone must register their IClicker this semester. Otherwise,
you will not receive a grade for your IClicker quizzes. The scoring of the quizzes will be graded
as 100% for correct, 75% for incorrect and 0% for not submitted. The lowest 4 IClicker quizzes
will be dropped for each student. Therefore, if a student forgets their IClicker or misses
class, the 0 quiz grade will be counted as one of the four dropped quiz grades
(students cannot make up IClicker quizzes if they miss class or submit their quiz
response on paper). Using other students IClickers is equivalent to cheating and will be
treated as such (failure of quiz on first offense and failure of course on second offense). Do not,
under any circumstances, use someone elses IClicker (we routinely count the number of
students present during iClicker quizzes and match this against the number of responses).
Moreover, we reserve the right to award any student a 0 quiz grade that arrives to class more
than 30 minutes late regardless of whether they enter an IClicker answer.
Exams
Mid-Semester Exams: Two exams will be given according to the syllabus presented below.
Acceptable excuses for absence from an examination are: 1) a medical excuse validated by the
Student Experience office or 2) an appropriate statement from the Student Experience office,
presented to Prof. Karande in advance of the examination. The exams are closed book and
closed notes, but a single crib sheet (front and back, handwritten only) is allowed. We are
looking for clear fundamental understanding of the material; a good measure of understanding
is the ability to tackle new problems with acquired skills. Partial credit will be given. If you are
allowed extra time on exams due to personal reasons that are validated by the Dean of
Students, you must provide Prof. Karande with signed documentation from the Dean of
Students by the second week of class so that appropriate arrangements can be made.
Final Exam: There will be a three-hour final cumulative exam, which all students will take.
Students are allowed to bring three pages of notes (front and back, handwritten only) to the final
exam. In no case will a student be excused from taking the final exam on the appointed
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exam date (which could be as late as the evening of December 16th) due to their travel
schedule.
Course Grading
Class participation = 5%
Homework = 10%
Quizzes = 10%
Exam I = 23%
Exam II = 23%
Final Exam = 29%
Total = 100%
Grading decisions are our responsibility. We do not grade capriciously, but grading mistakes are
inevitable. If you wish to contest an exam grade, please submit your exam with a clearly
written explanation of why you deserve more points to Prof. Karande within one week of
receipt of your graded exam (do not write in the graded exam book). After your entire exam is
re-evaluated by Prof. Karande, your exam grade is final and will not be re-evaluated further. The
TAs cannot change exam grades. There are no regrades allowed on the final exams.
Assessment of Student Progress
We work hard to provide feedback to students regarding their understanding of the course
material through IClicker quizzes in nearly every class. This is the primary mechanism by which
students should assess their progress in this course. In addition, we will provide general metrics
such as the minimum, maximum and average grade on each exam. We will also provide a
histogram showing the distribution of grades for the entire class so each student can measure
his/her performance relative to the class average. The individual grades on each exam will not
be curved. The final grade will be.
Academic Integrity
Student-teacher relationships are built on trust. For example, students must trust that teachers
have made appropriate decisions about the structure and content of the courses they teach, and
teachers must trust that the assignments that students turn in are their own. Acts, which violate
this trust, undermine the educational process. The Rensselaer Handbook of Student Rights and
Responsibilities defines various forms of Academic Dishonesty and you should make yourself
familiar with these. All quizzes and exams turned in for a grade must be the students own work.
No communication between students or use of written, typed and/or electronic information in
any form is allowed during the quizzes or exams unless by explicit written consent from Prof.
Karande. The penalties are a grade of zero on the corresponding exam or quiz for the first
offense and failure of the class for the second offense. Finally, sending text messages via
wireless devices is not allowed during quizzes or exams, and will result in a grade of zero on the
corresponding quiz or exam for the first offense and failure of the class on the second offense. If
you have any questions concerning this policy before taking a quiz or exam, please ask Prof.
Karande for clarification.
Classroom Conduct
We highly encourage students to ask questions during class and ask that others be respectful
and patient with such questions. Moreover, we reserve the right to remove any student from the
classroom if, in our opinion, they disrupt the learning of others. Repeated offenses will result in
expulsion from the class.

In addition, laptop computers are not to be used during class, unless students obtain permission
from Prof. Karande prior to the start of class for unusual, one-time exceptions such as
registration for Spring courses. Students using eBooks as textbooks cannot use their laptops in
class. These students should bring appropriate printed pages to class, such as the problem sets
at the end of each chapter, and the conversion and data tables commonly used in class.

MATERIAL, ENERGY, AND ENTROPY BALANCES (CHME-2010): FALL 2014

Tentative Schedule of Events and Course Outline (subject to change)
Date
8-25
JD
8-28
SG
9-1
9-4
PK
9-8
JD
9-11
JD
9-15
PK
9-18
PK
9-22
PK
9-25
PK
9-29
PK
10-2
10-6
PK
10-9
PK
10-13
10-14
(Tues)
SG
10-16
JD
10-20
PK
10-23
PK
10-27
PK
10-30
PK
11-3
JD/SG
11-6
JD/SG
11-10
TAs
11-13
PK
11-17

Lecture
1

Topic
Introduction, dimensional analysis

Textbook*

Mass and volume, flow rate, chemical composition

Ch. 3

No Class (Labor Day)

Pressure and material balances, Lecture #1

Ch. 3

Material balances, Lecture #2

Ch. 4

Material balances, Lecture #3

Ch. 4

Single phase systems, Lecture #1

Ch. 5

Single phase systems, Lecture #2

Ch. 5

Multiphase systems, Lecture #1

Ch. 6

Multiphase systems, Lecture #2

Ch. 6

10

Summary and Exam #1 review

Ch. 2-6

11

Exam #1 (Lectures 1-10)

Energy balances, Lecture #1

Ch. 7

12

Energy balances, Lecture #2

Ch. 7

13

No class (Columbus day)

Energy balances, Lecture #3

Ch. 8

14

Energy balances, Lecture #4

Ch. 8

15

Energy balances, reactive processes, Lecture #1

Ch. 9

16

Energy balances, reactive processes, Lecture #2

Ch. 9

17

Energy balances, reactive processes, Lecture #3

Ch. 9

18

Energy balances, reactive processes, Lecture #4

Ch. 9

19

Entropy balances, Lecture #1

SVNA Ch. 5

20

Entropy balances, Lecture #2

SVNA Ch. 5

21

Event**

Ch. 2
IClicker must
be
registered

Exam 1

Problem solving session

Ch. 7-9

Summary and Exam #2 review

Ch. 7-9
Exam 2

Exam #2 (Lectures 11-21)

11-20
22
Power cycles
JD
11-24
No Class (Thanksgiving)
11-27
23
Power cycles and refrigeration
PK
12-1
24
Summary and Final Exam review
PK
12-4
25
Optional Problem solving session
TAs
*
Unless prefixed by "SNVA", readings and problems are from F&R.

SVNA Ch. 7

SVNA Ch. 8
SVNA Ch. 5-8
All Material