| COURSE #: ChE 444 | COURSE TITLE: Applied Chemical Kinetics | |
| TERMS OFFERED: Winter | PREREQUISITES:
Chem 260 Chemical Principles OR Chem 261 Intro. to Quantum Chemistry ChE 344 Reaction Engineering and Design |
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| TEXTBOOKS/REQUIRED MATERIAL: | COGNIZANT FACULTY: Savage, Thompson
DATE OF PREPARATION: Last Revision: 3/29/99 FACULTY APPROVAL: 3/29/99 |
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| INSTRUCTOR(S): Savage | SCIENCE/DESIGN: 3 / 0 | |
| CATALOG DESCRIPTION:
Fundamentals of chemical and engineering kinetics from a molecular perspective. Relationship between kinetics and mechanism. Kinetics of elementary steps in gas, liquid, and supercritical fluid reaction media. Gas-solid and surface reactions. Heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis. Kinetics and mechanisms of chemical processes such as polymerization, combustion, and enzymatic reactions. |
COURSE TOPICS: (number of hours in parentheses)
1. Gas Phase Reactions (9) 2. Liquid Phase Reactions (6) 3. Supercritical Fluid Phase Reactions (3) 4. Environmentally Benign Chemical Processes - Pollution Prevention (3) 5. Gas-Solid Reactions and Surface Reactions (6) 6. Relationship between Kinetics and Mechanisms (3) 7. Case Studies (polymerization, thermal cracking, catalysis, etc.) (9) |
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| COURSE OBJECTIVES
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Links shown in brackets are to course outcomes that satisfy these objectives.
1. To expose students to the molecular basis for chemical reactions [2,3,5,6] 2. To give students a working knowledge of the chemical kinetics literature [1] 3. To train students how to use reaction mechanisms as a basis for mathematical kinetics models [2,3,4,5] 4. To show students how and why reaction rates can be sensitive to the reaction medium [6] 5. To teach students the role of kinetics and catalysis in pollution prevention [7] |
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COURSE OUTCOMES
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1. identify some research frontiers and critique current research in chemical kinetics [7,10] 2. develop a reaction rate expression for a given reaction mechanism [1,12] 3. propose a mechanism consistent with an experimentally determined rate law [1,12] 4. use experimental data to estimate parameters in a rate law [1,2,11] 5. assess whether numerical values of kinetics parameters are chemically meaningful and consistent with theory [12] 6. rationalize reaction medium effects in terms of fundamental chemical or physical principles [1,12] 7. identify strategies for and issues involved in pollution prevention [6,8,10,12,13] |
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| ASSESSMENT TOOLS |
2. Open book exams assess outcomes 2-7 3. A journal article critique assesses outcome 1 4. End of term course evaluation provides student self-assessment of outcomes 1-7 |
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