All students entering ChE 201 must be able to:

Mathematics

• Find the equation of a line given two points.
• Integrate a polynomial expression.
• Rearrange an algebraic equation so it is explicit in one variable and solve.
• Solve equations by trial-and-error or successive approximation when appropriate.
• Calculate the perimeter and area of triangles, circles, and rectangles.
• Calculate the surface area and volume of spheres, cylinders, and rectangular boxes.
• Perform linear interpolation between values in a table.
• Represent a function, its integral, and its derivative on a graph.
• Correctly manipulate expressions containing logarithms, exponentials, and powers.

English

• Read, write, and speak in Standard English.
• Proofread written work.

Physics

• Define variables to represent real quantities.
• Define equations to represent real processes and relationships between quantities.
• Present problem solutions logically, with a diagram and with appropriate equations.
• Check that answers are of reasonable magnitude and that significant figures are reasonable.
• Associate appropriate units with all quantities.
• Convert between different unit systems, given conversion factors.
• Define potential and kinetic energy.
• Write equations for kinetic and for gravitational potential energy.
• Define power.

Chemistry

• Define variables to represent real quantities.
• Define equations to represent real processes and relationships between quantities.
• Present problem solutions logically, with a diagram (if appropriate) and with appropriate equations.
• Check that answers are of reasonable magnitude and that significant figures are reasonable.
• Associate appropriate units with all quantities.
• Convert between different unit systems, given conversion factors.
• Convert between mass and moles, given the molecular weight of a substance.
• Calculate compositions of mixtures in weight per cent, weight fraction, mole per cent, mole fraction, and molarity.
• State the ideal gas law.
• Explain that intermolecular forces are neglected in an "ideal gas".
• Identify conditions under which real gases typically behave ideally.
• Define boiling point, normal boiling point, and melting point.
• Define internal energy.
• Define heat capacity.
• Define heat of formation, heat of reaction, endothermic, exothermic.
• Define heat of solution.
• Define heat of vaporization, heat of fusion.
• State that melting and vaporization require energy; condensation and solidification release energy.
• Use Hess’s Law to calculate heats of reaction from heats of formation.
• Balance chemical equations.
• State the chemical compositions/structures of common substances (water, air, table salt, methane, methanol, ethanol, acetylene, ethylene, benzene, toluene, linear alkanes, hydrochloric acid, sodium hydroxide)
• Explain the relationship between pH, H+, and OH-.
• Explain the relationship between solubility and precipitation.

Computers

• Use a word processor.
• Send text messages via e-mail.
• Search for information on the World Wide Web.
• Search for information in the Ohio University Libraries electronic catalog system.
• Start Matlab and open, save, or run an m-file.

Engineering

• Define variables to represent real quantities.
• Define equations to represent real processes and relationships between quantities.
• Present problem solutions logically, with a diagram and with appropriate equations.
• Identify all assumptions in a problem solution.
• Check that answers are of reasonable magnitude and that significant figures are reasonable.
• Associate appropriate units with all quantities.
• Recognize and work with common units in both the American and metric systems.
• State the conservation equation "In - Out + Generation = Accumulation".
• Define accumulation as "the change in some property with time".
• Define steady state as "accumulation is zero" and "no properties change with time".
• Distinguish between an open system and a closed system.
• Convert between mass flow rate, molar flow rate, and volumetric flow rate.
• State the nitrogen and oxygen content of air.
• State the density, normal boiling point, and normal melting point of water.
• State the atomic weights (rounded to integers) of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen.
• Given two of the following quantities, calculate the third: volumetric fluid flow rate, pipe diameter, average fluid velocity.
• Define saturated and superheated vapor.
• Use the Ideal Gas Law appropriately to calculate gas properties.
• Use the Antoine Equation to calculate the vapor pressure of a substance given the temperature, or the temperature given the vapor pressure.
• Use a T-xy diagram to find the amount and composition of each phase in problems involving two-phase, two-component systems.
• Explain Raoult’s Law.
• Balance chemical equations.
• Given two of the following quanitites, calculate the third: reactor inlet composition, single pass reactor conversion, reactor outlet composition.
• Calculate the stoichiometric amount of air required for a combustion reaction, and the amount of air fed for a given per cent excess air.

Prerequisites - Accomplishment

Students entering ChE 201 should be approaching mastery of the following skills, which will be reinforced in ChE 201:

• Explain the purpose of flash tanks, reactors, pumps, evaporators, distillation columns, liquid-liquid extraction columns, and crystallizers.
• Analyze the steady state operation of a chemical process, considering matter.
• Sketch the process from a description, or describe the process from a sketch.
• Identify parts of the process that involve changes in composition (chemical, physical)
• Calculate the flow rate and composition of all streams.
• Specify a "system" or "control volume".
• Make appropriate assumptions.
• Write equations and identify the data required (given, look up, estimate).
• Solve equations (linear, non-linear, simultaneous).
• Evaluate calculations using engineering judgement and fundamental principles of science.

Students should be able to accomplish the following Matlab tasks with occasional reference to the tutorials or manual:

• Write m-files and function m-files in which a series of commands in a logical order correctly complete a calculation.
• Comment m-files and format output appropriately (labels, units, etc.).
• Use "for" and "if-then" structures and counters.
• Perform calculations with scalars, vectors, and arrays.
• Properly distinguish between element-by-element and array operations.
• Use fsolve or fzero to complete a "trial-and-error"-type solution of a single equation.
• Make plots with labeled axes.

Last modified 03/09/99