Bachelor of Science in Chemical and Water Desalination Engineering

0408171

Introduction to Chemical and Water Desalination Engineering

This course covers the fundamentals of chemical and water desalination engineering. It introduces the chemical and water desalination engineering discipline, profession, ethical responsibilities, and sustainable issues of chemical water desalination engineering processes. Core topics that are addressed in the course include dimensions and units, chemical and water desalination engineering process diagrams, process variables, and principles of mass balance, principles of energy balance, mass balance for reactive system, energy balance for reactive system and simultaneous mass and energy balance. In addition, the course will introduce topics such as artificial intelligence, entrepreneurship, data analytics as they relate to the Chemical and Water Desalination Engineering discipline.

Pre-requisite: None.

1420201

General Chemistry 2

This course focuses on Rates of reactions; chemical equilibrium; acids and bases; thermodynamics; electrochemistry; Redox Reactions and Electrochemistry.

Pre-requisite: 1420101

0408283

Water Resources and Management

This course covers comprehensive introduction to water cycle, surface, groundwater and alternative water resources, water resources planning and management, water demand management, integrated water resources management, water quality, water law and water economics. Specific emphasis on water resources for arid region is also covered.

Pre-requisite: 0408171

0408284

Water Chemistry and Analysis

Apply chemical equilibrium principles for: acids-bases reactions, dissolution-precipitation reactions, oxidation-reduction reactions, and complexation reactions to understand the chemistry of surface waters, ground waters, and water and wastewater treatment.

Pre-requisite: 1420101

0408285

Water Chemistry and Analysis Lab

Apply chemical equilibrium principles for: acids-bases reactions, dissolution-precipitation reactions, oxidation-reduction reactions, and complexation reactions to understand the chemistry of surface waters, ground waters, and water and wastewater treatment.

Pre-requisite: 0408284

0408286

Chemical Thermodynamics I

The first law of thermodynamics is studied in detail. Material covered includes concepts of energy, enthalpy, heat effects, conservation of energy, interaction between heat transfer, mechanical work and chemical energy liberation, equation of state, behavior of gases and liquids and standard heat of reaction, formation and combustion. Study of combined mass and energy balances and the principles of the second and third law of thermodynamics are also covered.

Pre-requisite: 1440161, 1420101

0408273

Applied Fluid Mechanics

This course aims to introduce the fundamentals fluid mechanics and its applications in chemical and water desalination engineering. Topics to be covered by this course will include fluid and fluid statics; fluid properties and fluid flow; mass, momentum, and energy balance; internal flows; external flows; and sizing and selection of fluid moving equipment.

Pre-requisite: 1430115, 1440161

0408275

Fundamental of Thermal Desalination Processes

The Course covers comprehensive introduction to the thermal desalination to gain a basic understanding of different types, of thermal technologies as well as their present and future technical relevance and economic impact. The course is concentrated on the discussion of selected fundamental and application related aspects. Following to a comprehensive introduction, some fundamental thermodynamic and mathematical relations necessary for an understanding of the thermal desalination in the various processes and their applications will be covered.

Pre-requisite: 0408171

0408276

Material Processing Engineering

This course provides a general description about classification and fundamental characteristics of materials including metals, ceramics, polymers, and composites. The types of crystal structures and imperfections in solids are described. The course also covers diffusion, phase diagrams, characteristics, properties, and processing of metals, ceramics, and polymers.

Pre-requisite: 1420101, 1430115

0408289

Chemical Thermodynamics 2

This course is designed to give the chemical engineering students a theoretical basis in the application of basic concepts of thermodynamic. The topics covered include thermodynamic properties of fluids, ideal and non-ideal behavior, phase equilibria, solution thermodynamics, and chemical equilibria.

Pre-requisite: 0408286

0408277

Principles of Heat Transfer

In this course, the principles of heat transfer, fluid mechanics and thermodynamics will be combined to study the design of the thermal system. At the end of the course the student will be able to step by step design different types of heat exchangers and evaporators that is related to thermal desalinations process. Topics covered include: Heat transfer in Boiling and condensation, design of Heat exchangers and evaporators, and simulation of thermal system and optimization.

Pre-requisite: 0408286

0408287

Mass Transfer and Separation Processes

The course will cover principles of mass transfer and its application to separation processes. Topics covered in this course will include molecular diffusions; steady state and unsteady state mass transfer; convective mass transfer and separation processes such as distillation, extraction, humification and absorption. The course will also discuss the analogies between momentum, heat and mass transfer.

Pre-requisite: 0408286, 0408273

0408288

Transport Processes Lab

This lab course introduces experiments on transport processes for chemical and water desalination engineering based on topics covered in Chemical Thermodynamics and Applied Fluid Mechanics. Experiments will be selected from several categories, fluid properties and fluid flow conditions, application of Bernoulli equation; internal and external flow; thermodynamics properties of matter, phase change and phase transition. The emphasis of this course is on providing students with experimental skills, tools, and acumen to carry out any relevant experiments, analyze data, prepare Lab report and team work.

Pre-requisite: 0408286, 0408273

1420201

Organic Chemistry for Engineers

This course offers students the opportunity to learn the general principles of organic chemistry related to nomenclature, structure, stereochemistry, uses and synthesis. Contents covered include structure, nomenclature, bonding, isomerism, stereochemistry, and properties of organic compounds.

Pre-requisite: 1420103

0408384

Instrumentation Analysis for Chemical Engineering

This course will provide students a solid knowledge in the chemistry of separation and identification. It introduces students to many analytical techniques and instruments that are widely used in different laboratories in the fields of chemistry, chemical engineering, environmental, water desalination and many other industrial applications. The course is divided into four sections focused on the instrumental aspect in analytical chemistry. The first introductory section presents a review of chemometry and detailed description of the sample preparation techniques. The second section covers a wide range of spectroscopic methods and instruments based on atomic and molecular spectroscopy (components of optical instruments, optical atomic spectrometry, atomic absorption and atomic fluorescence spectrometry, atomic emission spectrometry, molecular luminescence spectrometry). The third section focuses on the separation methods (liquid, gas, supercritical-fluid, chiral and capillary electrophoresis chromatography) and the related hyphenated (coupled) techniques (GC/MS, HPLC/APCI-APPI-ESI/MS) and the fourth section includes the theory and applications of the microscopy and thermal analysis.

Pre-requisite: 0408284, 1420201

0408379

Membrane Technology

The Course covers introduction to the membrane science and technology for water treatment and desalination industry. Topics covered include pressure driven membranes such as reverse osmosis, nanofiltration, ultrafiltration and microfiltration; applications in water and desalination industry; organic and inorganic membranes; membrane fabrication and characterization, fabrication of polymeric and ceramic membranes; fundamental thermodynamic and transport in membranes; and membrane fouling.

Pre-requisite: 0408286, 0408276

0408386

Process Modeling and Simulation

The course is divided into three parts: Modeling and Simulation using MATLAB (Part I), HYSYS (Part II), and SimaPro (Part III). Contents covered in Part I include Rules on Variables and File Names, Reserved Characters, Vectors, MATLAB Commands and Functions, Arrays and their Operations, Matrices and their Operations, “For” Loops, “If” Condition, Structures, Script and Function m-files, and Graph Plotting (Line Plot, 2D Bar Graph, Surface Plot, Contour Plots, Customizing Graphical Effects). In Part II, contents on modeling using HYSYS, including User Interface and Physical Properties, Flowsheets, and Unit Operation Models are covered. Part 3 entails contents in SimaPro modeling including Goal and Scope, Life Cycle Inventory (LCI), Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA), and Data Interpretation. In all parts, the simulation of desalination processes, specifically reverse osmosis and multi-stage flash desalination, are covered.

Pre-requisite: 1440161

0408385

Chemical Reaction Engineering

This course introduces the principles and applications of chemical reaction engineering. Topics to be covered in this course include: mole balance, stoichiometry, the rate law, conversion and reactor sizing, Isothermal reactor design, multiple reactions, catalysis and catalytic reactions.

Pre-requisite: 0408286

0408280

Principles of Water Treatment Technologies

The course aims to provide the students with a background in the theory, operation and design of various physical, chemical, biological, and thermal water treatment processes for controlling water quality. Topics include preliminary treatment, coagulation and flocculation, sedimentation, gravity and pressure filtration, activated sludge process, waste sludge treatment, adsorption, ion exchange, membrane filtration including membrane bioreactor, disinfection, electrochemical and advanced oxidation processes, thermal distillation and evaporation, and case studies.

Pre-requisite: 0408283

0405221

Engineering Probability and Statistics

Descriptive statistics and sampling, sample space and events, axioms of probability, conditional probability, statistical independence, Bayes theorem, discrete probability distributions (uniform, binomial, geometric, Poisson), continuous probability distributions (normal, exponential, gamma and Weibull), joint probability distribution, point estimation, central limit theorem, interval estimation, use of statistical software.

Pre-requisite: 1440133

0408380

Membrane Separation Processes

The course will cover in more detail the principles of Membranes (Membrane Classifications and Membrane Configurations), design of Membrane Processes (Operation Modes and Membrane Fouling). Design of membrane-based desalination processes such as: (Microfiltration, Ultra-filtration) for pretreatment, Nanofiltration, Forward and Reverse osmosis, Electro-dialysis, Electro-dialysis reversal, and Membrane distillation. Performance degradation (membrane fouling, scaling, concentration polarization, and compaction), and Membrane cleaning and regeneration. Industrial membrane-based desalination units. Energy consumption using different membrane-based.

Pre-requisite: 0408379

0408372

Pre and Post Treatment for Desalination Plants

The course aims to provide the students with a background of the theory, operation and design of various advanced physical and chemical seawater Pre and Post treatment technologies used for desalination.

Pre-requisite: 0408280

0408370

Thermal System Design and Analysis

In this course, the principles of heat transfer, fluid mechanics and thermodynamics will be combined to study the design of the thermal system. At the end of the course the student will be able to step by step design different types of heat exchangers and evaporators that is related to thermal desalinations process. Topics covered include: Heat transfer in Boiling and condensation, design of Heat exchangers and evaporators, and simulation of thermal system and optimization.

Pre-requisite: 0408277

0408382

Chemical Reaction and Membrane Tech. Lab

This lab course introduces experiments on chemical reactions and membrane fabrication and testing. Experiments will be selected from several categories, namely chemical reactions, membrane fabrication, and membrane testing and characterization. Emphasis is on providing students with experimental skills, tools, and acumen to carry out any relevant experiments. Lab report and teamwork will also be assessed.

Pre-requisite: 0408379, 0408385

0408381

Unit Operations Lab

This course provides students with hands-on experience in chemical engineering unit operations. Students will learn the fundamental principles of separation, mixing, reaction, and heat transfer, and how they apply to real-world chemical engineering processes. Emphasis is on providing students with experimental skills, tools, and acumen to carry out any relevant experiments. Lab report and teamwork will also be assessed.

Pre-requisite: 0408277

1420202

Organic Chemistry for Engineers Lab

This lab course is designed to provide students with hands-on laboratory experience to supplement their understanding of organic chemistry techniques and their applications in engineering. The course will cover laboratory safety protocols and the importance of safety in the laboratory environment. Students will learn about common organic reactions and techniques, including distillation, extraction, and chromatography, and will apply this knowledge to synthesize and characterize organic compounds. Emphasis is on providing students with experimental skills, tools, and acumen to carry out any relevant experiments. Lab report and teamwork will also be assessed.

Pre-requisite: 1420201

0408387

Desalination Lab

This course provides students with hands-on experience in chemical engineering unit operations. Students will learn the fundamental principles of separation, mixing, reaction, and heat transfer, and how they apply to real-world chemical engineering processes. Emphasis is on providing students with experimental skills, tools, and acumen to carry out any relevant experiments. Lab report and teamwork will also be assessed.

Pre-requisite: 0408280, 0408380, 0408372

0408496

Process Control and Simulation

Feedback control in chemical engineering: flow rate, level, temperature and pH control. PID control: study of the effect of control actions. Adjustment of parameters. Control instrumentation: valves, controllers, transducers, sensors.

Pre-requisite: 0408386, 1440261

0408471

Plant Design and Cost Analysis

This course will provide necessary background to do design of chemical and/or desalination process plants. Topics covered include the concept of design for processing units, piping, instrumentation, hazard and safety, waste treatment and other relevant units. Costing and economic feasibility will also be analyzed. Computing tools such as ASPEN will be introduced for process simulation.

Pre-requisite: 0401301, 0408380, 0408372, 0408370

0408498

Practical Training I

This is the first of two required Practical Training courses. The course consists of seminars and workshops, some of which conducted by speakers from the industry, and field trips that cover five major topics. These are: multistep work processes; professional organizations, development, licensure, and ethics; national and local regulations and laws; entrepreneurships, business models, leadership; new technologies in the field.

Pre-requisite: Senior Standing/90 hours completed

0408499

Practical Training II

This is the second of two required Practical Training courses. The course consists of a supervised professional practice of engineering in a workplace for a minimum of 20 hours per week over a period of 16 weeks. The practice should cover different tasks and multistep work processes in the career of engineers in the field. It should prepare the trainee for future employment by engaging him/her in solving practical engineering problems, making informed decisions, upholding standards of ethics in the industry, using latest technologies, and working in a team.

Pre-requisite: 0408498

0408478

Senior Design Project I

Students work on a major design project, applying and integrating the knowledge gained in previous course work to develop solutions to an open-ended problem. Students apply the basic elements of the modern engineering design methodology to learn how to plan a project, work on teams, and incorporate standards and constraints to produce the preliminary design. Another alternative, student teams could investigate a research topic in some area of Water Desalination Engineering from the current literature under the supervision of the faculty advisor. Instructor deliver a series of lectures/seminars devoted to discussing design-related issues, such as systematic methods of idea or concepts generation of multiple design alternatives (TRIZ and brainstorming), and methods to select the optimal design subject to various constraints (House of Quality). In addition to seminars devoted to project-related issues and student presentations. A project proposal, oral presentations, and a comprehensive final report with proper literature review and outline of the methodology are required.

Pre-requisite: Senior Standing

0408479

Senior Design Project II

Students work on a major design project, applying the methodology and concepts proposed in senior design project I (0408478). Students apply and integrate the knowledge gained in previous course work to develop solutions to an open-ended problem. Students apply the modern engineering design methodology to choose from alternative design subject to realistic constraints, and incorporate standards and constraints. Student teams work together to build upon the proposed senior design project I (409491) methodology to design, build, refine and test complete hardware or/and software systems to meet specifications. Another alternative, student teams work together to design and run experiments, analyze data, and conclude on research findings based on their senior design project I (409491). A project final product (prototype, software code, research/experiments findings, etc.), oral presentations, poster presentation, and a comprehensive final report are required.

Pre-requisite: 0408478

0408376

Sea Water Desalination using Non-Conventional Methods

The course describes the science and technology of non-conventional desalination processes. It addresses technical and economical parameters of the new technologies. It covers the recent developments, areas to enhance efficiencies, reduce water production cost and CO2 emission. Non-conventional desalination technologies including recent electrochemical (electrodialysis, electrodialysis reversal, electrodeionization, and capacitive deionization), thermal (solar still, humidification dehumidification desalination, membrane distillation, pervaporation, and freezing/crystallization desalination), membrane (forward osmosis, membrane distillation and pervaporation), renewable energy-powered desalination (from solar thermal, solar electricity, geothermal, wind, nuclear, and ocean/wave forms of energy), hybrid, tri-hybrid and integrated technologies are covered.

Pre-requisite: Senior Standing

0408476

Water and Energy Nexus

This course introduces to the students the relationship between the water and energy or more commonly known as the Water-Energy Nexus. Both energy, and water represent basic resources for all living systems. While energy is required for water management, transportation, extraction, treatment, purification, and desalination. As the demand for both energy and water is increasing due to the population growth and with the increasing environmental pressures due to global warming, the understanding of the water-energy nexus is crucial for water and energy security.

Pre-requisite: Senior Standing

0408480

Renewable Energy Desalination

Applications of sustainable methods such as renewable energy technologies for desalination systems. The course will cover desalination technologies powered with renewable energy systems including solar PV, solar thermal, wind, geothermal, fuel cells and hybrid renewable power systems. Desalination powered with renewable energy systems will help to develop sustainable methods and strategies for freshwater production with lower greenhouse gas emissions and at competitive cost compared to fossil fuel powered desalination plants.

Pre-requisite: Senior Standing

0408481

Hybrid Desalination Processes

Introduction to the concept of a hybrid complex desalination plant, which consists of several desalination units of different technologies operating in parallel or connected in series. Two or more technologies are usually involved in the hybrid desalination processes such as RO-MED; RO-MSF, MED-AD. The combination of two or more desalination processes will help to provide better environmental solutions and lower water cost compared to single desalination technology plant. Hybridization of desalinations systems offers many advantages: increase in the quality and the amount of desalinated water, reduction in the energy consumption and minimize the environmental impacts.

Pre-requisite: Senior Standing

0408482

Modeling and Simulation of Multi-Stage Flash Desalination

Introduction of Multi-Stage Flash (MSF) Desalination, MSF Desalination Plant Control Systems, Dynamic Model for an MSF Plant, General Linear Static Data Reconciliation Problem, Analysis of the Dynamic Model for Control, Model Reduction Methods, Multiloop Optimization, Adaptive Scheme with Optimally Tuned PID Controller, Application of Artificial Neural Networks, MATLAB® Programs for MSF.

Pre-requisite: Senior Standing

0408483

Membrane Distillation

Introduction to Membrane Distillation (MD), Membranes Used in MD and Design, Formation of Flat Sheet Phase Inversion MD Membranes, Formation of Hollow Fibre MD Membranes, MD Membrane Modules, Direct Contact Membrane Distillation, Sweeping Gas Membrane Distillation, Vacuum Membrane Distillation, Air Gap Membrane Distillation, Membrane Distillation Hybrid Systems, Economics, Energy Analysis and Costs Evaluation in MD.

Pre-requisite: Senior Standing

0408488

Special Topic

The course describes the science and technology of interest in water desalination related fields. The course will be proposed by expert instructor in the field of chemical, water treatment and desalination areas. It will cover the latest technologies developed in this field.

Pre-requisite: Senior Standing

0408489

Emerging Membrane Processes

The course aims to provide the students with knowledge on emerging membrane processes that are becoming more important for many applications especially in water treatment and desalination. These processes include membrane distillation, forward osmosis, pressure retarded osmosis, membrane capacitive deionization, electrodialysis and pervaporation. Topics covered will include the theory and mechanism of separation, design of processes and integration with other methods.

Pre-requisite: Senior Standing

0408493

Introduction to Biochemical Engineering

This course aims to introduce the basic principles of and applications of biochemical engineering. Topics to be covered in this course will include types of cells; microbial culture and growth cycle; Biochemical and bioprocess engineering and their applications; biochemicals stoichiometry and kinetics; substrate degradation and product fermentation; Enzymatic reactions; growth kinetics, bioreactor design; and Industrial Fermentation.

Pre-requisite: Senior Standing

0408494

Oil and Gas Technology

This course provides an overview of the oil and gas industry, the primary resources of the oil and gas industry, facilities and processes, upstream, midstream, and downstream activities, along with utilities, petrochemicals and environmental impacts of the oil and gas industry. Topics covered include an introduction to the oil and gas industry and its importance to society, the history of the oil and gas industry, primary resources of the oil and gas industry, upstream, midstream, and downstream sector activities of the oil and gas industry, utility systems in oil and gas, petrochemicals, emissions, and environmental effects, major challenges faced by the oil and gas industry.

Pre-requisite: Senior Standing

0408495

Process Safety

This course aims to introduce the principles of process safety and its applications in identifying hazards, assessing risk of chemical and water desalination engineering systems as well as hazard control approaches. Topics to be covered in this course will include historical process industries accidents and their impacts; Hazard system; Process Hazard Analysis; Hazard Rating, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Hazard and Operability Studies (HAZOP), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA); Event Tree Analysis (ETA); Risk Assessment and Hazard Control.

Pre-requisite: Senior Standing