Module manager: Professor AE Bayly
Email: a.e.bayly@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2025/26
Admission to an undergraduate programme in the School of Chemical and Process Engineering
CAPE1020
This module is not approved as a discovery module
This module will enable the understanding of the physical laws that underpin engineering processes and how these can be used to solve chemical engineering problems.
On completion of this module, students will be able to:
- Analyse and classify thermodynamic processes on the basis of the fundamental law of thermodynamics.
- Describe thermodynamic systems, conservation of energy, work and heat.
- Differentiate reversible from irreversible processes.
- Determine the efficiency of heat engines (including Carnot, Otto and Brayton cycles), heat pumps, refrigerators.
- Use phase diagrams to determine system properties associated with phase equilibria, e.g. vapour pressure at a specified temperature, boiling point at a specified pressure, triple point, sublimation point and critical temperature and pressure.
- Estimate vapour pressures by applying the available equation i.e. Clausius-Clapeyron, Antoine.
- Use the Gibbs phase rule to determine system degrees of freedom.
- Use Henry’s and Raoult’s law to quantify vapour liquid equilibria.
- Describe basic properties of fluids.
- Distinguish the differences between laminar and turbulent flows.
- Calculate drag force, pressure measurements and flow rate measurements with consideration to energy losses in pipe network.
- Apply the principles of fluid mechanics to solving real world problems.
- Describe the principles of diffusion as applied to fluids at rest and in laminar flow.
- Describe the modes of heat transfer: conduction, convection and radiation.
- Evaluate heat transfer through conduction; conduction through a plane wall, thermal resistance in series, steady-state conduction in composite walls, cylinders and spheres.
- Evaluate heat transfer through convection: natural and forced convection, hydrodynamic and thermal boundary layers, laminar and turbulent flow, individual and overall coefficients of heat transfer.
- Evaluate heat transfer through radiation: radiation intensity, blackbody radiation, surface absorption, reflection and transmission.
- Characterise the functional application of heat exchangers.
- Compute heat requirement in applications involving heat exchangers.
- Define diffusion and mass transfer coefficients.
- Describe molecular diffusion in fluids.
- Apply theories of mass transfer to different mass transfer phenomena.
- Perform a lab experiment on transport phenomena and analyse the resulting data.
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1. Understand the fundamental concepts of thermodynamics and their applications to thermodynamic cycles and phase behaviours.
2. Understand thermodynamic and transport properties of fluids and solids.
3. Understand the principles of fluid dynamics, mass and heat transfer and application to problems involving fluids.
4. Be familiar with the application of a range of modelling approaches, including first-principles models and simple empirical correlations.
5. Understand the principles on which heat exchangers operate to determine performance.
6. Have a knowledge and understanding of basic mathematical models relevant to chemical engineering.
7. Have a basic understanding of relevant principles from engineering disciplines commonly associated with chemical engineering.
8. Be able to critically interpret, analyse and report on experimental thermodynamic and transport phenomena data.
Skills Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills:
a. Technical skills
b. Problem solving & analytical skills
c. Critical thinking
Thermodynamics: Thermodynamic systems and properties, First law of thermodynamics; Thermodynamic processes; Standard heat of reaction and formation; PVT behaviour of pure substances, ideal & real gas; Second laws of thermodynamics; Ideal thermodynamic cycles, refrigerator, heat pump; Gibbs free energy; Phase diagrams; Clapeyron and Clausius-Clapeyron equations; Henry’s and Raoult’s laws; Chemical potential; Partial molar quantities.
Transport Phenomena: Concepts of driving force.
Fluids: Fluid properties; compressible and incompressible flow; Newtonian & non-Newtonian fluids; Fluid statics: Pascal’s law, hydrostatic equation, Manometry; Dimensional analysis, Buckingham’s Pi theorem; Fluid flow: Continuity equation, Bernoulli's equation; Laminar and Turbulent flow; Losses in pipeline elements: friction factor, enlargements and contractions; Darcy’s and Hagen-Poiseuille equations.
Heat transfer: Modes of heat transfer; Conduction equations: walls and radial systems; Steady v/s transient heat conduction; Convection: natural and forced convection; related dimensionless numbers; Radiation: thermal radiation, Blackbody radiation, Radiation intensity, Radiation properties; Heat exchangers: Basic principles of heat exchanger design, LMTD and co-current and counter current arrangement.
Mass Transfer: Principles of diffusion, Diffusion in fluids at rest and in laminar flow, Mass transfer across a phase boundary, mass transfer coefficients.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lectures | 20 | 2 | 40 |
| Tutorials | 10 | 1.5 | 15 |
| Practicals | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| Private study hours | 137 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 63 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 200 | ||
Opportunities for formative feedback include in-class discussions during lectures, direct feedback during examples classes and feedback on draft coursework.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| In-course Assessment | . | 20 |
| Coursework | . | 20 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 40 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
| Exam type | Exam duration | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Standard exam (closed essays, MCQs etc) | 2.0 Hrs Mins | 60 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Exams) | 60 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
The reading list is available from the Library website
Last updated: 30/04/2025
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