Engineering discipline

Chemical & Process Engineering

Process design, mass and energy balance, unit operations and safe operating envelopes.

6 topics in this discipline

Mechanical & Fluids Calculate a value

Why the arithmetic temperature difference gives the wrong area, and how the log mean fixes it.

Water & Desalination Calculate a value

Relating feed concentration, rejection percentage and permeate salinity, and reading the recovery calculator correctly.

Water & Desalination Choose between alternatives

Matching filtration and dosing decisions to the fouling and scaling risk of the raw water.

Chemical & Process Understand a concept

Conservation of mass across a process, and the arithmetic checks that catch an error before design does.

Chemical & Process Calculate a value

Vertical, horizontal and rectangular storage, with working freeboard and the resulting usable volume.

Civil & Structural Understand a concept

The conversions and dimension slips that produce plausible-looking but wrong answers, and how to catch them.