Calendar: 1944-1945 Page 121

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING 125 COURSES OF STUDY The courses are unavoidably discontinued during the war The Course covers one Session and is designed so that it may be taken in the year following the Final Sc Examination by students who have devoted their undergraduate course primarily either to Chemistry or to Engineering and who have already obtained good training in the fundamental sciences of Chemistry Physics and Mathematics Its exact nature is therefore varied in accordance with the previous training of the student The object is to train the student in the scientific principles underlying the methods of carrying out chemical processes on the technical scale by teaching him to apply the principles of Physics Physical Chemistry and Engineering to the general methods and apparatus employed in industry For this purpose the Course is designed on the basis of close co-operation between the Departments of Chemistry and Engineering and members of the Staffs of these Departments deal with those aspects of the work which are more particularly of purely chemical or engineering nature Thus Chemistry students receive under conditions similar to those met with in practice the necessary training in such subjects as Engineering Drawing Commercial Testing of Materials of Construction Production and Transmission of Mechanical and Electrical Energy and the deter- mination of the Efficiencies of Boiler Installations and of the more general types of Mechanical and Electrical Plant whilst Engineering students devote an equivalent amount of time to further instruction in suitable branches of Chemistry The part of the Course common to both classes of students deals with Chemical Engineering Operations and Processes Fundamental operations common to number of chemical industries are studied and investigated from the point of view of Plant Construction Energy Requirements and Efficiency of Operation Examples are given in the design of typical Units of Plant and instruction is provided in the preparation of Quantitative Flow- Sheets both for materials and energy in the Calculation of Costs and in the general principles underlying the Location and Layout of Works In addition to the practical work carried out in the Laboratories students are required to take course in Workshop Practice Ample facilities are provided for the investigation of industrial problems covering wide field Students are recommended to avail themselves of these facilities and where possible to spend further period in carrying out research work for the degree of Sc or Ph in Chemical Engineering of the University of London In order that close touch shall be maintained with industry arrange- ments are made whereby lectures are delivered during the course by representatives of Chemical Manufacturers Plant Manufacturers Industrial Research Departments and similar organisations Visits to selected Works form an important feature of the course during term time and arrangements are made for students to spend part of the vacation periods in Works in order to gain actual industrial experience