Dear ChE Grad Students, Dr. Siirola will be offering two 597 classes in the spring. Please see descriptions below. Best, Katie Catherine Field, Ph.D. Graduate Program Administrator/Counselor School of Chemical Engineering Forney Hall of Chemical Engineering, Room 1051 480 Stadium Mall Drive West Lafayette, IN 47907-2050 Telephone: 765-494-4057 Fax: 765-494-0805 www.engineering.purdue.edu/ChE/ ChE 597 Process Synthesis (CRN 11621) Spring 2014 MWF 9:30-10:20 FRNY G124 This course will discuss the role that design plays in the chemical process industry and in particular the techniques for flowsheet alternatives generation that have found industrial applicability. Topics will include alternative paradigms for process synthesis, practical methods for heat exchanger network synthesis, systematic identification of designs which exploit distillation, azeotropic distillation, extractive distillation, extraction, reactive distillation, and related separation technologies, techniques for coordinating the specification of separation conditions in a way to minimize energy requirements and equipment costs, separation synthesis for mixtures with very nonideal solution thermodynamics, reaction network or supply chain network synthesis, the interaction of process synthesis with control system synthesis, and related topics. ChE 597 Chemical Process Technology and Industry Structure (ICRN 66409) Spring 2014 TR 1:30-2:50 FRNY G124 This course will survey key sectors of the chemical processing industries and discuss the structure of the industry and the historical development and evolution of the technologies which have shaped them and the common flowsheet elements which have proven to be commercially successful. Examples will be drawn from a range of industry sectors, production scales, chemistries, and enabling technologies. The industry will be examined in light of factors which have most influenced its development including raw materials of choice, energy availability, and the development of new unit operations, as well as those which will influence its future course including advances in science and technology, environmental impact minimization, water availability, new sources of energy, and sustainability, carbon management, and climate change concerns.