Archived-Announcements-2012
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- No tutorial next Monday, 12 November: please use the 2 hours to work on your SDL projects.
- Grades for assignment 1, 2, 3 and 4 are posted on Avenue. Please sign in to check. Assignment 5 and 6 grades will be posted soon.
- (Partial) midterm solutions are now available. The remaining solutions were covered in class.
- The guest lecture on Thursday, 01 November: "Introduction to Innovation and Entrepreneurship" is now available on video.
- An import memo regarding the SDL projects and next steps. Meetings with Alicia (group A's) and myself (group B's) may be scheduled from 13:00 to 19:00, Tuesday to Friday. Book them early to ensure you get a slot that works for your group.
- Information about the midterm on Monday has been available for some time. Please make sure you bring the necessary materials with you to the exam. There are some practice problems also available.
- Salary figures for Chemical Engineers between age 26 and 35
- Some hints for the assignment 5:
- Updated: The due date is Tuesday 23 October, at class.
- Costing should be done for 2011.
- Cost of steam: a publication from the DOE.
- Another good article on pricing steam
- From the above 2 articles you will gather that steam generation is a complex "mini-plant" in its own right, usually generating it using natural gas as an energy source. So if you find an outdated steam price, ratio it against the price of natural gas to get current pricing.
- ACO pricing is hard to come by, but ACO has similar physical properties to palmitic acid, or hexadecanoic acid. In the absence of better information, you may use this for pricing instead.
- Update on the midterm : the midterm has been rescheduled to 29 October 2012, starting at 19:00 (please be at the venue from 18:45 onwards). It will be written in T29, room 101. As requested in the course evaluation, some practice questions have been posted.
- Assignment 5 for Monday is posted.
- Based on the course evaluation feedback, there is now a discussion board available on the Avenue2Learn website. Please participate!
- As promised, an example of self-directed learning report for 4N4 produced by a group in the 2011 class. There will be a memo with an update on the next steps for the SDL project in the next few days where you will have to write an outline of your project's scope.
- Question for class on Thursday:
Estimate the capital cost for a distillation column fabricated from 316 stainless steel, 26 trays at regular spacing of 0.6m, operating at 3.2MPa. The column height is 21.3m and diameter of 2.3m.
- Solutions for both assignment 2 and 3 are available; see below. Paper copies will be returned in class on Thursday.
- A reading on the Chemical Engineering Plant Cost Index (CEPCI)
- The informal course evaluation results.
- An update regarding electronic submissions: a single Word document or PDF or Google Doc (preferred) will be accepted. Please read for more details.
- Inflation adjustment factors for the process industries
- 2 slides on the bare module method
- A list of costs that should be considered
- You will also require portions of Don Woods' book Cost Estimation for the Process Industries. This can only be downloaded from McMaster computers [30 Mb]. Please keep a copy for tutorials and use in class exercises. You do not need to print the entire book, only the parts from chapter 1. The other chapters are for reference.
- We'd like to be clear: a spreadsheet by itself is NOT a valid assignment submission and will essentially receive a grade of zero: it's as if handing in a report to your manager with only appendices but no content. Furthermore, we are seeing groups that do not follow the requirements posted a week ago: non-native Google Docs do not show up correctly and cannot be commented on by the TAs or myself.
- Assignment 4 is posted for Monday's tutorial.
- A short note regarding cover letters has been posted.
- For assignment 3, question 5: please use an MARR of 15%. The assignments are due at the start of your tutorial time slot; if handing in electronically, please make sure we get them by 17:00.
- A memo has been posted, dated 24 September 2012. We will discuss this in class on 25 September.