CM4120 Chemical Plant Operations Lab Introduction to Chemical ManufacturingThe Process Simulation and Control Center at MTUSlide 3Batch PDMS Reaction ProcessThe Solvent Recovery ProcessSlide 6CM4120Chemical Plant Operations LabIntroduction to Chemical ManufacturingCM4120 Course Description: A capstone laboratory course focused on chemical manufacturing processes from the perspective of manufacturing excellence.Lecture material includes quality management, applications of statistical process control, and current trends in quality manufacturing. Experimental reinforcement of these concepts occurs in the department's Process Simulation and Control Center pilot plants.The Process Simulation and Control Center at MTUMission:To provide a capstone laboratory experience for CM undergraduates that exposes our students to the Technologies, Practices, and Procedures common to contemporary chemical processing industries.To provide a chemical manufacturing environment that allows research in the areas of process simulation and control.The Process Simulation and Control Center at MTUPSCC Vision:To expose our undergraduate students to the primary unit operations and computer technologies common to the multi-faceted CPI and to the manufacturing environment that defines and constrains the CPI.This vision began in the late 1980’s and continues to evolve today.Batch PDMS Reaction ProcessStudy production of a specialty chemical:reaction kineticsunsteady-state heat transferoptimization of batch processprocess capabilityLong term goal is 6-sigma precision manufacturing capability.The Solvent Recovery ProcessStudy production of a commodity chemical:distillation of a binary mixturelevel 1 and level 2 process controloptimization of a continuous processprocess capabilityLong term goal is 6-sigma precision manufacturing capability.CM4120Chemical Plant Operations LabIntroduction to Chemical ManufacturingEducational goals are to challenge each of you to understand and learn the applications of:instrumentation and computer process controlunit operations embedded w/in a chemical processprocess managementquality
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