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CHIM-H531

Design of chemical plants

academic year
2024-2025

Course teacher(s)

Frédéric DEBASTE (Coordinator) and Tom VAN ASSCHE

ECTS credits

5

Language(s) of instruction

english

Course content

Complexity of projects (economic evaluation from feasibility to construction).

Product strategy.

Project management (specificity, aspects, characteristics, typical causes of failure, context, charter, risk management, planning & scheduling, communication, organization, responsibilities, estimates, budget, monitoring, closure).

Balance sheet and income statement.

Cost structure and profitability (IRR, ROI, NPV).

Situational leadership.

Negotiation.

Instrumentation

Objectives (and/or specific learning outcomes)

Overview of the industrial realities of a global project (chemical plant), by placing the engineering of a project in its global context, with its technical (including instrumentation), human, cultural, legal and economic aspects.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Courses and exercices are done in a integrated way.

A group practical project of plant design closes the course.

Contribution to the teaching profile

This teaching unit contributes to the following competences:

  • In-depth knowledge and understanding of integrated structural design methods in the framework of a global design strategy

  • In-depth knowledge and understanding of the advanced methods and theories to schematize and model complex problems or processes

  • Reformulate complex engineering problems in order to solve them (simplifying assumptions, reducing complexity)

  • Work in an industrial environment with attention to safety, quality assurance, communication and reporting

  • Think critically about and evaluate projects, systems and processes, particularly when based on incomplete, contradictory and/or redundant information

  • A critical attitude towards one’s own results and those of others

  • Consciousness of the ethical, social, environmental and economic context of his/her work and strives for sustainable solutions to engineering problems including safety and quality assurance aspects

  • The flexibility and adaptability to work in an international and/or intercultural context

Other information

Contacts

fdebaste@ulb.ac.be

tel: +32-2-650.67.56

fax: +32-2-650.29.10

UB5.159

http://tips.ulb.ac.be

Evaluation

Method(s) of evaluation

  • Other

Other

Oral exam in group in which each group present the results of the designed realized in the last part of the course

Language(s) of evaluation

  • english

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