Laboratory of Electrochemical Systems Engineering
108A. Process Economics and Analysis
Integration of chemical engineering fundamentals such as transport phenomena, thermodynamics, separation operations, and reaction engineering and simple economic principles for purpose of designing chemical processes and evaluating alternatives.
108B. Chemical Process Computer-Aided Design and Analysis.
Introduction to application of some mathematical and computing methods to chemical engineering design problems; use of simulation programs as automated method of performing steady state material and energy balance calculations.
Important Note: Additional bonus points are given every year in the 108A and 108B courses by completing the level one (basic) and level two (intemediate) of the Safety and Chemical Engineering Education (SAChE) Certificate Program. Check the link below and let me know if you have any questions. Impress recruiters by already having your SAChE certificates!!
Invited lectures
Frontier Lectures from University of California at Osaka University (Summer 2020)
This lecture series is an introductory course to this field. The audience are mostly first and second year students and the discussion of topics are kept rather general.
This course studies the fundamental and applied aspects of electrocatalysis related to renewable energy conversion and storage. The first part of the course looks at the current energy landscape, the increase in anthropogenic carbon emissions and the increased production of electricity from renewable sources of energy. This part also covers basic concepts of catalysis for hydrogen evolution, oxygen evolution, CO2 and N 2 reduction reactions and how these are related to energy storage mechanism in biological and artificial systems. Both homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts are discussed, with an emphasis on both the why and how catalyst are used in these reactions.
The second and last part of this course looks at emerging technologies for the direct production of fuels and chemical from sunlight, the techno economics of replacing petrochemicals by renewable equivalents and the challenges in scaling up these new processes.