Felleslb Guidelines, Fall 2003

FELLESLB GUIDELINES, FALL 2003

Organization of the Course

Course website:

In order to log in this web side, you must log in inneside fist, and then click at It’s learning, and then you have authority to visit this page if you have registered this course.

Course coordinator:

Prof. De Chen, KV-407, 73593149,

Course administrative coordinator:

Øye Asbjørn, K4-118, 73594018,,

Table 1. List of lab projects, and supervisors

No / Lab exercise / Person in charge / Supervisor
1 / Kinetic study in a bactch reactor(1) / Edd Blekkan / Vidar Frøseth
2 / Kinetic study in a CSTR / De Chen / Florian Huber
3 / Kinetic study by UV-VIS spectroscopy / Egil Haanæs / Thomas Løften
4 / Kinetic study in a batch reactor(2) / Edd Blekkan / Ingrid Aarthun
5 / Rashing ring distillation column / Sigurd Skogestad / Vidar Alstad
6 / Oldershow perforated plate distillation column / Sigurd Skogestad / Jens Strandberg
7 / Distillation in hole plate column / Tore Haug-Warberg / Federico Zenith
8 / Reverse osmosis / Ultra filtration / Norvald Nesse / Willy Thelin
9 / Efflux time for a tank / Terje Hertzberg / Olaf Trygve Berglihn
10 / Heat exchanger / Hallvard Svendsen / Erik Falk da Silva
11 / Pressure drop in tube / Hugo Jakobsen / Håvard Linborg
12 / Crystallization / Jens-Petter Andreassen / Tom Drakstad
13 / Separation of impurities in pulp / Størker Moe / Øyvind Eriksen
14 / Membrane filtration / May-Britt Hägg / Arne Lindbraathen

Laboratories:

No. / Lab exercises / Room
1 / Kinetic study in a batch reactor (1) / KV. 3etg
2 / Kinetic study in a CSTR / KV 3etg.
3 / Kinetic study by UV-VIS spectroscopy / KV 3etg.
4 / Kinetic study in a batch reactor (2) / KV3etg.
5 / Rashing ring distillation column / KIV 301
6 / Oldershow perforated plate distillation column / KIV 301
7 / Distillation in hole plate column / KIV 301
8 / Reverse Osmosis/ultrafiltration / KV 1etg.
9 / Efflux time for a tank / KIV 301
10 / Heat exchanger / KIV 301
11 / Pressure drop in tube / KIV 301
12 / Crystallization / KIV 215
13 / Separation of impurities in pulp / PIF
14 / Membrane filtration / KV 2etg.

Introduction

The goal of the Felleslab Is to introduce you to some of the practical skills you need to be able to apply the scientific and engineering concepts you have acquired in your coursework, including TKP4110 Chemical Reaction Engineering, TKP4105 Separation technology, TKP4160 Transport phenomena, and TKP2120 Process Engineering. By the time you finish the course you should be able to achieve the following course outcomes:

1. Organize and carry out experimental design and actual hands-on experiments.
2. Apply previous course material to analyze and interpret experimental data.
3. Write organized and cohesive technical memos and reports.
4. Organize and prepare standard operating procedures (SOPs).
5. Work effectively in a team environment.

Projects

The projects which will be used in Fall 2003 are listed in Table 1.

All students will have the opportunity to work on three of these projects during the term, if you participate TKP4110 and TKP4115. If students take only one course either TKP4110 or TKP4115, you will woke on one of these projects during the term. However, you are encouraged to learn more about the other projects by reading the course pack and consulting students working on those projects. You need to engage in “active learning” — that is, you need to take charge of your own learning through observation, questioning, and evaluating answers — in order to get the most out of the Felleslab experience.

Performance Evaluation

Since this is a laboratory course, planing, experimental performance and reporting are required. Points for the various activities will be assigned approximately as listed in the evaluation table. Since this is primarily a laboratory course, less tangible quantities, — such as the quality of laboratory work, cooperation with others in and outside of the lab (based on peer evaluation), apparent interest in the course content and objectives, safety considerations etc., — will be judged by the laboratory instructors and will affect your final grade accordingly.

The lab instructor will evaluate your laboratory reports for technical content and accuracy, as well as overall quality and grammatical mistakes. Each report will be assigned a grade and, in general, each member of the team will receive the same grade.

Grade Distribution

Course

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Theoretic exam. %

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Lab,%

TKP4110

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75

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25

TKP4115

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75

/

25

The grade of the felleslab will be accounted by: 50% large Version +2*25% short version

Organization of the Laboratory Sessions

1. Whenever possible, you will be working in teams of two or three.
2. You have opportunity to select the package. If you participate both TKP4110 and 4105, you can select one of the package 1-9. If you participate only TKP4105, please select one of the package 10 and 11. If you participate only TKP4110, please select one of the package 12 and 13. You can register your group on course web page (click icon registration). Before you select the package, we recommend you to read through all the documents for different projects.
3. As you begin each project, you will prepare an experimental design (work plan). This work plan should include clear objectives for your project based on the assignment memo you receive, reference materials in the course pack, and additional literature review. Your work plan must be well thought out, with specific process parameters to be measured and a specific description of your approach to performing the necessary data collection and analysis (include key equations). It is essential that students know the fundamentals and what needs to be done before going into the laboratory rather than figuring what to do in the lab or afterwards.

-Your work plan is critical — it will determine the success of your experimentation; more information about the work plan are provided in the work plan guidelines.

1. After you have signed group, you should make an appointment for a meeting with the instructors. The work plan should be well discussed. It is essential that students should get permission before starting experimental session.

Conducting the Projects

1. Before starting any experimental work, you must have read through the safety guidelines provided. You must wear safety eye glasses, goggles or reading glasses with tempered lenses and side shields. You will not be allowed to work in the lab without appropriate eye protection.
2. You must study the instructions for each project carefully before the first laboratory session on that project. Each person in the team must be individually familiar with the theory, procedures, and data analysis and interpretation, as described in the instructions or as covered in relevant previous courses. The laboratory instructor reserves the right to stop work on the project if the students do not show due diligence in understanding the assignment.
3. Set up your laboratory notebook before you come to the lab. Organize space for a statement of the processes and relationships that you will test. Make preliminary tables showing conditions and variables for your experiments. The specific layout will depend on the project, but in any case leave room for your comments and additions as you proceed with your work.
4. Give thought to ways of improving the accuracy or precision of the results, or the ease of doing the work. You should consider sources of error, anomalous results, experimental difficulties, etc, during the experiments and record them in your lab notebook.
5. You must submit a concise description of your experimental design (work plan) before the laboratory session. The work plan report will be evaluated by the instructor and discussed with the team during the second laboratory session. This plan should include your understanding of the goal(s) of the project, a statement of your objectives, an itemization of what you plan to do in the remaining lab sessions, and what kind of data analysis you will do.
6. When possible, data should be processed and interpreted during the course of the experimental work, thus helping to identify and correct experimental or data analysis problems.
7. You must process and interpret all data obtained in the laboratory sessions as soon as possible. In the third lab session, you will repeat or extend your experiments depending on the results and conclusions you drew from previous sessions. You may want to disregard previous data if you feel there is a legitimate reason for doing so. Your reasoning should be explained accordingly.

The Laboratory Notebook

Each team in the Felleslab will use one Laboratory Notebook. You will need to make copies of the original pages for inclusion in the appendices of your written reports. The instructors reserve the right to check the original pages. Specific details with regards to preparation of the laboratory notebook are provided in the “Notebook Guidelines”.

Laboratory Reports

Each team who has both version 1 and version 2 projects should prepare both short and full final reports, respectively. Teams having version 2 project prepare only the full final report. These processes will provide the students opportunities to practice skills to prepare different types of the reports. The full final report, which is not to exceed 15 single-spaced pages including figures and tables (exclusive of appendices) will address all aspects of the project, including Objectives, Background and theory, Experimental methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusions. Specific details with regards to preparation of the full report are provided in the “Full Report Guidelines”. It is appreciated that all the appendices are less than 10 pages.

The short report, which is like progress report, is very often used in industry to briefly report the results for a specific objective. The report should therefore address the objectives, and the progress forward objectives. Detailed discussion is not the main objective of such report. The text is 2-3 single spaced pages including figures and tables and appendices are exclusive, which should be also less than 5 pages. The details can be found in the “The Short Report Guidelines”.

The students in each team will also cooperate on preparing reports and share the report. Each team will submit two copies of the report. One of them will be delivered back to the students with comments from the instructors. The reports are due on the data indicated in the schedule. The comments to the short report should be obtained before the preparation of the full report.

Safety Responsibilities.

Laboratory SAFETY is of the highest priority. Each student has the responsibility to:

-Carefully read through HMS book. Sign the first page and submit it to the institute office.

-be aware the safety guidelines of felleslab.

-be aware of the location of exits and fire extinguishers.

- be aware of the activity of those working around you; this is particularly important if potentially hazardous materials or equipment are being transported in the laboratory.

- be familiar with the specific safety requirements of your apparatus, especially with regards to any necessary protective clothing (safety glasses, hardhats, gloves, etc.).

- not operate equipment outside of the procedures and limitations established by the instructor responsible for that equipment. Ask for assistance if you are not sure how changing a particular control or parameter (i.e., opening or closing valves, knobs, etc.) will impact the experiment.

- practice good housekeeping. Shut down the apparatus safely and leave the laboratory area clean and free of debris.

Questions for Consideration

Each of the instructions for the projects contains a section called Questions for Consideration. These are intended to direct attention to questions whose answers may be of great importance in the performance of an experimental project and the analysis and interpretation of the data gathered.

These questions should be resolved as early in each project as possible, certainly by the second laboratory session. Their "answers" should be integrated as appropriate into the final reports. The questions are not to be simply answered in writing in the report. It should be apparent, however, in discussions with the instructor, and in the final report, that the questions for consideration have been considered and resolved.

Suggested Additional Reading Materials

1.Introduction to Engineering Experimentation. A.J. Wheeler, A.R. Ganji, Pentice Hall Inc., New Jersey, 1996.

2.Designing Technical Reports. 2nd edition. J. C. Mathes and D.W. Stevenson.
Allyn and Bacon, Boston, 1991.

3.Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Scientists and Engineers.
W.A. Rosenkrantz. McGraw-Hill, 1997.

Updated July 2003

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