A Practical Approach to Chemical Engineering for Non-Chemical Engineers

Moe Toghraei, M.Sc., P.Eng. is Process Engineer who has more than 25 years' experience in chemical engineering, and more than 20 years' experience in teaching. He has in-depth knowledge in project management skills including, man-hour estimation, budgeting, scheduling, and planning. Currently he is an independent Project/Process Engineer. Up to 2011 he was Lead Engineer with CH2M and Jacobs, Calgary, Alberta, Lead Process Specialist with Worley Parsons; Calgary, Alberta. He authored the book “Piping and instrumentation diagram development” published with Wiley-AIChE in 2019. He developed and instructed in-class training courses on “Water treatment in the oil industry”, “De-Oiling: Oil Removal From Water”, “P&ID: Reading & Interpretation”, “Practical Process Control: A P&ID Approach”, “Pressure Safety Valves”, and online training courses on “Process Engineering for Control Practitioners", “Process Engineering for Control Practitioners", “Chemical Engineering for non-chemical engineers”.

Part 1: Chemical Engineering and Process Industries
1. Process Industry Elements: Equipment and Pipes
2. Process Industry Elements: Utilities
3. Process Industry Elements: Instrumentation and Control

Part 2: Chemical Engineers' toolbox
4. Discipline Deliverables
5. Standards and Codes
6. Concepts of materials
7. Principles of Material Change
8. Concepts of Equipment and Pipes

Part 3: Unit Operations and process units
9. Common Principles of Conversions
10. Unit Operations: Mechanical Separations
11. Unit Operations: Mass transfer-based separations
12. Process Units: Reactions
13. Unit Operations: Dealing with discrete form of materials
14. Process Plant Design

Part 4: Chemical engineering activities as a social action
15. Risk Management
16. Economical aspects
17. Health Requirements
18. Safety Requirements of Plants
19. Environment Concerns
20. Material of Construction and Corrosion

Appendices: Brief explanation of chemical engineering courses
1. Fluid Mechanic
2. Heat Transfer
3. Mass Transfer
4. Thermodynamics