Overview
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Offerings
MURDOCH-S1-FACE2FACE-2025-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S1-ONLINEFLEX-2025-ONGOING
Requisites
Exclusion
Enrolment rules
Enrolment in G1034 Graduate Diploma in Extractive Metallurgy, G1070 Graduate Diploma in Engineering, M1259 Master of Water Treatment and Desalination or M1193 Master of Engineering.
Other learning activities
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Learning activities
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Learning outcomes
1.
Identify the unit operations involved in Mineral Processing, Metallurgical, Water Treatment and Desalination Plants
2.
Apply physico-chemical, chemical engineering and modelling aspects related to unit operations.
3.
Solve problems related to fluid mechanics, mass/heat transfer, mass/energy balance, thermodynamic and kinetic aspects of the reactions involved in unit operations
4.
Perform tasks needed to develop and design flow sheets and/or plants suitable for different feed material based on experimental data; case studies and troubleshooting exercises.
Assessments
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Additional information
Unit content:Weeks 1: Process Variables Units/Dimensions
Week 2: Mass and Energy balance
Week 3-4: Fluid mechanics
Weeks 5-6: Mass Transfer & Reactors
Weeks 7-8: Suspensions & Slurry Transport
Week 9-12: Heat balance/transfer, Ion-exchange & Membrane Technology, Case studies
Other notes:Students will be provided with laboratory data or plant data relevant to unit operations and the expectation is to present a brief report on the critical analysis of data for a specified outcome.