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10.04J A Philosophical History of Energy ( ) (Same subject as 24.114J ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Philosophic and historical approach to conceptions of energy through the 19th century. Relation of long standing scientific and philosophic problems in the field of energy to 21st century debates. Topics include the development of thermodynamics and kinetic theories, the foundation of the scientific project, the classical view of energy, and the harnessing of nature. Authors include Bacon, van Boltzmann, Carnot, Compte, Descartes, Gibbs, Plato, Aristotle, Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Mill, Peirce, Whitehead, and Maxwell. Key texts and controversies form topics of weekly writing assignments and term papers. B. L. Trout, L. D. Perlman
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10.10 Introduction to Chemical Engineering ( , ) Prereq: Chemistry (GIR) , Physics I (GIR) , Calculus I (GIR) Units: 4-0-8 Lecture: MWF1 ( 4-270 ) Recitation: T10 ( 54-100 ) +final The diverse applications of chemical engineering are explored through example problems. Solutions require application of fundamental concepts of mass and energy conservation to batch and continuous systems, involving chemical and biological processes. Computer skills and the elements of engineering design are taught in the context of these example problems. The objective is to acquaint the student with the field of chemical engineering and to enable use of computer methods to solve chemical and biological engineering problems. Geo. Stephanopoulos, K. J. Prather, B. S. Johnston, G. C. Rutledge
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10.213 Chemical and Biological Engineering Thermodynamics ( ) Prereq: 5.60 , 10.10 Units: 4-0-8 Thermodynamics of multicomponent, multiphase chemical and biological systems. Applications of first, second, and third laws of thermodynamics to open and closed systems. Properties of mixtures, including colligative properties, chemical reaction equilibrium, and phase equilibrium; non-ideal solutions; power cycles; refrigeration; separation systems. K. K. Gleason, N. Maheshri, J. C. Love
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10.22 Molecular Engineering ( ) Prereq: 5.60 , 10.213 Units: 3-0-9 Introduces molecular concepts in relation to engineering thermodynamics. Includes topics in statistical mechanics, molecular description of gases and liquids, property estimation, description of equilibrium and dynamic properties of fluids from molecular principles, and kinetics of activated processes. Also covers some basic aspects of molecular simulation and applications in systems of engineering interest. G. C. Rutledge, P. S. Doyle
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10.25 Industrial Chemistry and Chemical Process Pathways ( ) Prereq: Chemistry (GIR) , 10.213 , 10.37 Units: 3-0-6 URL: http://web.mit.edu/10.25/www/ Lecture: MWF12 ( 66-160 ) Chemical and engineering principles involved in creation and operation of viable industrial processes. Topics: analysis of process chemistry by p-pathways (i.e., radical, ionic, and pericyclic reactions of organic syntheses) and d-pathways (i.e., catalysis by transition-metal complexes). Use of reaction mechanisms for inference of co-product formation, kinetics, and equilibria: process synthesis logic related to reaction selectivity, recycle, separations. Illustrations drawn from current and contemplated commercial practice. P. S. Virk
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10.26 Chemical Engineering Projects Laboratory ( ) (Subject meets with 10.29 ) Prereq: 5.310 , 7.02 , or 10.702 ; 10.302 Units: 3-8-4 URL: http://web.mit.edu/10.26/www/ Projects in applied chemical engineering research. Students work in teams on one project for the term. Projects often suggested by local industry. Includes training in research planning and project management, execution of experimental work, data analysis, oral presentation skills and individual report writing, and team-building. C. K. Colton, P. S. Virk, W. H. Dalzell, B. S. Johnston, K. A. Smith, J. F. Hamel
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10.28 Chemical-Biological Engineering Laboratory ( ) Prereq: 5.310 , 7.02 , or 10.702 ; 7.05 or 5.07 ; or permission of instructor Units: 2-8-5 Credit cannot also be received for 10.28L URL: http://web.mit.edu/10.28/www Lecture: M3-5 ( 4-237 ) Lab: TR1-5 ( 66-0042 ) or WF1-5 ( 66-0042 ) Introduces the complete design of the bioprocess: from vector selection to production, separation, and characterization of recombinant products. Utilize concepts from many fields, such as, chemical and electrical engineering, and biology. Student teams work through parallel modules spanning microbial fermentation and animal cell culture. With the bioreactor at the core of the experiments, students study cell metabolism and biological pathways, kinetics of cell growth and product formation, oxygen mass transport, scale-up and techniques for the design of process control loops. Introduces novel bioreactors and powerful analytical instrumentation. Downstream processing and recombinant product purification also included. Enrollment limited. J.-F. Hamel and K. J. Prather
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10.28L Chemical-Biological Engineering Laboratory ( , ) Prereq: 5.310 , 7.02 , or 10.702 ; 7.05 or 5.07 ; or permission of instructor Units: 2-8-5 Credit cannot also be received for 10.28 Same as 10.28, but with the lab portion of the class held during IAP. Content, depth, and difficulty are otherwise identical to that of 10.28. The class is designated as 10.28 on students' transcripts. Enrollment limited. J.-F. Hamel and Staff
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10.29 Biological Engineering Projects Laboratory ( ) (Subject meets with 10.26 ) Prereq: 5.310 , 7.02 , or 10.702 ; 10.302 Units: 3-8-4 Projects in applied biological engineering research. Students work in teams on one project for the term. Projects often suggested by local industry. Includes training in research planning and project management, execution of experimental work, data analysis, oral presentation skills and report writing, and team-building. C. K. Colton, J. F. Hamel, C. L. Cooney, R. S. Langer, N. Maheshri
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10.291J Introduction to Sustainable Energy (New) ( ) (Same subject as 2.650J , 22.081J ) (Subject meets with 1.818J , 2.65J , 10.391J , 11.371J , 22.811J , ESD.166J ) Prereq: Permission of instructor Units: 3-1-8 Lecture: TR3-5 ( 4-370 ) Recitation: TBA Assessment of current and potential future energy systems. Covers resources, extraction, conversion, and end-use technologies, with emphasis on meeting 21st-century regional and global energy needs in a sustainable manner. Examines various renewable and conventional energy production technologies, energy end-use practices and alternatives, and consumption practices in different countries. Investigates their attributes within a quantitative analytical framework for evaluation of energy technology system proposals. Emphasizes analysis of energy propositions within an engineering, economic and social context. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. Limited to juniors and seniors. M. W. Golay, J. P. Freidberg
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10.301 Fluid Mechanics ( ) Prereq: 18.03 , 10.10 Units: 4-0-8 URL: http://web.mit.edu/10.301/www/welcome.html Introduces the mechanical principles governing fluid flow. Stress in a fluid. Conservation of mass and momentum, using differential and integral balances. Elementary constitutive equations. Hydrostatics. Exact solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations. Approximate solutions using control volume analysis. Mechanical energy balances and Bernoulli's equation. Dimensional analysis and dynamic similarity. Introduces boundary-layer theory and turbulence. W. M. Deen, A. K. Chakraborty
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10.302 Transport Processes ( ) Prereq: 5.60 , 10.301 , 10.213 ; or permission of instructor Units: 4-0-8 Lecture: MWF12 ( 66-110 ) Recitation: T11 ( 66-110 ) or T12 ( 66-110 ) +final Principles of heat and mass transfer. Steady and transient conduction and diffusion. Radiative heat transfer. Convective transport of heat and mass in both laminar and turbulent flows. Emphasis on the development of a physical understanding of the underlying phenomena and upon the ability to solve real heat and mass transfer problems of engineering significance. W. H. Dalzell, T. A. Hatton
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10.32 Separation Processes ( ) Prereq: 10.213 , 10.302 Units: 2-0-4 General principles of separation by equilibrium and rate processes. Staged cascades. Applications to distillation, absorption, adsorption, and membrane processes. Use of material balances, phase equilibria, and diffusion to understand and design separation processes. W. H. Dalzell
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10.333 Introduction to Modeling and Simulation ( ) Engineering School-Wide Elective Subject. (Offered under: 1.021 , 3.021 , 10.333 , 22.00 ) Prereq: 18.03 , 3.016 , or permission of instructor Units: 4-0-8 Basic concepts of computer modeling and simulation in science and engineering. Uses techniques and software for simulation, data analysis and visualization. Continuum, mesoscale, atomistic and quantum methods used to study fundamental and applied problems in physics, chemistry, materials science, mechanics, engineering, and biology. Examples drawn from the disciplines above are used to understand or characterize complex structures and materials, and complement experimental observations. M. Buehler, N. Marzari, R. Radovitzky, T. Thonhauser
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10.34 Numerical Methods Applied to Chemical Engineering ( ) Prereq: Permission of instructor Units: 3-0-6 URL: http://web.mit.edu/10.34/www/ Lecture: MWF9 ( 66-110 ) +final Numerical methods for solving problems arising in heat and mass transfer, fluid mechanics, chemical reaction engineering, and molecular simulation. Topics: numerical linear algebra, solution of nonlinear algebraic equations and ordinary differential equations, solution of partial differential equations (e.g. Navier-Stokes), numerical methods in molecular simulation (dynamics, geometry optimization). All methods are presented within the context of chemical engineering problems. Familiarity with structured programming is assumed. W. H. Green
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10.37 Chemical Kinetics and Reactor Design ( ) Prereq: 5.60 , 10.301 Units: 3-0-6 URL: http://web.mit.edu/10.37/www/ Applies the concepts of reaction rate, stoichiometry and equilibrium to the analysis of chemical and biological reacting systems. Derivation of rate expressions from reaction mechanisms and equilibrium or steady state assumptions. Design of chemical and biochemical reactors via synthesis of chemical kinetics, transport phenomena, and mass and energy balances. Topics: chemical/biochemical pathways; enzymatic, pathway and cell growth kinetics; batch, plug flow and well-stirred reactors for chemical reactions and cultivations of microorganisms and mammalian cells; heterogeneous and enzymatic catalysis; heat and mass transport in reactors, including diffusion to and within catalyst particles and cells or immoblized enzymes. Gr. Stephanopoulos, K. D. Wittrup, W. H. Green
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10.391J Sustainable Energy (New number 22.811) ( ) (Same subject as 1.818J , 2.65J , 11.371J , 22.811J , ESD.166J ) (Subject meets with 2.650J , 10.291J , 22.081J ) Prereq: Permission of instructor Units: 3-1-8 URL: http://web.mit.edu/10.391J/www/ Lecture: TR3-5 ( 4-370 ) Recitation: TBA Assessment of current and potential future energy systems. Covers resources, extraction, conversion, and end-use technologies, with emphasis on meeting 21st-century regional and global energy needs in a sustainable manner. Examines various energy technologies in each fuel cycle stage for fossil (oil, gas, synthetic), nuclear (fission and fusion) and renewable (solar, biomass, wind, hydro, and geothermal) energy types, along with storage, transmission, and conservation issues. Emphasizes analysis of energy propositions within an engineering, economic and social context. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. M. W. Golay, J. P. Freidberg
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10.392J Fundamentals of Advanced Energy Conversion ( ) (Same subject as 2.62J , 3.64J , 22.40J ) (Subject meets with 2.60J , 3.083J ) Prereq: 2.006 , 3.044 , or permission of instructor Units: 4-0-8 Fundamentals of thermodynamics, chemistry, and transport applied to energy systems. Analysis of energy conversion and storage in thermal, mechanical, chemical, and electrochemical processes in power and transportation systems, with emphasis on efficiency, performance and environmental impact. Applications to fuel reforming and alternative fuels, hydrogen, fuel cells and batteries, combustion, catalysis, combined and hybrid power cycles using fossil, nuclear and renewable resources. CO 2 separation and capture. Biomass energy. A. F. Ghoniem, M. Kazimi, Y. Chiang
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10.393 Multiscale Analysis of Advanced Energy Processes ( ) Prereq: Permission of instructor Units arranged Motivation, approach and overall methodology, and specific options for achieving a more sustainable energy supply with lower environmental impacts. Case studies designed to explore multiscale aspects of new energy technology development. Four, 2-week subject modules explore diverse aspects of new energy technology development. Modules include nuclear power for electricity and hydrogen production, conventional and synthetic fossil fuels and carbon sequestration, conversion of biomass into transportation fuels and energy, and geothermal energy recovery and conversion to electricity. M. Golay, E. Drake
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10.40 Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics ( ) Prereq: 5.60 , 10.213 Units: 4-0-8 Lecture: MW10-12 ( 66-110 ) +final Basic postulates of classical thermodynamics. Application to transient open and closed systems. Criteria of stability and equilibria. Constitutive property models of pure materials and mixtures emphasizing molecular-level effects using the formalism of statistical mechanics. Phase and chemical equilibria of multicomponent systems. Applications emphasized through extensive problem work relating to practical cases. D. Blankschtein, A. K. Chakraborty
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10.420 Molecular Aspects of Chemical Engineering ( ) (Subject meets with 10.520 ) Prereq: 5.13 , 10.213 Units: 3-0-6 Meets with subject 10.520, but assignments differ. Molecular-level engineering and analysis of chemical processes. Use of chemical bonding, reactivity, and other key concepts in the design and tailoring of organic systems. Application and development of structure-property relationships. Descriptions of the chemical forces and structural factors that govern supramolecular and interfacial phenomena for molecular and polymeric systems. P. T. Hammond
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10.43 Introduction to Interfacial Phenomena ( ) Prereq: 10.213 or introductory subject in thermodynamics or physical chemistry Units: 3-0-6 Introduces fundamental and applied aspects of interfacial phenomena. Theory of capillarity. Experimental determination of interfacial tension. Thermodynamics of interfaces. The Gibbs adsorption equation. Surface tension of pure liquids and solutions. Surface films. Wetting and contact angles. Effect of curvature on the equilibrium state of pure systems and mixtures. Fundamentals of adsorption, micellization, solubilization, and emulsification. D. Blankschtein
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10.44J Statistical Thermodynamics of Complex Liquids ( ) (Same subject as 8.575J , 22.52J ) Prereq: 8.08 , 10.213 Units: 3-0-6 Theory of self-assembly in surfactant-water (micellar) and surfactant-water-oil (micro-emulsion) systems. Introduction to the theory of polymer solutions. Introduction to scattering techniques, light, x-ray, and neutron scattering applied to studies of the structure and dynamics of complex liquids. Modern theory of the liquid state relevant to structured (supramolecular) liquids. D. Blankschtein, S. H. Chen
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10.441J Molecular and Engineering Aspects of Biotechnology ( ) (Same subject as 7.37J , 20.361J ) Prereq: 20.110J , 2.005 , 3.012 , or 5.60 ; 7.06 ; or permission of instructor Units: 4-0-8 URL: http://web.mit.edu/7.37j/ Biological and bioengineering principles underlying the development and use of recombinant proteins as therapeutic drugs; fundamentals of therapeutic protein action, including cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions and intracellular signaling pathways; classes of protein therapeutics; post-translational processing and secretion of proteins; gene cloning and expression in mammalian cells; physiology of cell growth and in vitro cultivation; site-specific mutation of proteins; protein pharmacology and delivery. H. Lodish, L. G. Griffith
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10.442 Biochemical Engineering ( ) (Subject meets with 10.542 ) Prereq: Permission of instructor Units: 3-0-6 Interaction of chemical engineering, biochemistry, and microbiology. Mathematical representations of microbial systems. Kinetics of growth, death, and metabolism. Continuous fermentation, agitation, mass transfer, and scale-up in fermentation systems, enzyme technology. K. J. Prather
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