CHEM 2401

Exclusion(s): Unavailable to students with credit for CHEM245. The course covers practical applications of chemistry to industry. Review of typical chemical industries and modern production plants in Canada and around the world. Review of activities of and visits to chemical industries in Atlantic Canada. Chemical terms and nomenclatures, basic process calculations, and flowcharts. Basic principles of processing equipment, distillation units, reactors, heat exchangers, scrubbers, and driers. Introductory material and energy balances. Inorganic chemical processes for phosphoric acid, super phosphate, ammonia, synthesis gas, sulphuric acid. Organic chemical processes from petroleum, natural gas, crude oil, bitumen, lubricants properties and processing. Petrochemical processes, polymer and resins precursors, and synthetic rubber. Course includes lab component.