Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply project management tools (work breakdown structures, activity lists, network diagrams, Gantt diagrams) to distribute project workload amongst team members and facilitate the timely completion of course deliverables.
2. Develop a Process Hazard Analysis (hazard identification, hazard evaluation, consequences analysis and risk analysis) from a P&ID of a unit operation and formulate recommendations for mitigating identified risks.
3. Assess a process design from the standpoint of sustainability, environmental stewardship and applicable regulations / standards.
4. Conduct a design review of a process flow diagram to identify performance limitations, health and safety issues, operational inefficiencies and unnecessary costs.
5. Identify gaps in knowledge needed to revise unit operations and develop an experimental program to acquire the necessary data.
6. Use MATLAB (or similar) to simulate the dynamics of unit operation, and HYSYS (or similar) to simulate steady state conditions of a continuous process element, while recognizing the limitations of process modelling approaches and software.
7. Develop capital and operating cost estimates for proposed process revisions and formulate recommendations for improving process safety and economics.
8. Generate concise technical reports using appropriate terminology and documentation, with particular emphasis on the correct application of PFD and P&ID conventions.