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Department Chemical Engineering Major Chemical Laboratories
Course Name Writing Skills Course Code KCHE 424
Prerequisites Credit Hours
CRH 2 CTH 3
L 2 P 0 T 1
CRH: Credit Hours L: Lecture P: Practical T: Tutorial CTH: Contact Hours
Course description:
Writing Skills is a course developed to provide the student with methodologies to write scientific texts in different academic contexts: research papers, reports, conference talks, grant proposals, etc.
Topics :
Overview of Technical Research and Report Writing
Information Structure/Techniques in Writing Skills
Types of Technical Report
Writing Documentation and Abstract
Preparing of Visuals and Presentation
Experiments: If applicable, it will support the course topics.
References:
1) Pocket Book of Writing Skills for Engineers and Scientists”, McGraw-Hill, 2007.
Detailed of Theoretical Contents
No. Contents Hours
1
Overview of Technical Research and Report Writing:
Definition and Nature of Writing Skills.
Properties of Writing Skills.
Basic Principles of Writing Skills.
Styles in Writing Skills.
The Role of Writing Skills.
5
2
Information Structure/Techniques in Writing Skills:
Formal Definition.
Mechanism Description.
Process Description.
Classification.
Cause and Effect.
Comparison and Contrast.
6
3
Types of Technical Report:
Report Layout and Format.
Proposal.
Progress Report.
Feasibility and Recommendation Study.
Laboratory and Project Report.
Instructions and Manuals.
Research Report.
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4 Writing Documentation and Abstract. 6
5 Preparing of Visuals and Presentation. 6
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Textbook: Pocket Book of Writing Skills for Engineers and Scientists”, McGraw-Hill, 2007.
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Department Chemical Engineering Major Chemical Production
Course Name Water Treatment Course Code KCHE 444
Prerequisites Credit Hours
CRH 2 CTH 3
L 2 P 0 T 1
CRH: Credit Hours L: Lecture P: Practical T: Tutorial CTH: Contact Hours
Course description:
This course aims to give the trainee the basic skills for the treatment of wastewaters. In this course, training will be carried through theoretical information by two lectures per week in addition to training on the following subjects: introduction to pollution, water pollution, wastewater treatment and uses of treated waters.
Topics:
Water pollution
Wastewater treatment
Design of wastewater station
Disposal of the products of treatment
Uses of treated water
Experiments: If applicable, it will support the course topics.
References:
1) Wastewater Engineering: Treatment and Reuse by George Tchobanoglous, Franklin L. Burton, and H. David Stensel, 2002
Details of Theoretical Contents
Contents Hours
1
Water pollution:
Sources of water pollution.
Wastewaters. 4
2
Philosophy of wastewater collection and treatment:
Planning and design of sewage.
Philosophy of sewage treatment. 6
3 Primary treatment of wastewater:
Sedimentation. 6
4
Secondary treatment of wastewater:
Fundamentals of applied microbiology.
Description of the activated sludge process.
Design of activated sludge systems.
The design of the aerator to the activated sludge process.
Filtration by distillation and design fundamentals.
Other air treatment systems.
Fundamentals of anaerobic treatment.
Design of anaerobic reactors.
Design of UASB reactors.
6
5
Advanced treatment of wastewater:
Nitrification: Description of the process and design.
DE nitrification: Description of the process and design.
Removal of phosphorus and other advanced treatment.
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Residuals Management:
Management basics of remaining.
Design of residual management operation. 5
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Design of wastewater treatment plant:
Disposal of treatment products.
Uses of treated wastewater. 6
39 Textbook: Wastewater Engineering: Treatment and Reuse by George
Tchobanoglous, Franklin L. Burton, and H. David Stensel, 2002
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Department Chemical Engineering Major Chemical Production
Course Name Renewable Energy Course Code KCHE461
Prerequisites Credit Hours
CRH 2 CTH 3
L 2 P 0 T 1
CRH: Credit Hours L: Lecture P: Practical T: Tutorial CTH: Contact Hours
Course description :
This course mainly is a necessary course for Environmental Studies students who are interested in energy as a possible career, and a useful elective course for engineers interested in renewable energy.
This course provides an introduction to energy systems and renewable energy resources, with a scientific examination of the energy field and an emphasis on alternate energy sources and their technology and applications.
Topics:
Introduction
Solar Energy
Wind Energy
Other Renewable Systems
Experiments: If applicable, it will support the course topics.
References:
1) Godfrey Boyle, “ Renewable Energy, Power for a sustainable future”, 2004, Oxford University Press, in association with The Open University.
Detailed of Theoretical Contents
No. Contents Hours
1
Introduction:
Energy: Past, Today, and Future. A brief history of energy consumption.
Energy & Environment.
Non-renewable energies.
6
2
Solar Energy:
Sun and its Energy: Basics of Solar Energy.
Solar Energy in the Past.
Solar Energy Resources.
Solar Thermal Energy.
Solar Photovoltaic.
10
3
Wind Energy:
Historical Background.
Wind Resources.
Wind Turbines.
Environmental Impact.
11
4
Other Renewable systems:
Biomass.
Wave and Tidal.
Hydroelectricity.
Geothermal.
Others.
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University Press, in association with The Open University,2004.
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Department Chemical Engineering Major Chemical Laboratories Course Name Pharmaceuticals Chemistry Course Code KCHM 414
Prerequisites Credit Hours
CRH
2 CTH 3
L 2 P 0 T 1
CRH: Credit Hours L: Lecture P: Practical T: Tutorial CTH: Contact Hours
Course Description:
The objectives of this course to provide trainee with role of chemistry in discovery and preparation of pharmaceuticals. The course will contain history of some important pharmaceuticals compounds, their preparations, their properties and biological reactions. Total synthesis of some important pharm.
compounds will be explained in this course.
Topics:
The importance of pharmaceutical chemistry
Stereochemistry and drug action
Inorganic chemistry in pharmacy
The chemistry of biologically important macromolecules
Origins of drug molecules
Introduction to pharmaceutical analysis
The molecular characteristics of good drugs
Physicochemical Properties of Drugs
Volumetric Analysis of Drugs.
Medicinal Chemistry- the Science of Rational Drug Design.
Experiments: If applicable, it will support the course topics.
References:
1) Jill Barber and Chris Roston, Pharmaceuticals Chemistry, Oxford University Press, 2013.
2) Cairns, D., Essentials of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pharma Press, London, UK, 2012.
3) David G. Watson, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Elsevier Ltd., International, 2011.
4) John M. Beale, Jr. and John H. Block, Wolters Kluwer, Organic Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry,12th Edition, 2016
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Detailed of Theoretical Contents
No. Contents Hours
1 The importance of pharmaceutical chemistry:
Drug discovery and development process. 4
2
Chemistry of acids and bases:
Dissociation of weak acids and bases.
Hydrolysis of salts.
Amphiprotic salts.
Buffer solutions.
Buffer capacity.
Biological buffers.
Ionisation of drugs.
pKa values of drug molecules.
pH indicators.
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Partition coefficient and biopharmacy:
Experimental measurement of partition coefficient.
Drug absorption, distribution and bioavailability.
Passive diffusion.
The pH partition hypothesis.
Active transport mechanisms.
The action of local anaesthetics.
Excretion and reabsorption of drugs.
Food and drink.
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Physicochemical properties of drugs:
Carboxylic acids.
Phenols.
Warfarin.
Phenylbutazone.
Indometacin.
Barbiturates.
Phenytoin.
Sulfonamides.
Basic drugs.
Basicity of heterocyclic compounds.
Separation of mixtures.
4
5
Stereochemistry:
Polarimetry.
Biological systems.
Fischer projections.
Stereochemistry case study: thalidomide.
Geometrical isomerism.
5
6
Drug metabolism:
Metabolic pathways.
Cytochromes P450.
Enzyme induction and inhibition.
Drug conjugation reactions (Phase 2).
Stereochemistry.
Metabolic pathways for common drugs.
6
7
Stability of drugs and medicines:
Oxidation.
Stability of free radicals.
Prevention of oxidative deterioration.
Autoxidation of fats and oils.
Ageing.
Hydrolysis.
Examples of drugs susceptible to hydrolysis.
Other mechanisms of degradation.
Prodrugs.
6
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Licensing of drugs and the British Pharmacopoeia:
Structure of the MHRA.
European licensing procedures.
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Applications for Marketing Authorisations.
British Pharmacopoeia Commission.
The British Pharmacopoeia.
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