Bismillahirahmanirrahim. My name is Muhammad Syahmi Bin Ahmad Fadilah and I am taking the principle of chemical process course, SKKK 1113 in this second semester as a first year student. This course is being taught by one of the best, experienced and talented lecturer in UTM that is, Assoc. Prof. Dr Azeman Mustafa. This course is divided into two section which is section 03 and 04. I have been placed in section 04 with few other classmates. Basically, this subject is about introducing students to the chemical engineering profession and the fundamental operations of chemical process equipment. It provides students with the basic principles of chemical engineering material balances as well as calculation techniques to solve material balance problems for chemical process systems and equipment. Last but not least,it provides students with the basic principles of the First Law of thermodynamics and its applications.
Alhamdulillah, it is already towards the end of second semester and there is a lot of things that i have learned in this course. First of all, I would like to thanks Dr. Azeman for teaching and helping me a lot in this course and the most important for motivate me a lot to score in this course throughout the semester. This is because, in the beginning of this sem, I was told there is a subject would cause me headache and nightmares. Actually it got within me for a little bit till I started to take classes in this course. After while, I started to release all the illusions from my self, after i get an inspirational and motivated words and some advice from Dr, Azeman, alhamdulillah :)
okay, now, to begin with, this course roughly can be divided into three parts. First topic of part one is Introduction to engineering calculations, second is process and process variables, the third is fundamental of material balance(3.1 - 3.2). these three topic telll us about conversion unit, force and weight, mass and volume, flow rate, chemical composition, pressure and temperature. All these are basic in the chemical engineering course. Besides,these three topic we had learnt in semester one of our first year in Introduction to Engineering subject. Thus, in this semester we just proceed to the second part of this course. The second part of this course consist of 4 topic. the first topic is Fundamentals of material balance(3.3 - 36). In this topic, we were taught about process classification, balance, material balance calculation, balance on multiple unit proces, reycle and bypass, chemical reaction stoichemistry, balance on reactive process and combustion. The second topic is Material Balance on Reactive Process while the second topic is Single Phase Systems and the last topic in the second part of this course is Multi Phase System. lastly, the third part of this course consist of one topic, that is Energy Balances.
Finally, everyday I spent study in this subject is getting me more and more interested and helpful for me in academic learning and in my daily life. By using all the things I've ever learnt till from it and practicing it will get me more experience in major life and academic adventure and i can conclude that this course has achieved all its objectives besides , for me, this course is very interesting and enjoyable to learn. I hope i manage to score in the final exam. Thanks you once again Dr.Azeman for your blessing of teaching us. If there is anythings that my classmates and I had doing wrong, i hope you can forgive us. Hope i can learn more from you in the next semester. :)