Nivaar worked solution (AI-drafted; not reviewed by a licensed engineer)
Closed-book exam, 3 hours; one aid sheet permitted. Six questions of equal value (20 marks each); five constitute a complete paper — full solutions to all six are given here. Questions 1 and 2 are quantitative (plant material balance and discounted-cash-flow return); Questions 3–6 are design-practice list/essay questions.
Reference texts: M.S. Peters, K.D. Timmerhaus & R.E. West, Plant Design and Economics for Chemical Engineers (5th ed., McGraw-Hill) — the exam's named primary text (process design development Ch. 2, general design considerations: plant location, safety, materials Ch. 3, interest and profitability Ch. 7–10, materials-transfer/pumps Ch. 14); R.H. Perry & D.W. Green, Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook (9th ed.) — pump types and selection (Sec. 10), pyrolysis kinetics data; O. Levenspiel, Chemical Reaction Engineering (3rd ed.) — first-order plug-flow space-time behind the reactor sizing in Question 1; supporting Canadian practice from CCOHS and the CSA Z767 / provincial OH&S process-safety-management framework for Question 5.
