ENADE Engenharia Química study plan
ENADE Engenharia Química · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 6 hours per week
Formação Geral: ethics, citizenship, and professional responsibility & Formação Geral: science, technology, society, and the environment
Map the professional duties of a chemical engineer under Brazilian engineering regulation and the CREA/Confea system, listing at least eight concrete obligations in your own words.
Analyze three short ethics case scenarios (conflict of interest, whistleblowing on a unsafe plant, falsified emission data) and write a defensible decision for each with the reasoning stated.
Explain how technology choices in chemical processing interact with society and the environment, using two examples of unintended consequences and two of preventive design.
Draft a one-page personal code of conduct for your future practice, citing at least three principles you would refuse to violate.
Your checkpoint
A 900-word ethics and STS portfolio containing the obligation list, three case decisions, and the personal code of conduct.
Formação Geral: reading, interpretation, and argumentative writing & Formação Geral: ethics, citizenship, and professional responsibility
Summarize three technical or policy texts of 600-900 words each in under 150 words apiece, preserving the central claim and the evidence used.
Identify the thesis, the supporting arguments, and at least one logical fallacy in two opinion pieces on energy or industrial policy.
Write a 400-word argumentative paragraph defending a position on a technology-related public issue, with a clear claim, two premises, and a counterargument addressed.
Revise one of your own texts to remove ambiguity, passive hedging, and unsupported generalization.
Your checkpoint
A reading-and-writing pack: three summaries, two fallacy analyses, and one revised 400-word argument.
Mass and energy balances and applied thermodynamics & Fluid mechanics and transport phenomena (momentum, heat, mass transfer)
Set up and solve ten steady-state mass balances on multi-unit processes with recycle and purge, documenting every assumption.
Solve six combined mass-and-energy balance problems involving sensible heat, latent heat, and reaction enthalpy, checking units at each step.
Apply the first and second laws to compute enthalpy and entropy changes for ideal-gas and real-fluid paths, including at least two cases needing an equation of state.
Construct a property table for a binary mixture from given data and use it to obtain phase compositions at a specified temperature and pressure.
Your checkpoint
A worked problem set of at least 16 solved balances and thermodynamic problems with a one-page error log of mistakes made.
Fluid mechanics and transport phenomena (momentum, heat, mass transfer) & Mass and energy balances and applied thermodynamics
Derive and apply the shell momentum balance to obtain velocity profiles for flow between parallel plates and in a circular tube.
Compute pressure drop, friction factor, and pump power for three pipe networks, including minor losses and non-Newtonian cases.
Solve four convective heat-transfer problems using correlations for internal and external flow, and justify the correlation chosen.
Explain the analogy among momentum, heat, and mass transfer and use it to estimate one transfer coefficient from another.
Your checkpoint
A transport-phenomena problem portfolio with at least 12 solved problems and a summary sheet of the correlations used and their validity ranges.
Chemical reaction engineering and kinetics & Unit operations and separation processes
Derive rate laws from batch and plug-flow reactor data using differential and integral methods, and compare the fitted orders.
Size isothermal and non-isothermal reactors (batch, CSTR, PFR) for a given conversion, including a recycle reactor case.
Select and justify a separation sequence for a three-component mixture, comparing distillation, extraction, and absorption options.
Compute the number of equilibrium stages for a binary distillation and a gas absorption column, and state the key limiting assumptions.
Your checkpoint
Two design memos: one reactor sizing memo with plots of conversion versus volume, and one separation-sequence memo with stage counts.
Unit operations and separation processes & Process control, instrumentation, and simulation
Design a drying or membrane separation step for a specified duty, estimating area and utility consumption.
Build a transfer-function model of a first-order-plus-dead-time process and tune a PID controller by two methods, comparing the responses.
Interpret instrumentation diagrams: identify loop elements, signal types, and failure modes for two process loops described in text.
Run a steady-state simulation of a simple flowsheet and reconcile the result with a hand calculation within five percent.
Your checkpoint
A control-and-separation report containing the tuned controller comparison table, the loop analysis, and the simulation-versus-hand-calculation reconciliation.
Materials, corrosion, and equipment design & Process and product design, safety, and environmental engineering
Select materials for three specified service conditions (acid, high temperature, abrasive slurry) and justify each choice against corrosion and mechanical criteria.
Diagnose four corrosion failure modes from described symptoms and propose a mitigation for each.
Complete a preliminary hazard analysis for a described process unit, listing at least ten deviations and their consequences.
Propose a waste-reduction or effluent-treatment change for a given plant and estimate its effect on the mass balance.
Your checkpoint
A safety-and-materials dossier with the material selection table, four corrosion diagnoses, the hazard analysis worksheet, and the environmental improvement estimate.
Industrial chemistry, biochemical and alternative-energy processes & Process and product design, safety, and environmental engineering & Chemical reaction engineering and kinetics
Compare two process routes to the same product on raw-material efficiency, energy intensity, and waste generation, and recommend one.
Explain the operating principles of two biochemical or alternative-energy processes and identify their main scale-up bottlenecks.
Integrate knowledge across domains by solving three full-case problems under timed conditions, then review every error.
Consolidate a one-page formula and concept sheet per domain for final review.
Your checkpoint
A timed mock-exam score report plus eleven one-page review sheets, one per domain.
Milestones
Week 2: You can summarize an unseen 800-word technical text in 150 words and name its thesis and one weakness without rereading.
Week 4: You solve a combined mass-and-energy balance with recycle and a pipe-flow pressure-drop problem correctly and unaided within 25 minutes each.
Week 5: You size a reactor and estimate distillation stages from raw data in one sitting, stating assumptions before calculating.
Week 6: Your simulated flowsheet matches your hand calculation within five percent, and you can explain any gap.
Week 8: On the timed mock exam you score at least 60 percent overall with no domain below 45 percent.