CHE 205 Chemistry of Plant Processes
CHE 205 Chemistry of Plant Processes
Purpose: to help other instructors teaching the same course
Common Course ID: CHE 205 Chemistry of Plant Processes
CSU Instructor Open Textbook Adoption Portrait
Abstract: This open textbook is being utilized in a Chemistry course for undergraduate or graduate students by Steven Runyon at California State University Maritime Academy. The open textbook provides information to support the course at no cost to students. The main motivation to adopt an open textbook was that this is a very specialized chemistry course for which no single textbook exists and available handbooks covering this specialty are extremely expensive. Most student access the open textbook in pdf format provided via the learning management system.
CHE 205 Chemistry of Plant Processes
Brief Description of course highlights: This course examines the role that water plays in both production and power plant processes. Emphases within the course focus on the nature of liquid mixtures, including equilibrium concepts as they relate to solution chemistry, sources and types of organic and inorganic water contamination, the quantification of water contamination and the pre-treatment and post-treatment of water utilized in plant processes.
Student population: This course serves students majoring in Facilities Engineering Technology who have previously completed one semester of General Chemistry (CHE 110).
Learning or student outcomes: List student learning outcomes for the course.
1. Understand the basic concepts of water chemistry and its relevance to plant processes.
2. Describe, explain, and model chemical and physical properties of water and aqueous solutions at the molecular level in order to explain macroscopic properties.
3. Understand basic analytical techniques used to assess water quality.
4. Understand basic techniques of water treatment to remove undesirable constituents.
5. Understand the basic processes pre-treatment and post-treatment of water utilized in plant processes.
Syllabus from the course: Syllabus is available upon request
Instructor Name: Steven Runyon
I am a Chemistry professor at the California State University Maritime Academy. 
Please provide a link to your university page. https://www.csum.edu/sciences-and-mathematics/faculty/steven-runyon.html
Please describe the courses you teach I teach General Chemistry 1&2 (CHE 110 & 210), Chemistry of Industrial Plant Processes (CHE 205), and Introductory Organic and Biological Chemistry (CHE 340).
Describe your teaching philosophy and any research interests related to your discipline or teaching. In my courses, I use active learning techniques to promote intellectual engagement and meaningful learning.
OER/Low Cost Adoption Process
Provide an explanation or what motivated you to use this textbook or OER/Low Cost option. The main motivation to adopt an open textbook was that this is a very specialized chemistry course for which no single textbook exists and available handbooks covering this specialty are extremely expensive.
How did you find and select the open textbook for this course? Browsed OER sites, and found through various internet searching and searching our library
Sharing Best Practices: Do it!
Describe any key challenges you experienced, how they were resolved and lessons learned. There are challenges inherent in using multiple textbooks for a single class. This is a very specialized chemistry course for which no single textbook exists and available handbooks covering this specialty are extremely expensive.
Textbook or OER/Low cost Title:
Chemistry: 2nd Edition; Flowers et al; OpenStax College, ISBN-13 978-1-947172-62-3; (https://openstax.org/details/books/chemistry-2e); chapters are posted at no cost via Canvas.
MWH's Water Treatment Principles and Design (3rd Edition); Trussell, R. Rhodes, and Hand, David W. Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, 2012. ProQuest Ebook Central. Selected chapters will be made available online accessible via Canvas. The textbook is also accessible via the library as an electronic text.
The NALCO Water Handbook, 2nd Ed.; Frank N. Kemmer, McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1988. Selected chapters will be made available online accessible via Canvas.
Brief Description: The first text is the same chemistry textbook used for General Chemistry (CHE 110) that students are familiar with which provides fundamental chemical principles covered in the course. The second two are industry handbooks with specialized information pertinent to the applied chemistry covered in this course.
Please provide a link to the resource https://openstax.org/details/books/chemistry-2e
Student access: Textbook chapters are accessed via the LMS (Canvas).
Supplemental resources: Homework sets, answer keys, study guides and lecture files are provided by instructor via Canvas.
Provide the cost savings from that of a traditional textbook. $200 (introductory chemistry) + $160 + $105 = $465
License: Creative Commons Attribution License v4.0