ECTS credits ECTS credits: 4.5
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 74.25 Hours of tutorials: 2.25 Expository Class: 18 Interactive Classroom: 18 Total: 112.5
Use languages Spanish, Galician, English
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Chemistry Engineering
Areas: Chemical Engineering
Center Higher Technical Engineering School
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
Understanding the basic principles of chemical reaction engineering and their application to reactor design.
Training students for the formulation of kinetic equations in homogeneous systems.
Acquisition of skills for the calculation and design of ideal isothermal reactors.
Students' awareness of the importance of safety and accident prevention in chemical reactors.
Chapter 1. Introduction to Chemical Reaction Engineering
1.1 Chemical reaction engineering
1.2 Types of reactions
1.3 Types of reactors
1.3.1 Discontinuous, semi-continuous and continuous operation.
1.4 Reaction rate
Chapter 2. Kinetics of homogeneous reactions
2.1 Rate equation
2.2 Concentration-dependent term
2.3 Temperature-dependent term
2.4 Mechanisms
Chapter 3. Obtaining kinetic data
3.1 Constant volume batch reactor
3.1.1 Differential method
3.1.2 Integral method
3.2 Variable volume batch reactor
3.2.1 Differential method
3.2.2 Integral method
3.3 Temperature and reaction kinetics
Chapter 4. Ideal reactors
4.1 Key concepts
4.1.1 Space time and residence time
4.2 Ideal batch reactor
4.3 Complete mixing reactor
4.4 Plug Flow Reactor
Chapter 5. Design of ideal isothermal reactors: simple reactions
5.1 Single reactor
5.1.1 Size comparison
5.2 Multiple reactor systems
5.3 Recirculating reactor
5.4 Autocatalytic reactions
Chapter 6. Design of ideal isothermal reactors: multiple reactions
6.1 Reactions in parallel
6.1.1 Qualitative study
6.1.2 Quantitative study
6.2 Series reactions
6.2.1 Qualitative study
6.2.2 Quantitative study
6.3 Series-parallel reactions
Topic 7. Safety in chemical reactors
7.1 Risks associated to chemical reactions
7.2 Safety in the chemical reactor
Basic:
Levenspiel, O. Ingeniería de las Reacciones Químicas, 3ª ed. México : Limusa Wiley, 2004. ISBN 968-18-5860-3 (A120 4 G, A120 4 H, A120 4 J, QUT 130, QUT 131, QUT 242); Levenspiel, O. Chemical Reaction Engineering. 3rd ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1999. ISBN 0-471-25424-X (120 11, A120 4 E, A120 4 F, QUT 218).
Fogler, H.S. Elementos de Ingeniería de las Reacciones Químicas. 4ª ed. México: Pearson Educación, 2008. ISBN 9789702611981(A120 3 G A120 3 H A120 3 I); Fogler, H.S. Elements of Chemical Reactor Engineering. 4th ed. Harlow: Prentice Hall, 2014. ISBN 978-1-292-02616-9 1-292-02616-2 (A120 3 K, A120 3 L)
Complementary:
González Velasco, J.R. et al. Cinética Química Aplicada. Madrid: Síntesis, 1999. ISBN84-7738-666-8 (BT 115, A QF 100, 121 10, 121 10 A, A121 8, QUT 260, QUT 261, QUT 262, QUT 263, QUT 264)
Missen, R.W., Mims, C.A. and Saville, B.A. Introduction to chemical reaction engineering and kinetics. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1999. ISBN 0-471-16339-2 (A120 1, A120 1 A, A120 1 B, A120 1 C, QUT 235)
Ravi, R., Vinu, R. and Gummadi S.N. (eds.) Coulson and Richardson's chemical engineering. Volume 3A, Chemical and biochemical reactors and reaction engineering. Fourth Edition. Oxford: Butterworth Heinemann, 2017. ISBN 978-0-08-101096-9
http://sfx.bugalicia.org/san?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&url_ctx_fmt=infofi/fmt…
Santamaría, Jesús M. et al. Ingeniería de Reactores. Madrid: Síntesis, 2002. ISBN 9788477386650 (A122 2 C, A122 2 D, A122 2 E, A122 2 F) ISBN Digital: 9788499581101
https://prelo.usc.es/Record/Xebook1-480
Specific skills:
CQ.1.4. Knowledge on chemical reaction engineering.
CQ.1.5. Knowledge on chemical reactor design.
General skills:
CG.3. Knowledge on basic and technological subjects helping the students to learn new methods and theories, and providing them with versatility to adapt themselves to new situations.
CG.4. Capacity in problem solving with initiative, decision making, creativity, critical thinking, knowledge transfer and communication, and skills and competencies in the field of industrial chemical engineering.
Transferable skills:
CT.1. Capacity for analysis and synthesis
CT.6. Problem solving
CT.8. Team work
CT.19. Self-learning
The magistral classes will be dedicated to the presentation of the theoretical contents of the subject, always with the active participation of the student and with the support of audiovisual tools. The seminars will be devoted to solving problems. At the end of the different blocks of the subject, evaluable seminars will be held where students will solve theoretical questions or problems. This will be considered for the final evaluation. In the group tutorial an open problem will be solved.
Virtual Campus will be used as a teaching support tool.
The student will also be able to make the queries they want in individualized tutorials at the time established for that purpose.
By competences:
- Expository classes: CG3, CQ1.1, CQ1.4, CQ1.5
- Seminars: CG4, CT6, CT19, CQ1.1, CQ1.4, CQ1.5
- Group tutoring: CT1, CT8, CQ1.6
Evaluation of activities and competences
Seminars: CG4, CT6, CQ1.4, CQ1.5
Exam: CG3, CG4, CT1, CT6, CQ1.4, CQ1.5
Assesment system
Exam at the end of the semester: 75% of the grade (80% Problems, 20% Theory)
Assessable seminars: 20% of the grade.
Group tutoring: 5%
Minimum grade in the exam: 4 (out of 10). If this is not achieved, the final grade will be corresponding to the exam.
The qualifications of the seminars will be communicated to the students before the exam.
In case of not passing the subject in the first opportunity, the note obtained in the continuous evaluation activities carried out will be saved for the second opportunity. Nothing will be kept between calls.
In cases of fraudulent completion of exercises or exams, the Regulation for the assesment of the academic performance of students and the review of scores will apply.
Expositive lectures: classroom, 28 h; student own work, 34 h; ECTS, 2.5
Interactive lectures (seminars): classroom, 9 h; student own work, 11 h; ECTS, 0.8
Group tutorials: classroom, 1 h; student own work, 4 h; ECTS, 0.2
Individual tutorials: classroom, 1 h; student own work, 2 h; ECTS, 0.1
Exam and revision: classroom, 5 h; student own work, 17.5 h; ECTS, 0.9
TOTAL: classroom, 44 h, student own work, 68.5 h; ECTS, 4.5
The students are recommended to have previously taken the following courses: Differential Equations, Fundamentals of Chemical Processes, and Analysis of Chemical Processes.
Frequently use individual tutorials
The subject is taught in Spanish.
Ana Maria Soto Campos
Coordinador/a- Department
- Chemistry Engineering
- Area
- Chemical Engineering
- Phone
- 881816760
- ana.soto [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
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| 12:00-13:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | Spanish | Classroom A3 |
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| 09:00-10:00 | Grupo /CLIS_02 | Spanish | Classroom A3 |
| 01.13.2025 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom A3 |
| 01.13.2025 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | Classroom A3 |
| 01.13.2025 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_02 | Classroom A3 |
| 01.13.2025 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom A4 |
| 01.13.2025 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | Classroom A4 |
| 01.13.2025 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_02 | Classroom A4 |
| 06.19.2025 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | Classroom A3 |
| 06.19.2025 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_02 | Classroom A3 |
| 06.19.2025 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom A3 |