ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 2 Expository Class: 31 Interactive Classroom: 18 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician, English
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Center Higher Technical Engineering School
Call: First Semester
Teaching: Sin Docencia (En Extinción)
Enrolment: No Matriculable (Sólo Planes en Extinción)
Curricular objectives: Concepts and typical methods of chemical engineering; Concept of chemical process; Mass and heat energy balances.
Learning objectives: Strategy of problem-solving; Worksheet; Strengthen capacities of relationship and communication; Explanation of daily events.
According to the reference report of the Degree in Chemical Engineering, the content of this subject must refer to the following epigraphs: "The chemical industry and the role of the chemical engineer. Systems and unit conversion. Unit operations in the chemical industry. Representative processes and units. Conservation principles and their practical application to process units. Concept of balances: steady and non-steady state, recycling, purge and bypass. Mass balances: systems without chemical reaction. Systems with chemical reaction: stoichiometry, kinetics, chemical reactors. Total energy balances. Heat energy balance: systems without and with generation. Use of a process simulator"
These contents are organized in the following theoretical lessons, interactive seminar lessons and interactive lessons in the Computer Lab.
Lectures
1. The first part of the course allows to introduce different concepts of chemical engineering. A particular problem is proposed (producing a particular product from raw materials) and then the process is developed. Concepts of transport of fluids, heat transfer, mass transfer, kinetics, interface equilibrium and chemical reactors, presenting the typical equipment of each unit is reviewed. Finally, the operational logic is studied by analysing the process flow diagrams.
2. Unit Systems. International System/Imperial System/ Engineering System. Unit conversion. Conversion factors.
3. Mass balances without chemical reaction. Application to problems with recycling, purge and bypass.
4. Mass balances in systems with chemical reaction. Ideal reactors.
5. Energy balance in systems without chemical reaction.
6. Energy balance in systems with chemical reaction. Isothermal and adiabatic operation.
Interactive seminar classes
In the seminars some typical problems based on the content of the subject are solved, delving into the practical aspects of it.
Interactive classes in computer room
The concepts on mass and energy balances exposed and developed in the lectures and interactive classes are worked on through the application of a simulator to analyze different situations in the operation of an industrial chemical process. Specifically, the following sections will be seen: 1.- Introduction to the simulator; 2.- Definition of streams; 3.- Physical Properties; 4.- Cooler / heater; 5.- Mix balance / Splitting of streams; 6.- Flash separator; 7.- Conversion reactor (adiabatic and isothermal). 8.- Recycling of streams.
Basic bibliography
CALLEJA PARDO, G. Introducción a la Ingeniería Química. Madrid. Ed. Síntesis, 1999. ISBN 84-7738-664-1.
FELDER, R.M. and ROSSEAU, R.W. Principios Elementales de los Procesos Químicos. 3ª Ed. México, Ed. Limusa Wiley, 2010. ISBN 9789681861698.
Complementary bibliography
COSTA NOVELLA, E. et al. Ingeniería Química. Vol. I y II. Madrid. Ed. Alhambra, 1988. ISBN 84-205-0990-6 / 84-205-1021-1.
COSTA LÓPEZ, J. et al. Curso de Ingeniería Química: Introducción a los Procesos, las Operaciones Unitarias y los Fenómenos de Transporte. Barcelona. Ed. Reverté, 2002. ISBN 84-291-7126-6.
IZQUIERDO, J.F. et al. Introducción a la Ingeniería Química. Problemas resueltos de balances de materia y energía. 2ª ed. Barcelona. Ed. Reverté, 2015. ISBN 978-84-291-7116-7.
SOLEN, K.A. and HARB, J. N. Introduction to Chemical Engineering: tools for today and tomorrow. Wiley, 2010. ISBN 9780470885727.
DENN, M.M. Chemical Engineering: an introduction. Cambridge University Press, 2012. ISBN 9781107669376.
FEIJOO, G., Moreira M.T. and Lema J.M. Mass Balances for Chemical Engineers. De Gruyter, 2020. ISBN 3110624303, 9783110624304. On-line reference.
Specific skills
CQ.1.1. Knowledge about mass and energy balances.
CQ.1.2. Knowledge about biotechnology.
CQ.1.3. Knowledge about mass transfer and separation operations.
CQ.1.4. Knowledge about chemical reaction engineering.
CQ.1.5. Knowledge about reactor design.
CQ.1.6. Knowledge about valorisation and transformation of raw materials and energy resources.
CQ.2.1. Capacity for analysis and design of processes and products.
CQ.2.2. Capacity for simulation and optimization of processes and products.
General skills
CG.3. Knowledge about basic and technological subjects, which allow learning new methods and theories and giving versatility to adapt to new situations.
CG.4. Ability to solve problems with initiative, decision making, creativity, critical reasoning and communicate and convey knowledge, skills and abilities in the field of industrial chemical engineering.
Cross-disciplinary skills
CT.1. Capacity for analysis and synthesis.
CT.6. Resolution of problems.
CT.8. Team work.
CT.10. Skills in interpersonal relationships.
CT.13. Ability to apply knowledge in practice.
CT.14. Adaptation to new situations.
This is a subject that begins to become extinct in this 2024-2025 academic year, so it is a subject without teaching.
The evaluation will be carried out by taking an exam whose grade will correspond to 100% of the subject.
The exam will have 2 clearly differentiated parts:
Part 1. Theory exam that will consist of short questions (in some cases it could be a numerical resolution exercise) related to the different contents of the subject. Your grade will be 30% of the overall grade.
Part 2. Problem exam that will consist of several problems related to the contents of the subject. Your grade will be 70% of the overall grade.
Enrique Roca Bordello
- Department
- Chemistry Engineering
- Area
- Chemical Engineering
- Phone
- 881816774
- enrique.roca [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
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