ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Hours of tutorials: 1 Expository Class: 17 Interactive Classroom: 34 Total: 52
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Chemistry Engineering
Areas: Chemical Engineering
Center Higher Technical Engineering School
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
To interpret a Process Flow Diagram for applying Mass and Energy Balances
To identify Process Variables
To define transport coefficients and transport resistances in a chemical process system
To formulate and solve steady-state heat conduction problems
To formulate and solve steady-state matter diffusion problems
To formulate and Solve Steady-State Motion Quantity Balance Problems
To formulate and Solve Convective and Conductive Transport Problems Together
To use an Industrial Chemical Process Simulator
To develop Engineering Calculations in a Spreadsheet
To study and experimentally evaluate transport mechanisms and properties
Lesson 1. Process Diagrams: Block Diagram and Flowchart. Steady-state mass balances based on a flow diagram: without chemical reaction, with chemical reaction, recirculation, recirculation and purge, multiphase system. Expressions of the energy balance. Systems with temperature variation. Systems with phase transition phase.
Systems with mixing and/or compound solution. Systems with chemical reaction.
Seminars associated with Lesson 1: Problem solving calculation problems will be proposed to the students. Use of Excel sheets.
Computer sessions: Simulation of a process using Hysys.
In the case of availability at the School of Engineering, students will carry out a technical visit. There will be a pre-visit seminar to analyse the technical aspects of the visit and an evaluable seminar after the visit.
In case of non-availability of the visit, an interactive activity with similar content will be proposed.
Lesson 2. Fourier's; Fick’s and Newton’s Laws. Transport coefficients.
Seminars associated with Lesson 2: -Problem solving calculation problems will be proposed to the students. Use of Excel sheets.
Experimental Laboratory sessions associated with Lesson 2: Experimental determination of transport coefficients
Lesson 3. Transport at the interface. Transfer coefficients. Resistances.
Seminars associated with Lesson 3: Problem solving calculation problems will be proposed to the students. Use of Excel sheets. Experimental Laboratory sessions associated with Lesson 3: Experimental determination of transfer coefficients
Basic
VAN DEN AKKER, H., MUDDE, R.F. Transport Phenomena. Delft Academic Press, 2014, ISBN: 978-90-6562-3584
Complementary
GEANKOPLIS, C.J. Transport phenomena and unit operations. Prentice Hall. ISBN: 0-13-045253-X.
Knowledge or content
Con17: Knowledge of mass and Energy Balances or Biotechnology or Matter Transfer, Separation Operations or Chemical Reaction Engineering or Reactor Design or Valorisation and Transformation of Raw Materials and Energy Resources.
Con18: Knowledge on basic and technological topics, which enables them to learn new methods and theories, and provides them with versatility to adapt to new situations.
Skills or abilities
H/D05: Ability to apply knowledge in practice. H/D09: Computer skills.
Competences
Comp05: Ability to: Analysis and design of processes and products or simulation and optimization of processes and products.
Comp06: Ability to design and manage applied experimentation procedures especially for: The determination of thermodynamic and transport properties, and modelling of phenomena and systems in the field of chemical engineering or systems with fluid flow, heat transfer or matter transfer operations or kinetics of chemical reactions and reactors.
Comp08: Ability to solve problems with initiative, decision-making, creativity, critical reasoning and to communicate and transmit knowledge, skills and abilities in the field of Industrial Engineering.
Traditional class. Face to face. Attendance is recommended but not mandatory.
Essential information will be provided will be structured, up-to-date and contextualized in the industrial environment, based on various textbooks and technological and scientific documentation. The basic format will be a PowerPoint presentation supported by multimedia resources to clarify the message.
Interactive seminar class. Face to face. Mandatory attendance with control.
In the seminars, three types of activities will be carried out: organizing knowledge of traditional class sessions, solving problems of application of the theory and, if the technical visit is feasible, prior preparation and subsequent evaluation will be carried out; If the technical visit is not feasible, an alternative and comparable activity will be proposed. Prior to each seminar, the work plan will be provided to the students. Students will submit the results of the seminars (numerical calculations and drafts of the supervised work) through the Virtual Campus for evaluation. Participation and discussion will be encouraged.
Interactive computer sessions. Face-to-face and compulsory. Attendance control.
Simulations with Hysys Software. Academically directed sessions will alternate with others of more independent work by the students. The work will be carried out individually and the simulation files will be delivered at the end of each session, through the Virtual Campus.
Interactive experimental laboratory sessions. Face-to-face and compulsory. Attendance control.
Teamwork will be carried out, consisting of experimental determinations in the laboratory using commercial equipment and non-commercial setups. Students will make a laboratory notebook, with the typical structure of this type of notebook, which can be in traditional format (paper) or digital format. (Institutional Account Notebook Applications). Students will submit an Excel spreadsheet with the calculations of each session.
Laboratory safety training will be provided. in accordance with the provisions of university regulations and the internal protocols of the ETSE
Group tutorship sessions. Face-to-face and compulsory. Attendance control. Complementary training activities will be developed that may include from personalized advice to attendance at conferences, forums, workshops and similar, depending on needs and availability.
Support to students in personalized tutorship sessions will be done according to their request (individual or in a study group). Recommended, but not mandatory. Face-to-face and virtual (MSTEAMS) at the request of students for better time management.
Continuous assessment: 50% Exam: 50%
First Chance Evaluation
Continuous assessment. Compulsory. It is not recoverable on the second chance.
In order to take into account, the marks of the practical part and the presential part of the seminar, a minimum of 40% of the maximum score in each item must be obtained.
Attendance at seminars and group tutorship sessions. Compulsory. 10 %. Related skills and competencies: H/D03, Cornp08.
Computer sessions. Compulsory. 10 %. H/D09. Related skills and competencies: Comp05.
Experimental laboratory. Obligatory. 30% (Notebook 10%. Spreadsheet 10%. Laboratory performance 10%). Related Skills & Competencies: Comp06
Examination. Obligatory
Theoretical and practical questions. 25 %. Related skills and competencies: Con17, Con18.
Practical exercises. 25%. Related skills and competencies: H/D05.
Second Chance Evaluation.
-The continuous evaluation mark will be kept
-The exam will have the same weight and format as at the first opportunity.
In cases of fraudulent completion of exercises or tests, the provisions of the Regulations for the Evaluation of Students' Academic Performance and the Review of Qualifications will be applied.
Face-to-face/ Personal work. In hours. Theoretical teaching 17 /100
Interactive Teaching Seminar/Technical Visit 7 / 100
Interactive Laboratory sessions 20 / 100 Interactive Teaching Computer sessions 7 / 100
Small Group tutorship sessions 1 / 100 Exam & Review 4 / 100
Students Personal work 94 / O
Study the material daily. Attend lectures.
Use the bibliography.
To have passed the course of Fundamentals of Chemical Processes I
The Moodle Virtual Classroom and the e-notebook of the institutional account will be used as a repository and to manage the deliverables.
Communication with students will be carried out through the message service of the Learning platform to keep record of it. No e-mail communication will be done.
Deliveries of assessable material via e-mail will not be accepted.
A classroom will be set up in MSTEAMS exclusively for tutoring support for students who request this option.
LANGUAGE: Galician/Spanish
RISK PREVENTION: the procedures established by the ETSE Management will be followed.
The admission and permanence of students enrolled in the laboratory session requires that they know and comply with the rules included in the Basic Training Protocol on Safety for Experimental Spaces of the School of Engineering, available in the security section of its website.
The PLAGIARISM REGULATIONS of the USC will apply.
This guide is offered in English only for information purposes; in case of any type of discrepancy, only those that appear in Galician or Spanish would be valid.
Maria Isabel Vidal Tato
Coordinador/a- Department
- Chemistry Engineering
- Area
- Chemical Engineering
- Phone
- 881816798
- isabel.vidal.tato [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Alberte Regueira Lopez
- Department
- Chemistry Engineering
- Area
- Chemical Engineering
- alberte.regueira [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: LOU (Organic Law for Universities) PhD Assistant Professor
Brais Vázquez Vázquez
- Department
- Chemistry Engineering
- Area
- Chemical Engineering
- braisvazquez.vazquez [at] usc.es
- Category
- USC Pre-doctoral Contract
Adrian Ferreiro Salgado
- Department
- Chemistry Engineering
- Area
- Chemical Engineering
- adrianferreiro.salgado [at] usc.es
- Category
- Ministry Pre-doctoral Contract
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