Course detail

Chemical Engineering Calculation I

FCH-MAO_CEE_1Acad. year: 2021/2022

Chemical and biochemical processes and apparatus fundamentals. Lectures are complemented by the computational and laboratory exercises. Mass balance, fluid flow, pumping, filtration, fluidization, mixing and particulate solids processing (characterisation of particulate systems, grain size measurment, comminution, separation, conveying systems, mechanics of particulate solids, storage systems).

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. Ing. Tomáš Svěrák, CSc.

Department

Institute of Materials Science (ÚCHM)

Offered to foreign students

Of all faculties

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Students will obtain the basic knowledge about the mathematical aparatus of the Fluids and Particle Solids Unit operations of Chemical Engineering which take place in the design and pass judgments of the separate processes of the chemical and other production technologies in the laboratory and production plant size as well.

Prerequisites

Mathematics - vector algebra, differentials and integrals basis; EXCEL use;
Physics - basis of mass point, hydrodynamics, thermodynamics and diffusion basis;
Instumentaions - physics quantities measurement, transmission and processing;

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course uses teaching methods in form of individual consultation. The e-learning system (LMS Moodle) is available to teachers and students.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Graded course-unit credit system. The student evaluation depends on the active attendance and the correctly solved separate numerical set of calculation exerceces. The exam consists of the oral examination, studens have to show basic theoretical, numerical and practical knowledge in the branch of chemical engineering praxis.

Course curriculum

Chemical engineering calculation;
Balance of energy in the stream;
Presure drops in pipe-lines;
Pumping;
Processes of sedimentation;
Mixing;
Particle Solids;
Fluidization;
Filtration;
Heat transfer;
Heat conveying;
Evaporators;

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Principals and mathematical apparatus of the basic chemical-engineering units in the area of Fluids and Particle Solids and the access to the industry process equipment.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Partcipation on the prescribed Calculation exs, reports of all Calc. exs in the desiderative quality.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Frank Kreith, Mark S. Bohn: Principles of heat transfer, Brooks/Cole,Thompson Learning, VI. edition, 2006, ISBN 0-534-37596-0 (EN)
Gavin Towler: Chemical Engineering Design, Principles, Practice and Economics of Plant and Process Design, Elsevier 2012, ISBN: 978-0-08-096659-5 (EN)
"Himmelblau D. M. : Basic Principles and Calculations in Chemical Engineering. Fifth Edition, Prentice-Hall International, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 1989. ISBN 0-13-066086-6." "2006" "2011" "1" "základní" (EN)
Leon P. Berton: Chemical Engineering Research Trends , NOVA Publishers, 2007 (EN)
Robert H. Perry : Perry's Chemical Engineers' Platinum Edition, McGraw-Hill Professional, 1999 (EN)

Type of course unit

Guided consultation in combined form of studies

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. Tomáš Svěrák, CSc.