Course detail
Automation and Digitization in Chemical Engineering
FCH-MC_ADCAcad. year: 2022/2023
Principles and advanced mathematical procedures of chemical engineering. Design of technological equipment used in the realization of chemical engineering processes in industrial processes. Simultaneous sensing and processing of process quantities in chemical engineering processes using current computer technology. Fundamentals of designing, automation and robotization in chemical and new materials production.
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
Prerequisites
Physics - fundamentals of mechanics, hydrodynamics, thermodynamics and diffusion processes;
Chemical engineering of heat and mass transfer calculations.
Co-requisites
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
For the written part of the exam, the literature designated by the examiner can be used.
Course curriculum
Advanced Chemical Engineering operations:
1. Non-stationary heat conduction;
2. Kinetics of absorption processes;
3. Chemisorption;
4. Membrane processes;
Chemical engineering calculation conducted in a special SW (ChemCad, for example):
5. Calculations of fluid and gas flow;
6. Modeling of liquid-gas mass sharing;
7. Calculations of heat transfer;
Basics of designing:
8. and 9. Sorting of project level and process assignment of process variables;
Fundamentals of automation and robotization of chemical processes and production of new materials:
10. Design of automatic measurement and control of technological processes and bioprocesses;
11. Design of control systems based on artificial intelligence;
12. Design of methods of signal and image analysis, Statistical data analysis, Analysis of random dynamic processes;
13. Industry Program 4.0, Human-Robot Collaboration - HRC, collaborative technology, edge computing, cyber security.
Work placements
Aims
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Recommended optional programme components
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Gavin Towler: Chemical Engineering Design, Principles, Practice and Economics of Plant and Process Design, Elsevier 2012, ISBN: 978-0-08-096659-5 (EN)
Robert H. Perry: Perry's Chemical Engineers' Platinum Edition, McGraw-Hill Professional, 1999 (EN)
Recommended reading
Elearning
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme NKCP_ECHT Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
- Programme NPCP_ECHT Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
- Programme NKCP_CHTM Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
- Programme NPCP_CHTM Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
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Guided consultation in combined form of studies
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Elearning