Course detail
Automation and Digitization in Chemical Engineering
FCH-MC_ADCAcad. year: 2023/2024
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.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Department
Entry knowledge
Physics - fundamentals of mechanics, hydrodynamics, thermodynamics and diffusion processes;
Chemical engineering of heat and mass transfer calculations.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
For the written part of the exam, the literature designated by the examiner can be used.
Participation on lectures and computational exercises; elaboration of individual assignments.
Aims
Students will acquire advanced knowledge of selected Unit Operations of Thermal Processes and Diffusion Processes of Chemical Engineering which are used in the design and assessment of individual process nodes in the practice of chemical and other productions on a laboratory scale and in industrial practice. Students will be acquainted with computational methods on specialized SW on which chemical engineering processes are routinely assessed in practice. Students will be acquainted with the current possibilities of sensing and evaluation of process quantities, with the possibility of automatic control and management of chemical engineering processes, as well as with the possibilities of robotization in this area.
Study aids
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 NKCP_CHTM Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
- Programme NPCP_ECHT Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
- Programme NPCP_CHTM Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
Type of course unit
Lecture
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
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.
Guided consultation in combined form of studies
Teacher / Lecturer
Elearning