Guia docente 2016_17
Facultad de Ciencias
Grao en Enxeñaría Agraria
 Subjects
  Introduction to chemical engineering
   Contents
Topic Sub-topic
THEME 1) Introduction 1. Definitions concerning Chemical Engineering
2. Chemical Industry and Unit Operations
3. Clasification of Unit Operations
THEME 2) Physical-Mathematical utilities 1. Units and related issues
2. Methods for equation resolution
3. Linear regression
4. Numerical Integration.
5. Graphical diferentiation
6. Triangular diagram
THEME 3) Conservation laws. General Balance Formulation 1. Conservation laws for mass, energy and momentun
2. Macroscopic and y microscopic systems
3. Property streams: Definition and clasification
4. Property transport: General concepts
5. General Balance equation
THEME 4) Material Balances 1. Introduction to the material balances
2. Monophasic Systems
2.1. Study in stationary state
2.2. Study in non stationary state
3. Biphasic systems under thermodynamic equilibrium and stationary state
THEME 5) Energy Balances 1. Therms present in the macroscopic energy balance
2. Macroscopic Systems
2.1. Systems in stationary state
2.2. Systems in non stationary state
3. Enthalpy Balance
3.1. Non-reactant Systems
3.2. Reactant Systems under stationary state
3.2.1. Entalphies of reaction
3.2.2. Thermodynamic Cycles
THEME 6) Chemical kinetics and ideal reactors 1. Chemical kinetics
2. Reaction rate
3. Reversibility of chemical reactions
4. Reaction rate equation
5. Analysis of chemical kinetic equation: application to constant volume systems
5.1. Integral method
5.2. Differential method
5.3. Initial rate method
6. Study of ideal isothermic reactors
6.1. Batch Reactor
6.2. Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor (CSTR)
6.3. Plug Flow Reactor (PFR)
THEME 7) Introduction to process control 1. Definitions and basic concepts
2. Process control strategies: Feedback, feedforward and cascade control
3. Instrumentation
4. Analysis and design of control systems
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