Guia docente 2023_24 Escuela de Ingeniería de Minas y Energía

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
1. Introduction	Introduction. General concepts
2. Material and energy balances	Material balances in systems with and without chemical reaction. Energy balances in systems with and without chemical reaction.
3. Separation operations	Destillation. Rectification Liquid-liquid extraction Absorption
4. Introduction to chemical reactors	Design of ideal chemical reactors
5. Natural gas and petroleum refining.	Natural gas: constitution and conditioning. Petroleum characterization. Fractionation, cracking, reforming, alkylation and coking. Products mixture.
Petrochemical processes	Main compounds derived from methane, ethene, propene and benzene.
7. Coal processes	Technological use of coal: pyrolysis, gasification, etc.