Educational guide 2023_24 Escola de Enxeñaría Industrial

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
Introduction	Chemical Engineering. Basic principles. Chemical processes. Unit conversion and calculation tools
Mass and energy balances	Mass balances for systems without chemical reaction. Mass balances for systems with chemical reaction. Energy balances
Implementation of balances into chemical reactor design	Stoichiometry. Reaction rate. Ideal reactors
Mass transfer	Introduction. Mass transfer equations: individual and global coefficients
Distillation and rectification of liquid mixtures	Vapour–liquid equilibrium. Simple distillation. Rectification. Azeotropic and extractive distillation.
Liquid-liquid extraction	Fundamentals. Binary and ternary mixtures. Factors that affect the separation. Operation by simple contact, multiple contact in direct current, multiple contact in multiple countercurrent
Other operations in chemical processes	Gas absorption. Liquid-solid extraction. Adsorption and ion exchange.