| Economics of industrial chemical processes. |
Budget preparation . Analysis of costs and benefits. Economic viability criteria: Net Present Value, Internal Rate of Return, Return time. |
| Relevant industrial chemical processes: the industry of aluminum, paper, oil refining and biofuels. |
- The aluminium industry: raw materials and properties, alumina manufacture, the Bayer process.
- The paper industry: methods for pulp production, different technologies for the manufacture of paper, environmental issues, recycling of paper.
- Petrochemistry: introduction to the petrochemical industry, general process flowsheet of a petrochemical refinery, different
technologies for the transformation of crude oil to obtain added-value products.
- Introduction to biotechnological processes: fundamental stages, conditioning of raw materials, biological reaction and recovery
of products.
- Biofuels: general characteristics and legal context, advantages, production of biodiesel and stages of the process, production of bioethanol and comparison of production strategies, production and applications of biogas. |
