Course detail

Laboratory Classes in Chemical Engineering

FCH-BCA_CHI1_PAcad. year: 2011/2012

Chemical engineering processes of sedimentation, pumping, heat transfer, drying, mixing, milling, presure drops in pipe-lines, fluidisation, powder conveying, grain size separation, air cooling, two-phases flow, filtration, cavitation, evaporation kinetics and air flow dynamics in pilot-size apparatus.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. Ing. Tomáš Svěrák, CSc.

Department

Institute of Materials Science (ÚCHM)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Student will obtain basic habits and skills in the process of data pick-up, transmission and processing on the pilot plant equipment;

Prerequisites

Mathematics - vector algebra, differentials and integrals basis;
Physics - basis of mass point, hydrodynamics, thermodynamics and diffusion basis;
Instumentaions - physics quantities measurement, transmission and processing;
Chemical engineering I and II.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Couples of students make their measurement on separeted experimental posts independently and they start after student´s measurement readiness approving by their teacher. Students are obliged to present the measurement report for acceptance in the next Practical term.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Graded course-unit credit system. The student evaluation depends on the prescribed measurement attendance, the measured process knowledge, measurement skills and self-activities, the report term and quality elaboration. The student credit is condicioned by the possible reimburse payment. The measurment in the alternate term is possible in the very limited terms.

Course curriculum

0) Rules of the safety work in the Chemical engineering lab;
1) Processes of sedimentation;
2) Pumping;
3) Heat transfer F-F (in the tube in tube exchanger);
4) Drying;
5) Mixing;
6) Milling and Separation on sieves;
7) Presure drops in pipe-lines;
8) Fluidisation;
9) Screw feeder powder conveying and Grain size air separation;
10) Air cooling;
11) Two-phases flow;
12) Filtration,;
13) Cavitation;
14) Evaporation kinetics;
15) Air flow kinetics;

Note: The real order of measurement of the separate couples of students on the 1) - 15) posts will determine the teacher

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The Chemical Engineering Unit operations theoretical formula validation on the pilot-plant laboratory equipment.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Partcipation on the prescribed measurements, report elaborations of all measurements in the desiderative quality.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Himmelblau D. M. : Basic Principles and Calculations in Chemical Engineering. Fifth Edition, Prentice-Hall International, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 1989. ISBN 0-13-066086-6. (CS)

Type of course unit

Laboratory exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. Tomáš Svěrák, CSc.
Ing. Zdeněk Němec, CSc.
doc. Ing. Tomáš Opravil, Ph.D.
Ing. Jan Baráček, Ph.D.

VUT

Faculties

University Institutes

Parts

Laboratory Classes in Chemical Engineering

Type of course unit