Course detail

Systems Engineering II

FSI-KS2Acad. year: 2011/2012

The course extends the knowledge from previous partial subjects of the specialization. It presents the systematic survey of the most important process plants from main process industries (industry of complex crude-oil treatment and natural gas processing, chemical and petrochemical industry, cement and lime industry, food, pharmaceutical and cosmetics industry, ecological and special process plants) together with their brief historical development to present solutions. During the course the students obtain the base knowlegde of the chemical reaction kinetics and reactors designing. The important process plants are connected with series of examples and calculation solutions of concrete industrial applications. It enables to demonstrate the problematics of plants creation and complex evaluation of plants conception and possibilities, together with evaluation of individual equipment and its influence on plants characteristics.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Ladislav Bébar, CSc.

Department

Institute of Process Engineering (ÚPI)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Students will be able to apply the knowledge of physical and chemical regularities for conceptual design of technological process and make a qualified decision if more solutions appear.
They will have obtain an overview of chemical production and safety of environment.
The course objective is to make students familiar with the most important process plants, methodology of process plant creation, its balancing and complex evaluation of fitness for given intention


Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of process engineering especially knowledge physical chemistry, diffusion processes, termomechanics, heat and mass transfer and fluid flow.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Lessons are held in the computer laboratory. Attendance is checked.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Course-unit credit requirements: active participation of students in exercises and working out a term project solving one of the main problems of the course.
The examination consists of both written and oral parts. At the examination students demonstrate acquired knowledge.

Course curriculum

1. Introduction, the position of chemical industry in the CR and the raw material basis
2. Basic processes of the crude oil treatment and petrochemical industry
3. Basic processes in the other branches of chemical industry (food, pharmaceutical,cement industry, etc.)
4. Design principles of chosen equipments of chemical industry
5. Introduction into the reaction kinetics and reactor design

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The course objective is to make students familiar with the most important process plants, methodology of process plant creation, its balancing and complex evaluation of fitness for given intention. Students will be able to apply the knowledge of physical and chemical regularities to the conceptual design of a manufacturing line and make a qualified
decision if more solutions appear.

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

Lessons are held in the computer laboratory. Attendance at seminars is registered.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Felder R., M., Rosseau, R.,W., Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes, third edition, 2005, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken–NJ (USA), ISBN 0-471-68757-X (EN)
Santoleri J., J., Reynolds J. and Theodore L., Introduction to Hazardous Waste Incineration“, Second Edition, 2000, John Wiley & Sons, New York, ISBN 0-471-011790-6 (EN)
Shackley, S., Gough, C., Carbon Capture and its Storage, An Integrated Assessment, 2006, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Aldershot, UK, ISBN:0 7546 4499 5 (EN)

Recommended reading

Babinec, F.: Aplikovaná fyzikální chemie,VUT Brno, 1981
Kizlink, J.: Technologie chemických látek I. a II. díl, FCH, VUT Brno, 2001
Perry, J.: Chemical Engineers´ Handbook, Mc Graw Hill, New York, 1997

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme N2301-2 Master's

    branch M-PRI , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch M-PRI , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Ladislav Bébar, CSc.

Syllabus


1. Introduction to process plants-classification of technologies, position of chemical industry in the CR,raw materials for chemical industry.
2. Crude oil production and principal processes of the basic crude oil treatment (dewatering, distillation, hydrotreating, solvent treating)
3. Principal processes in the secondary and depth crude oil treatment (hydrocracking, catalytic cracking, catalytic reforming, partial oxidation, etc.)
4. Physical properties of crude oil fractions, their determination on the basis of
distillation analysis
5.Principles for heavy naphtha catalytic reforming process design, especially of the reactors, as an example of alternative technological line solution
6.Principal processes of the natural gas utilization and chemical treatment. Reaction conditions and principles for the design of equipment for natural gas steam reforming process for hydrogen or synthesis gas manufacture (ammonia, methanol) and fertilizer production.
7. Basic processes of the petrochemical industry, especially the light naphtha pyrolysis for ethylene and propylene production. Products of pyrolysis as a source for plastics manufacture
8. The technology and industrial plants for cement and lime manufacture.
9. Important plants for ecology and special production. Principal methods of the flue gas cleaning in the plants for gaseous or solid wastes incineration.
10.Specific aspects and problems of biotechnologies, consumer industry plants (glass, stoneware, paper and mill industry).
11. Important plants of food, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industry.
12. Introduction into the reaction kinetics a reactor design.
13. Basic charactersitics of the ideal types of chemical reactors (ideal mixed continual or batch reactors, reactor with the plug flow, working at the adiabatic a isothermal conditions) and principles of their desing

Computer-assisted exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Ladislav Bébar, CSc.

Syllabus

1)Process plant balance at steady state (crystallization).
2)Process plant balance at unsteady state. Calculation of the concentration changes during the time in some types of equiments.
3)Determination ofm the main physical and transporting features of the hydrocarbons and their mixtures, especially the crude oil fraction.
4)Analysis of the working conditions of the catalytic reforming process.
5)Marking of the measuring and controlling devices on the technological scheme.
6)Balance of the steam reforming process (primary reformer).
7)Balance of the steam reforming process (equilibrium of the shift reaction, balance of the shift reactor).
8)Balance of the proces of biomass gasification.
9)Balance the VENTURI scrubber for the incineration gas cleaning.
10)Calculation of the adibatic warming-up for the process of hydrocarbons catalytic oxidation
11)Calcultation of the degree of conversion during the process of catalytic oxidation in the various types of reactors.
12)Hydraulic desing of catalytic reactors with axial and radial fluid flow.
13)Application of the oxygen balance for flue-gas flow rate calculation.