Course detail

Principles of Process Technologies

FSI-IPCAcad. year: 2011/2012

In the course the students are acquainted with the principles of chemical technology and factors affecting the results of chemical reactions. The students practice the material a energy balancing of chemical processes. In the range of inorganic technologies the processes for production of syngases and other important gases (H2, N2, O2, ammonia, chlorine, and the like), acids (H2SO4, HNO3, HCl), hydroxides (NaOH) and also metal production (Fe, alkaline metals) are discussed. The principles of waste water treatment and solid communal and hazardous wastes treatment and incineration are also discussed. In the range of industry of organic chemistry the topics discussed are in particular the technologies for crude oil treatment and natural gas exploitation, production plastics and fabric fibres. The types of equipment (heaters and heat exchangers, columns, reactors and the like) and procedures used in chemical technology are dealt with.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

4

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Ladislav Bébar, CSc.

Department

Institute of Process Engineering (ÚPI)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Knowledge of chemical technologies, balancing of chemical processes

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of chemistry (kinds of chemical bonds, concentration expressions, stechiometrical calculation). Basic knowledge of mathematics (algebraitic equation solution, simple differential equation solution).

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Graded course-unit credit requirements: active participation of students in exercises and working out a terminal project solving one of the main problems in the course. At the final examination students demonstrate the acquired knowledge.

Course curriculum

1. Raw materials for chemical industry
2. The basic technological processes and equipments in chemical industry
3. Material and energy balance of technological processes
4. Factors affecting the behaviour of chemical reactions I
5. Factors affecting the behaviour of chemical reactions II
6. Manufacture of syngases and other important gases
7. Natural gas treatment
8. H2SO4 and HNO3 manufacture
9. Metals manufacture (metallurgy, electrolytic processes)
10.Crude oil and petrochemical industry, the plastics manufacture
11.Treatment of the communal a hazardous wastes
12.Waste water treatment
13.Constructive materials manufacture

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

In the course the students are made familiar with the principles of chemical technology and factors affecting the results of chemical reactions as well as with the material a energy balancing of chemical processes. Students are acquainted with the typical processes and equipments used in the chemical industry


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

During the course there are 13 lectures (2 hours) and 13 exercises (1 hour). Students may receive the text of lectures in the electronic form. Attendance at seminars is checked.

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
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
Shackley, S., Gough, C., Carbon Capture and its Storage, An Integrated Assessment, 2006, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Aldershot, UK, ISBN:0 7546 4499 5

Recommended reading

A.I.Skoblo a kol.: Procesy a zařízení pro průmyslové zpracování ropy, SNTL, Praha, 1989, IBSN-80-03-00089-0
Kyzlink J.: Technologie chemických látek, I a II, VUTIUM, VUT v Brně,2001,ISBN 80-214-1875-3

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B2341-3 Bachelor's

    branch B-EPE , 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Lucie Houdková, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Raw materials for chemical industry
2. The basic technological processes and equipments in chemical industry
3. Material and energy balance of technological processes
4. Factors affecting the behaviour of chemical reactions I
5. Factors affecting the behaviour of chemical reactions II
6. Manufacture of syngases and other important gases
7. Natural gas treatment
8. H2SO4 and HNO3 manufacture
9. Metals manufacture (metallurgy, electrolytic processes)
10.Crude oil and petrochemical industry, the plastics manufacture
11.Treatment of the communal a hazardous wastes
12.Waste water treatment
13.Constructive materials manufacture


Exercise

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Jiří Kropáč, Ph.D.

Syllabus

The excercises are pracitised to the previous lectured problems, especially:
- Stochiometric calculations.
- Calculation of concentration, various concentration conversion.
- Mass and energetic balance of steady and unsteady systems with mass accumulation
- Application of gas state equations for ideal gases.
- Enthalpy and specific heat of gaseous a liquid systems calculation.
- Heat effects of reactons calculation.
- Equilibrium constants of chemical reaction calculations, influence of temperature and
pressure on the equilibrium composition of reactions.