Course detail

Chemical Engineering I

FCH-BA_CHIN1Acad. year: 2025/2026

hemical and biochemical processes and apparatus fundamentals. Lectures are complemented by the computational and laboratory exercises. Mass balance, fluid flow, pumping, filtration, fluidization, mixing and particulate solids processing (characterisation of particulate systems, grain size measurment, comminution, separation, conveying systems, mechanics of particulate solids, storage systems).

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Jaromír Wasserbauer, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Materials Science (ÚCHM)

Offered to foreign students

The home faculty only

Entry knowledge

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.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Graded course-unit credit system. The student evaluation depends on the active attendance and the correctly solved separate numerical set of theoretical exerceces. The exam consists of the numerical part and the oral examination, studens have to show basic theoretical, numerical and practical knowledge in the branch. The use of defined literature materials in the numerical part of exem are allowed.
Partcipation on the prescribed Calculation exs, reports of all Calc. exs in the desiderative quality, the written part of Exam on the 32 points level min. of the 50poits sum-

Aims

Principals and mathematical apparatus of the basic chemical-engineering units in the area of Fluids and Particle Solids and the access to the industry process equipment.
Students will obtain the basic knowledge about the mathematical aparatus of the Fluids and Particle Solids Unit operations of Chemical Engineering which take place in the design and pass judgments of the separate processes of the chemical and other production technologies in the laboratory and production plant size as well.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Coulson J.M. Richardson J.F. Chemical Engineering, Butter worth Heinmann Oxford 2006. (EN)
Robert H. Perry: Perry's Chemical Engineers' Platinum Edition, McGraw-Hill Professional, 2012. (EN)

Type of course unit

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Jaromír Wasserbauer, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Chemical engineering calculation.
Balance of energy in the stream.
Presure drops in pipe-lines.
Pumping.
Processes of sedimentation.
Mixing.
Particle Solids.
Fluidization.
Filtration.
Heat transfer.
Heat conveying.
Evaporators.

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Jaromír Wasserbauer, Ph.D.

VUT

Faculties

University Institutes

Parts

Chemical Engineering I

Type of course unit