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Course, academic year 2023/2024
  
Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering III - AM409001
Title: Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering III
Guaranteed by: Department of Chemical Engineering (409)
Faculty: Faculty of Chemical Engineering
Actual: from 2019
Semester: winter
Points: winter s.:5
E-Credits: winter s.:5
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/2, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited / 25 (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
For type: Master's (post-Bachelor)
Additional information: http://www.vscht.cz/uchi
Guarantor: Štěpánek František prof. Ing. Ph.D.
Interchangeability : M409001, N409021, S409021
Is interchangeable with: M409001
This subject contains the following additional online materials
Annotation -
Last update: Kubová Petra Ing. (22.01.2018)
The course covers the fundamentals of unit operations involving particulate solids (characterisation, agglomeration, comminution, dissolution, powder flow, fluid-solid separation), as well as rate-based separation processes, namely adsorption and crystallization. The concept of population balances is introduced.
Aim of the course -
Last update: Kubová Petra Ing. (22.01.2018)

After completing the course, the student will be able to:

  • Perform basic design and analytical calculations related to the covered unit operations
  • Make rational selection of process alternatives and quantify the influence of material properties and process parameters on the process performance
  • Formulate and apply population balances to describe chemical engineering phenomena with a distribution of properties
Literature -
Last update: Kubová Petra Ing. (22.01.2018)

R: J.F. Rchardson et al., Coulson & Richardson's Chemical Engineering Vol. 2, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002

R: J.R. Couper et al., Chemical Process Equipment Selection and Design, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2010

Learning resources -
Last update: Kubová Petra Ing. (22.01.2018)

http://www.vscht.cz/uchi/ped/mgr01.html

Syllabus -
Last update: Kubová Petra Ing. (22.01.2018)

1. Granular matter, particle and particle systems characterization, size distribution measurement

2. Crystallisation I: phase equilibria, nucleation and growth kinetics, crystalliser types and operation

3. Crystallisation II: population balance of a MSMPR and a batch crystalliser

4. Dissolution, shrinking core and disintegration mechanisms

5. Powder statics and dynamics, force balance in a granular system, powder storage and transport

6. Homogenisation and blending of powders

7. Dispergation of powders in liquids

8. Classification and separation of particles, cyclone, hindered settling

9. Particle breakage, population balance of a mill circuit with recycle

10. Agglomeration, wet granulation, Stokes number analysis, population balance

11. Adsorption I: phase equilibria, mass balance, shock wave propagation

12. Adsorption II: non isothermal adsorption, enthalpy balance, adsorbent bed regeneration, PSA

13. Particle formation by spray drying

14. Industrial case study

Registration requirements -
Last update: Kubová Petra Ing. (22.01.2018)

Chemical Engineering I and II (or A and B)

Teaching methods
Activity Credits Hours
Účast na přednáškách 1 28
Příprava na přednášky, semináře, laboratoře, exkurzi nebo praxi 2 56
Příprava na zkoušku a její absolvování 1 28
Účast na seminářích 1 28
5 / 5 140 / 140
 
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