Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering III - M409001
Title: Chemické inženýrství 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 / unlimited (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Additional information: http://www.vscht.cz/uchi
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Štěpánek František prof. Ing. Ph.D.
Basařová Pavlína doc. Dr. Ing.
Grof Zdeněk doc. Ing. Ph.D.
Interchangeability : AM409001, N409021
Is interchangeable with: AM409001
Examination dates   
This subject contains the following additional online materials
Annotation -
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.
Last update: Hladíková Jana (15.01.2018)
Aim of the course -

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
Last update: Hladíková Jana (15.01.2018)
Literature -

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

Last update: Hladíková Jana (15.01.2018)
Syllabus -

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

Last update: Hladíková Jana (15.01.2018)
Learning resources -

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

Last update: Hladíková Jana (15.01.2018)
Registration requirements -

Chemical Engineering I and II (or A and B)

Last update: Hladíková Jana (15.01.2018)
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
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