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Course, academic year 2023/2024
  
Chemical Engineering III - S409021
Title: Chemical Engineering III
Guaranteed by: Department of Chemical Engineering (409)
Faculty: Faculty of Chemical Engineering
Actual: from 2022
Semester: winter
Points: winter s.:5
E-Credits: winter s.:5
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/2, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Is provided by: AM409001
For type:  
Guarantor: Štěpánek František prof. Ing. Ph.D.
Interchangeability : N409021
Is interchangeable with: N409021, AM409001
Examination dates   Schedule   
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: Štěpánek František (19.11.2012)
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: Štěpánek František (01.10.2013)
Literature -

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

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

Z: R. Holdich, Fundamentals of Particle Technology (available on-line at http://particles.org.uk/particle_technology_book/index.htm)

Last update: Štěpánek František (04.06.2015)
Learning resources -

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

Last update: Štěpánek František (19.11.2012)
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: Štěpánek František (19.11.2012)
Registration requirements -

Chemical Engineering I and II (or A and B)

Last update: Štěpánek František (30.09.2013)
Course completion requirements -

assessment, exam

Last update: Štěpánek František (01.01.2018)
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
5 / 5 140 / 140
Coursework assessment
Form Significance
Oral examination 50

 
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