Students will be able to:

• define the suitable apparatuses and unit operations needed for industrial process implementation

• define the key parameters of apparatuses, necessary for optimal functionality of process

• apply the Aspen Plus software in simulation of chemical technologies

R: R.Smith: Chemical Process: Design and Integration, John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2005, ISBN 9780471486817.

A: McCabe, W. L , Smith, J. C., Harriott, P.: Unit operations of chemical engineering, Boston : McGraw-Hill, 2005, ISBN 007-124710-6

Process equipment product brochures (distributed by lecturer).

Attendance at lectures and exercises.

1. On the process view of chemical production, know-how.

2. Selection of reactions‘ pathway, economical criterions, environmental protection.

3. Technological schema, mass and energy balance.

4. Application of design software.

5. Chemical reactors, membrane reactors and their models.

6. Pumps - characteristics and examples of selection.

7. Compression devices - characteristics, exhausters.

8. Filtration of suspensions, characteristics of filters and filtration membranes.

9. Energy exchange - heat exchangers and their characteristics.

10. Simulation of heat exchangers, design of optimal exchanger.

11. Rectification and pervaporation - the fundamentals, characteristics of columns.

12. Simulation of rectification and pervaporation.

13. Process control the regulation cycle, characteristics of regulators.

14. Examples of complex design of a concrete process.

The evaluation is based on the results of written exam, solution of homework and activity during lectures and exercises.