Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2502444 Chemistry | OB | 2 | 1 |
No official requirements are defined for this course. However, we strongly recommend that the student has passed the first year courses Chemistry Fundamentals and Mathematics.
The general aim in this course is that the student gains skills allowing for identification, mathematical formulation and problem solving of basic problems in Chemical Engineering. Specifically, the student has to be able of:
Building and solving mass and energy balances in systems with and without chemical reaction under diverse conditions of operation (continuous/batch, steady state/transient state)
Conducting basic design of chemical reactors operating in continuous and batch mode, under isothermal or adiabatic conditions
Acquiring basic notions of the unit operations in chemical engineering and their application at industrial level
1. Chemical process and chemical industry. Introduction to Chemical Engineering.
2. Mass and energy balances. Total mass balance. Mass balance without chemical reaction at steady state. Mass balance without chemical reaction in transient state. Mass balance with chemical reaction. Total energy balance. Mechanical energy balance. Heat energy balance.
3. Chemical reactor design. Reaction rate. Stirred batch reactor. Continuous stirred tank reactor. Plug flow reactor. Comparing ideal reactors. Adiabatic conversion for steady state systems.
4. Unit operations. Operations based on movement transport. Operations based on energy transport. Operations based on mass transport.
Lectures: students receive a set of, on one hand, theoretical concepts, and on the other hand practical skills for solving examples or easy problems. This learning will provide the basics for understanding the course, problem solving and laboratory practicals.
Workshops: In these sessions the students will practice the concepts and skills acquired during the lectures. Small groups will easy the participation of the students in the problem solving process.
Laboratory practicals: familiarization with the experimental methods used in Chemical Engineering to learn how to operate equipment of industrial application.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Lectures | 30 | 1.2 | 5, 6, 7, 9, 8, 23, 10, 13, 19 |
Problems whorkshop | 12 | 0.48 | 15, 9, 8, 23, 3, 17, 18, 19, 20, 12, 24 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Laboratory practicals | 26 | 1.04 | 1, 23, 14, 21, 18, 20, 25 |
Practicals report writing | 20 | 0.8 | 15, 4, 7, 3, 10, 17, 14, 19, 20, 12, 25, 24 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Problem solving | 40 | 1.6 | 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 12, 24 |
Team working | 13 | 0.52 | 15, 4, 9, 23, 3, 16, 17, 19, 20, 12, 25, 24 |
1. Individual grade: in this part the acquired skills will be evaluated for both theoretical concepts and problem solving.
The student can choose between obtaining the final grade from the marks of the partial exams or from the final test. In case the final test is chosen, the student must have been previously evaluated with a fraction of the activities of at least 2/3 of the final mark.
1.1. Two partial exams: each partial exam will contain problem solving and theoretical questions.
1.2. Final test: it consists of problem solving and theoretical questions covering the whole course.
2. Grading assigned problems: Problem solving for some specific problems will be graded as 10 % of the final course mark.
3. Practical grading: The laboratory practicals are of mandatory attendance. They will be grade with a written report derived from the laboratory experiments and it will consist of a multiplicative factor applied to the final course score. This coefficient ranges from 0.9 to 1.1.
Student passing the course: Students will pass the course with a final score of 5/10.
The qualification Not gradable will be given to students who did not pass the course with the partial exams and not attending to the final test.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Final Test | 0.9 | 3 | 0.12 | 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 23, 3, 10, 19, 20, 12 |
Partial Exam II | 0.5*0.9 | 3 | 0.12 | 4, 5, 6, 7, 23, 10, 19 |
Partial Test I | 0.5*0.9 | 3 | 0.12 | 9, 8, 3, 10, 17, 19, 20, 12 |
Practicals report | Multiplicative factor [0.9-1.1] | 0 | 0 | 1, 15, 4, 23, 13, 14, 11, 21, 18, 19, 12, 25, 24 |
Team working | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 15, 22, 9, 3, 16, 17, 2, 19, 20, 12, 25, 24 |
AUTHOR Aucejo A., Benaiges D., Berna, A., Sanchotello M., Solà C.
TITTLE Introducció a l'Enginyeria Química
PUBLISHED Pòrtic. Biblioteca Universitària. 1ª ed. Barcelona (1999).
AUTHOR Himmelblau D.M.
TITTLE Balances de materia y energía
PUBLISHED Prentice-Hall Hispanoamericana. 4ª ed. México (1988).
There is not specific software in this course.