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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Process Engineering

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 617-3010/01
Abbreviation PI
Course title Process Engineering
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Chemistry
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Marek Večeř, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures
1. Balances, equilibrium, kinetics. Material balances
2. Balances of reacting systems,
3. Energy balances, Mechanical and thermal energy,
4. Fluid flow. pumps
5. Filtration and sedimentation, centrifuges
6. Mixing, fliudization
7. Adsorption, membranes
8. Energy balance, thermal processes
9. Conduction, convection, radiation, heat exchangers
10. Boiling and condenzation
11. Distillation, stagewise processes
12. Absorption
13. Wet air, drying
14. Introduction to chemical reactor theory

Computational exercises
1. The mass and mass balance.
2. The weight and mass balance of a chemical reaction.
3. Transport of fluids, continuity equation, Bernouli equation, energy dissipation, pressure loss.
4. Pumps and compressors.
5. Filtration and sedimentation.
6. Control test I.
7. Sharing heat and energy balance.
8. The control and design calculation of the heat exchanger.
9. Plants for evaporating.
10. Drying.
11. Distillation.
12. Consultations semester programs.
13. Test II.

Literature

COULSON, John Metcalfe a John Francis RICHARDSON. Chemical engineering. Volume 1, Fluid flow, heat transfer and mass transfer. 4th ed. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1990. ISBN 0-08-037948-6.
COULSON, John Metcalfe, John Francis RICHARDSON, J. R. BACKHURST a John Hadlett HARKER. Chemical engineering. Volume 5, Solutions to the problems in chemical engineering, volume 2. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1979. ISBN 0-08-022952-2.
FELDER, Richard M. a Ronald W. ROUSSEAU. Elementary principles of chemical processes [CD-ROM]. 3rd ed. Hoboken: Wiley, c2000. ISBN 0-471-37587-X.

Advised literature

GREEN, Don W. a Robert H. PERRY, ed. Perry's Chemical engineers' handbook. 8th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, c2008. ISBN 978-0-07-142294-9.