Terminated in academic year 2021/2022

Process Engineering I

Type of study	Follow-up Master
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	619-3023/01
Abbreviation	PI I
Course title	Process Engineering I
Credits	7
Coordinating department	Department of Physical Chemistry and Theory of Technological Processes
Course coordinator	prof. Ing. Lucie Obalová, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Vapor – liquid phase equilibrium. Real mixtures. Energy and massbalances.
Flash distillation.
2. Rectification. Feed, distillate, bottoms. Balance of column and stage.
Reflux, McCabe-Thiele method.
3. Experimental condition for rectification. Boilers, design and operation.
Condensers, Assumption of process heat duties. multicomponent
rectification.
4. Rectification columns. Stage columns, distillate rate, design
calculations. Process efficiency.
5. Mass transfer driving forces. Mass transfer coefficient in liquids and
gasses. Overall mass transfer coefficient. Interfacial area, etc.
6. Absorption. Henry law. Effect of temperature. Operating line. Transfer
unit and relation to the real stage. Multicomponent absorption.
7. Packed bed columns. Packing and packed bed columns design.
8. Liquid extraction in system of two immiscible solvents. Phase equilibrium.
Efficiency of non-equilibrium stage.
9. Graphical and numerical solution of individual and cascade extraction.
Extractor design.
10. Diffusion in gasses, liquids solids and porous materials.
11. Adsorption. Adsorption isotherm. Adsorption kinetics. Desorption.
Pressure swing adsorption. Temperature swing adsorption. Chromatography.
Diffusivity.
12. Membrane separation. Types of membrane processes, ultrafiltration,
dialysis, electro-dialysis, reverse osmosis, pervaporation.
13. Problems summary and repetition.

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.

FELDER, Richard M. a Ronald W. ROUSSEAU. Elementary principles of chemical processes. 3rd ed. Hoboken: Wiley, c2000. ISBN 0-471-37587-X.

Advised literature

MCCABE, Warren Lee, Julian Cleveland SMITH a Peter HARRIOTT. Unit operations of chemical engineering. 7th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, c2005. ISBN 0-07-124710-6.
Dostupné též z:
https://www.amazon.com/Unit-Operations-Chemical-Engineering-McGraw/dp/0072848235

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.

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