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Process Engineering

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction Czech
Code 651-0915/01
Abbreviation PI
Course title Process Engineering
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Chemistry and Physico-Chemical Processes
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Marek Večeř, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Material and energy balancing of technological processes. Phase equilibria in multicomponent and multiphase systems. Application of transport phenomena in engineering modeling. Fluid mechanics, flow in pipes, pumping. Separation of two-phase mixtures, settling, and filtration. Surface phenomena, adsorption, membrane processes. Heat transfer in flowing fluids. Heat transfer with phase change. Phase contacting, dispersion, mixing, fluidization. Countercurrent heat and mass exchange systems, distillation, absorption, extraction. Water - air system, drying, cooling.

Literature

McCABE, W.L., SMITH, J.C., HARRIOTT, P. Unit operations of chemical engineering. 4th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1985.
FELDER, R.M., ROUSSEAU, R.W. Elementary principles of chemical processes. 3rd ed., Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2005. RICHARDSON, J.F., COULSON, J.M. Coulson & Richardson's chemical engineering. Vol. 1 and 2., Oxford; Boston: Butterworth-Heineman, 2002

Advised literature

PERRY, R.H., GREEN, D.W. Perry's chemical engineers' handbook. 8th ed., New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008.
BAFRNEC, M., BÁLEŠ, V., LANGFELDER, I., LONGAUER, J. Chemické inžinierstvo I. Bratislava: Malé centrum, 1999.
DOJČANSKÝ, J., LONGAUER, J. Chemické inžinierstvo II. Bratislava: Malé centrum, 2000
WANKAT, P.C. Separation process engineering. 2nd ed., Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hal, 2007.
SEADER, J.D., HENLEY, E.J. Separation process principles. 2nd ed. , Chichester ; Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, 2005.