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Introduction to Chemical Engineering

Type of study BachelorFollow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 651-2042/01
Abbreviation ZCHI
Course title Introduction to Chemical Engineering
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Chemistry and Physico-Chemical Processes
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Marek Večeř, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
1. The subject of Chemical Engineering. Balance, equilibrium, kinetics. Conservation laws. Balanceable quantities, balance system, balance period. Inputs, outputs, accumulation, transformation.
2. Mass balancer. Extensive and intensive quantities. Density, concentration, gas laws. Balance of chemical reaction systems. Fictitious currents, stoichiometry.
3. Energy balance. Types of energy and transformation. The mechanical energy in a liquid environment. Kinetic, potential and pressure energy. Bernoulli's equation. Pressure loss. Pipe flow. Friction coefficient, resistance coefficient. Laminar and turbulent flow, Reynolds number. Roughness. Composition of flow resistances.
4. Supply of mechanical energy. Pumps. Positive displacement pumps, principles, design and operating peculiarities. Hydrodynamic pumps, principles, design and operating peculiarities of centrifugal pumps. Partitioning of solid-liquid mixtures. Filtration. Principle of cake filtration and quantities on which the filtration rate depends.
5. Filtration tests. Filtration with constant speed, pressure drop, pump characteristics. Industrial filters, nut, filter press. Sedimentation. Sedimentation, balance, suspension, sediment. Drop velocity of the particle. Ball fall - the influence of inertia forces, viscosity. Dimensional analysis, Reynolds number, resistance coefficient. Stokes law. Constant resistance.
6. Centrifugal force. Sedimentation centrifuge, current separator. Filtration centrifuge. Liquid retention in filter cake and sediment. Disturbed settling. Compaction of sediment. Dorr's settler. Sorting of particles based on different settling rates.
7. High and low-speed stirrers. Power input of stirrers. Suspendace. Fluidization. Threshold speed, drift speed.
8. Energy balance. Heat as a form of energy. Heat and temperature. Conservation laws, the definition of enthalpy. Significant elements in thermodynamic considerations. Heat capacity, enthalpy of phase and chemical changes. Engineering expression per unit of mass. Heat sources. Heat transfer. Heat, heat flux, heat flux density. Heat transfer coefficient. Conduction, radiation, convection. Thermal conductivity, Fourier's law. Composite material. Kirchhoff's laws. Temperature measurement.
9. Forced, and Free convection. Dimensional analysis, film theory. Nusselt number. Prandtl number. Grashoff number. Criterial equations. When radiation occurs. Radiation heat transfer patterns. Care. Negligence of some thermal resistances. Set temperature, set heat flow.
10. Stage devices. The equivalent stage for the Heat transfer unit. Co-current, counter-current heat exchanger. Thermal balance - driving force. Mass transfer gear unit.
11. Vapor pressure. Isobaric evaporation into the air. Evaporative heat. Boiling and condensation. Bubble and membrane boiling. Drop and film condensation. Steam heating. Multistage evaporator. Boiling under reduced pressure. Heat pump. Linde's column.
12. Overview of diffusion separation processes (distillation, absorption, stripping, extraction, adsorption, membrane separation, leaching, chromatography, etc.), equipment description and basic principles of the processes.
13. Liquid vapor equilibrium. Raoult's law. Classification of distillation processes. Equilibrium distillation. Repeated distillation. Principle of continuous rectification column. Injection, distillate, residue. Backflow. HETP height of the equivalent theoretical plate. Contacting gas with liquid. Tray and packed-bed columns.
14. Wet air. Saturated air. Absolute humidity. Relative humidity. Humidity measurement. Enthalpy of humid air. Wet air diagram. The moisture of solid and porous materials. Equilibrium humidity. The driving force of drying. Balance drying. Drying speed. Dryers. Air humidification. Water cooling by air. Cooling towers.

Computational exercises:
1. Mass and mass balance.
2. Mass and mass balance with chemical reaction.
3. Fluid transport, continuity equation, Bernoulli's equation, dissipation energy, pressure drop.
4. Pumps and compressors.
5. Filtration and sedimentation.
6. Check test I.
7. Heat transport and energy balance.
8. Rating and design calculation of heat exchangers.
9. Evaporators.
10. Drying.
11. Distillation and Rectification.
12. Absorption and Adsorption.
13. Extraction
14. Control test II.

Literature

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.